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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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Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ by the BBC
A Machiavelli for all seasons
For more than five centuries, Thomas Cromwell was perceived as the evil genius behind the machinations and marriages of England’s Henry VIII. Hilary Mantel’s brilliant novel Wolf Hall enables us to see Henry’s conspiracy-ridden court through Cromwell’s eyes. The BBC’s recent adaptation renders the experience even more compelling.

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FX's 'Justified'
Good-bye to a great bad guy
Justified shows the edgy, hand-on-your-gun relationship between lawman and outlaw in “Bloody Harlan.”

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John Ridley's 'American Crime' on ABC
ABC grows up
Improbably, ABC now steps up to challenge the best cable crime series. Honest.

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'Sinatra: All or Nothing at All' on HBO
A man of contradictions
Frank Sinatra was born 100 years ago. HBO’s documentary reveals the flaws of this fascinating, contradictory man.

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