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'Orange Is the New Black' Season Two (second review)
When your choices don’t matter: The terror and appeal of 'Orange Is the New Black'
Orange Is the New Black portrays a world without an underlying order — a world where individuals’ choices don’t make much difference, and the characters struggle to survive anyway.

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2014-2015 television series finales
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Even the best TV show has to end eventually — the way it does so can make a difference to its legacy.
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'Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me'
“She’s Still Here”: Remembering Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch died yesterday, leaving the words of her favorite song, “I’m Still Here,” ringing in our ears. For me, she’s the epitome of show-business glamour. She glowed with the radiance of a performer who loved what she did, and she lived life to the fullest, without apology. She had sass, she had style, and she made a lot of people happy along the way.
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Bong Joon-ho's 'Snowpiercer'
An allegory with ax fights
Snowpiercer is worth seeing not just because of its indictment of widening global inequality, but because it seriously examines the alternatives.

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Paul Haggis's 'Third Person'
Third person, removed
Third Person underwhelms in its attempt to tie together three separate threads. Its downfall is the very detachment implied by its title.

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Roger Ebert’s ‘Life Itself’
The secret of Roger Ebert’s success
Life Itself is a documentary about a remarkable man who spent his entire life in movie theaters yet somehow managed to develop more humane relationships with more real people than most of us who inhabit the real world.

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Cormac McCarthy and Ridley Scott re-team for 'The Counselor'
Cormac and the Dark Side All-Stars
Cormac McCarthy is our Balzac of dope.

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Drive-ins and the way we watch movies
Starry night
The drive-in experience is like tailgating before a sporting event, but for movie junkies.
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Clint Eastwood's 'Jersey Boys'
Jersey Goodboys
Clint Eastwood's version of the popular stage musical about the Four Seasons is a tone-deaf mess.

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'Penny Dreadful' goes back to horror’s roots
Horror is the new black
Penny Dreadful features a rogue’s gallery of Victorian favorites, but this is no retread of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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