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  Gangster Squad's cop-turned-screenwriter faces the thin blue line edit
  By Scott Foundas
  Wed Jan 9, 2013

  "Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it," screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood's... More >>

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  The Films of Kim Jong Il
  By Michael Nordine
  Wed Jan 9, 2013

  When he died in December 2011, Kim Jong Il left behind more than a dynastic regime and a closet full of drab pantsuits. Jong Il, who ruled the... More >>

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  How to Defend Quentin Tarantino
  By Vern
  Wed Jan 2, 2013

  Ah, here it is again: that special time we experience every two to six years when Quentin Tarantino makes a new movie, and people dig out the old... More >>

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  Don't Stop Believing
  By Scott Foundas
  Wed Jan 2, 2013

  David Chase looks like he wants to whack somebody. Not just anybody, mind you, but the middle-aged guy with the bad dye job a few tables away... More >>

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  On the Road stars talk about their "unmakeable" movie
  By Jeff Weiss
  Wed Dec 26, 2012

  There's traffic from Silver Lake. That's why Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund, the stars of On the Road, are late to the Benedict Room of the... More >>

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  Quentin Tarantino unchained
  By Karina Longworth
  Wed Dec 19, 2012

  Quentin Tarantino has been Googling himself, and it's starting to become a problem. The filmmaker, whose eighth feature, Django Unchained, opens... More >>

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  Top 10 films of 2012
  By Karina Longworth
  Wed Dec 19, 2012

  More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 "best" movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I'd have 25 unnumbered... More >>

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  2012 Film Critics' Poll
  By Scott Foundas
  Wed Dec 19, 2012

  Squeaking by with an Obama-size victory margin, Paul Thomas Anderson's thrillingly strange The Master tops this year's Voice Film Critics' Poll,... More >>

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  Leos Carax Returns
  By Steven Erickson
  Wed Dec 5, 2012

  "This film was born out of the rage of not being able to make other projects," Leos Carax says of Holy Motors, an anomaly in the French... More >>

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  The State of Movie Violence
  By Nick Pinkerton
  Wed Nov 28, 2012

  Part of the renascent body-count action industry, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning's mere existence might shock many Americans. "There are... More >>