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The female antihero on television
Sisters are doing it for themselves
Right now, there’s a crop of TV shows that both pass the Bechdel test and feature female characters who would feel right at home with Jax Teller and Walter White.
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The Fall 2014 TV season
Geek Wonderland
As a lifelong geek, I consider this to be the Golden Age of television. Of all the choices on TV (and let’s face it, there are a lot of choices), geek programs as a rule have a higher level of writing and production values than your average cop show or prime-time soap opera.
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'Under the Skin' and 'Only Lovers Left Alive'
New takes on horror
Genre films are not just for hacks — well-regarded indie directors Jonathan Glazer and Jim Jarmusch try their hands at horror.
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This is my design: The horror of 'Hannibal'
The viewer of Hannibal enters a world where the most horrifying aspects of being a human being are explored. Our bodies are fragile, our minds vulnerable. We are easy prey for a nearly omnipotent devil such as Hannibal Lecter.
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Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’
How did ‘Noah’ offend you? Here are a few suggestions
Darren Aronofsky's Noah has something to offend — or at least disappoint — just about everyone. Why no animals enjoying a turn around the deck, Darren?
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'Blue Is the Warmest Color' and 'The Great Beauty'
The view from Europe
Blue Is the Warmest Color and The Great Beauty make excellent companion pieces, presenting a surfeit of gorgeous filmmaking as they bookend two lives in advanced industrial democracies.
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Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' (second review)
Inside a Central European snow globe
The Grand Budapest Hotel is no different from Wes Anderson’s other films — it is visually stunning and quite funny, but there is nothing at the center.
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Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’
The glory that once was (not) Zubrowka
Wes Anderson’s marvelously inventive Grand Budapest Hotel is that rare film that can be enjoyed on several levels. And it arrives at an especially propitious moment in history.
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Documentaries about gentrification
Telling neighborhood stories
Some urban neighborhoods under pressure from the forces of gentrification document their battles through documentaries. Filmmaker Kathryn Smith Pyle singles out some worth your consideration.
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HBO's 'True Detective'
True romance?
HBO's True Detective is deceptive: on the face of a traditional cop-buddies-hunt-serial-killer procedural, it actually breaks new ground in portraying the relationship between the two protagonists.
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