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The Coen brothers and black cloud movies
Why are we laughing?
Though the Coen brothers didn’t invent the movie genre in which misfortune after misfortune is visited on the protagonist, they have certainly cornered the market.
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'Jurassic World'
Nostalgiasaurus rex
In the end, T-Rex doesn’t lose its monster status because of our blasé 21st-century attitude to computer-generated beasts; it becomes a bona fide character through our own nostalgia for its original film incarnation and its evolving role in the action.
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Aleksey German’s 'Hard to Be a God'
Where the rain never stops
A modern Hieronymus Bosch, the late Russian filmmaker Aleksey German left us as his last testament a vision of hell for our increasingly dystopic 21st-century world.
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Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ Season 3 (second review)
Faith and friendship
Much of the comedy in this season of Orange Is the New Black comes from mixing up the characters. New, unusual friendships make excellent use of the deep bench of supporting characters, many of whom are outcasts or invisible, or have lost their identity to groupthink.
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Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ Season 3
Complicated ladies in a complicated place
Now in its third season, Orange Is the New Black returns to see the ladies of Litchfield remaining resourceful and optimistic about their incarcerated future, while battling with problems both inside and outside of the prison walls.
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Orson Welles’s 'The Other Side of the Wind'
The best movie never made?
Orson Welles spent 15 years on a movie he couldn’t complete. The legend is perhaps bigger than the film could have been.
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Simon Curtis's 'Woman in Gold'
The most brazen theft of them all
Woman in Gold tells one of Hollywood’s favorite stories, justice against the odds. In this case, it happens to be true.
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The end of 'Mad Men'
The cynical redemption of Don Draper
If the purpose of the retreat is to figure out who you really are, how you feel about that, and how to recognize love, then isn’t it an act of radical honesty and self-acceptance for Don to embrace himself as a person who works best when he spins his dreams into brilliant ad copy?
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Is the Food Network making us fat?
While the Food Network has its share of old-fashioned cooking shows, hosted by pleasant, chatty cooks, each with a personal schtick, the network's dominant subgenres are the cooking competition and the eating travelogue.
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'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' and 'Goodbye to Language'
The 4K redemption
What digital cinema makes possible could not have happened with celluloid, love it as much as we wish. Dr. Caligari and Goodbye to Language show why.
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