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All posts by Natalie Zutter
Reverse Pop Culture Primer: The Usual Suspects vs. Every Reference To Keyser Söze Ever
Welcome to Reverse Pop Culture Primer! Every week I take a famous catchphrase, punchline, or spoiler that I learned from another part of pop culture without ever seeing the movie it references. How does knowing the joke backwards affect my experience of the mo...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Food and Sex Scenes To Test Your Limits
Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...
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‘Supporting Characters’ is a Charming Millennial Indie About Who You Can and Can’t Edit Out Of Your Life
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Sometimes the most difficult reviews to write are of the movies you like the most. Consider that mere hours after I suffered through Movie 43, I could spit out a scathing takedown. But for every agonizing attempt at humor like Movie 43, there's a true co...
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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: Scream vs. Boy Meets World
Welcome to Reverse Pop Culture Primer! Every week I take a famous catchphrase, punchline, or spoiler that I learned from another part of pop culture without ever seeing the movie it references. How does knowing the joke backwards affect my experience of the mo...
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Interview: Supporting Characters Writer-Director Daniel Schechter On Making An Autobiographical Indie Drama Without Descending To Vanity Project
To be honest, I had never heard of the new indie Supporting Characters, about film editor team Nick (Girls' Alex Karpovsky) and Daryl (Tarik Lowe) struggling to save a flagging indie film while also living vicariously through each other's romantic relationship...
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Movie 43: A Bigger Waste Of The Audience’s Money Or The Actors’ Time?
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I'm usually very forgiving with bad movies. My top 10 list each year usually includes one stinker because I value pure entertainment, even if that means I'm screaming with disgust or laughing at wooden acting. But not even I can pardon Movie 43, the utte...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Unrealistic Movie Musical Numbers To Test Your Limits
Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...
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NYC Top 5 (Week of 1/21/13-1/27/13)
New York City may get all the new releases first, but there’s a lot more to the film culture here than just what’s in the mainstream theaters! Every week we bring you the top 5 cinematic events to check out.
1. An Evening Celebrating New Cinema From Haiti (FI...
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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: Alfred Hitchcock vs. ‘High Anxiety’
Welcome to Reverse Pop Culture Primer! Every week I take a famous catchphrase, punchline, or spoiler that I learned from another part of pop culture without ever seeing the movie it references. How does knowing the joke backwards affect my experience of the mo...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Weepy Films To Test Your Limits
Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...
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