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“Nas: Time Is Illmatic”
Jay-Z may have laid claim to the title The Blueprint, but Illmatic remains the truest Rosetta stone of hip-hop, dictating the shape and methods that the genre would take in the coming decades. A twenty-year-old Nas wrote the Great American Rap Album in 1994 by...
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Love and Down’s Syndrome Battle In “Yo, también”
This Spanish coming-of-age romance about a man with Down's syndrome approaches its subject with respectful, nuanced grace.
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“Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas” Is A Subversive Revenge Tale
Heinrich von Kleist's novella about the legend of Michael Kohlhaas is considered one of the first examples of modern literature. Kohlhaas is a hero of 16th Century Germany, but his name isn't as instantly recognizable as someone like William Wallace, thus the ...
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John Slattery Gets Lost in “God’s Pocket”
It's fitting, perhaps, that, as far as I can tell, there is no such neighborhood as God's Pocket. It's a literary device. I read that the novel upon which John Slattery's directorial debut is based sets its action in Philadelphia, where its writer, Pete Dexter...
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“Nymphomaniac Vol. II” Gives Us The Whole Story And Much More
The problem with the release of Nymphomaniac isn't that it was split into two volumes – it’s that those volumes were released on different days. The idea of splitting a film into multiple volumes, in of itself, is actually an extremely exciting one. Can you im...
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Knowing “Alan Partridge”: The British DJ’s Big-Screen Debut Forgets What He’s All About
You could say Alan Partridge was made for the Internet Age. The British comedy persona, a disc jockey from Norfolk and disastrous one-time BBC chat presenter, is a real new media junkie. Pushing sixty at this point, Partridge has relaunched himself on the late...
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“Breathe In”: Tepid Romance From Drake Doremus
Director Drake Doremus showed early signs of promise with Like Crazy, the 2011 Sundance Grand Jury prize winner that offered glimpses of a new age no-holds barred love story, but ended up registering as a dopey romance that failed to burrow deep into its chara...
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“Cheap Thrills”: The Savage One-Upsmanship of the Desperate
Cheap Thrills begins with the sounds of sex -- or, rather, sex interrupted. Craig (Pat Healy) is entering the throes of passion with his wife Audrey (Amanda Fuller) one morning, when the alarm clock suddenly goes off. Craig hits the snooze button, delaying the...
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“Nymph()maniac: Vol. I”: Lars Von Trier Waves His Freak Flag
Reviewing Danish troublemaker Lars von Trier's latest film, Nymph()maniac feels like nothing more than a fool's errand. That's partially because the movie opening in theaters this Friday is just the first half of the entire production, whose second entry relea...
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“The Right Kind of Wrong” and “Love and Demons”: A One-Two Punch of Anachronistic Relationship Propaganda
In Woody Allen’s seminal 1977 comedic romance Annie Hall, Alvy Singer, in an attempt to make sense of why his seemingly impervious relationship failed, approaches a couple on the street and asks how they account for their shared happiness.
The woman answers...
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