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  <description>Slant Magazine is a webzine featuring reviews and articles on current and classic film, music, and television, interviews, album chart information, and DVD coverage</description>
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<![CDATA[Carrie Underwood - Play On: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate some of the more subtle changes to Underwood's formula. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Blu-ray is a charming presentation of an overrated childhood benchmark. by Chuck Bowen]]>
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<![CDATA[The Box: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Though his narrative's morality-play suspense and Bernard Herrmann-esque score recall Hitchcock, Kelly seems to have selected the '70s so that he can fully channel early-years Steven Spielberg. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Nirvana - Live at Reading: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Live at Reading is a very different beast from Unplugged in New York. by Huw Jones]]>
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<![CDATA[V: TV Review]]>
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<![CDATA[ABC's remake of V taps into familiar conspiracy-theory paranoia. by Kris King]]>
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<![CDATA[Act of God: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The wishy-washy rotation of characters strands us in the center of the film's complex topic without much aside from useless meditation on the fierce numinousness of nature to keep us company. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[The Fourth Kind: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Osunsanmi knows that everybody secretly wants to believe and when it comes to giving the people what they want, he does not disappoint. by Simon Abrams]]>
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<![CDATA[A Christmas Carol: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A clear step in the right direction for Zemeckis and his pet techno-project, the film nonetheless ultimately sabotages itself by prizing the hectic over the heartfelt. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Endgame: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[What sparks are felt throughout Endgame come largely from Hurt and Ejiofor, who both seem to understand exactly the type of talky, tentative movie they're in and do their best to bring in some glints of humor and uncertainty. by Matthew Connolly]]>
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<![CDATA[Modern Family: TV Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The creators of the show have stumbled onto a winning formula with Modern Family. by Peter Swanson]]>
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<![CDATA[Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Great Misdirect contains substantial flaws that cannot be chalked up to prog-rock growing pains. by Matthew Cole]]>
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<![CDATA[Asobi Seksu - Rewolf: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Rewolf is aided by its ability to be organic and comforting and yet also estranged and esoteric. by Kevin Liedel]]>
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<![CDATA[Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[On Mo Beauty, Alec Ounsworth has felt the call of the swamp. by Wilson McBee]]>
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<![CDATA[Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[For an artist who's made a career out of subverting Christian imagery, Tori Amos comes off surprisingly reverent on Midwinter Graces. by Sal Cinquemani]]>
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<![CDATA[Molina & Johnson - Molina & Johnson: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The pairing of Jason Molina and Will Johnson seems like a no-brainer. by Jesse Cataldo]]>
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<![CDATA[Max Richter - Memoryhouse: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Memoryhouse gets a long overdue re-release. by Jesse Cataldo]]>
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<![CDATA[Wings of Desire: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Even for non-fanatics, this packaging of perhaps the most beloved European film of a generation is heaven-sent. by Bill Weber]]>
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<![CDATA[Howards End: Blu-ray Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Not my cup of tea. I don't even like tea. by Eric Henderson]]>
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<![CDATA[The Dead: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Though it does the heart good to see John Huston's uneven swan song on DVD, The Dead deserves better than this cheap-as-Lucky Charms package. Then again, Joyce may have deserved better than Anjelica Huston, so perhaps some cosmic equilibrium is at work here. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[The Men Who Stare at Goats: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A jokey mess so far from the humane, satirical alchemy of Three Kings that a revocation of the producer-star's cinematic passport to the land of military-industrial japery seems in order. by Bill Weber]]>
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<![CDATA[That Evening Sun: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Gets at something essential about man's sense of his own dignity and the importance to the American notion of self that comes with the possession of a property of one's own. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Wiseman is principally concerned with process here, the process of art's creation and, to a lesser degree, the process of an institution's functioning. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[Collapse: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Smith's subject Michael Ruppert never registers as much more than an eloquent but largely untrustworthy quack. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Splinterheads: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Despite positioning itself as a Napoleon Dynamite-style comedy about a spazzy social retard, Splinterheads seems to have misplaced most of its jokes. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[The William Castle Film Collection: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[An ideal tribute to the horror staple. by Chuck Bowen]]>
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<![CDATA[Eastwick: TV Review]]>
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<![CDATA[ABC's soapy new drama is the show you don't know you want to be watching. by Katherine Stevens]]>
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<![CDATA[This Is It: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Given just how much material Kenny Ortega and his editors plowed through to whittle together a two-hour scrapbook and they still could only just barely come up with the presentable material here isn't exactly a vindication. by Eric Henderson]]>
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<![CDATA[Weezer - Raditude: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Weezer's unpardonable decline into soulless streamlined pop-rock continues with Raditude. by Huw Jones]]>
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<![CDATA[Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The material is better served in context, complete with music videos and framed with dialogue, whereas as a standalone record it misses more than it hits. by Huw Jones]]>
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<![CDATA[How to Seduce Difficult Women: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A brief walk through a local Barnes and Noble (or any internet community devoted to relationship advice) effortlessly castrates the movie's ambiguous satirical aspirations. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[Looking for Palladin: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Apart from Gazzara's brilliant, effortless performance, everything is a little cartoonish in Looking for Palladin. by Diego Costa]]>
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<![CDATA[Gentlemen Broncos: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Hess still seems to see his characters as little more than objects of comedic fun. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[Orphan: Blu-ray Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The only thing mysterious about Orphan is why Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard signed on to such an idiotic mess. by Matt Noller]]>
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<![CDATA[Natural Born Killers: The Director's Cut: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A solid DVD release of a terrible, terrible movie. by Matt Noller]]>
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<![CDATA[Z: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[This edition of Z lives, perhaps ironically, through the beauty of its surface and sheen. by Bill Weber]]>
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<![CDATA[Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The album is a slowly paced glide. by Jesse Cataldo]]>
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<![CDATA[Tegan and Sara - Sainthood: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The brief Sainthood is helped along by an efficient chain of songs. by Kevin Liedel]]>
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<![CDATA[R.E.M. - Live at the Olympia: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Olympia is not simply a for-fans-only vanity project. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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  <link>http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=1897</link> 
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<![CDATA[The Samuel Fuller Collection: The Collector's Choice: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The Film Foundation offers a Fuller understanding of film noir through one of the genre's most unique participants. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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  <link>http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=1621</link>
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<![CDATA[The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The true abiding love affair here remains between Duffy and QT. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Storm: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A finely graded legal thriller, Storm effectively builds its moral and political investigation into the fabric of its central court case. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[Skin: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A promotional film best suited for broadcast in an office lobby. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Turning Green: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[An Irish-set comedy-drama, <i>Turning Green</i> is not particularly comic or compellingly dramatic. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[Labor Day: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A promotional film best suited for broadcast in an office lobby. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Saw VI: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Saw VI plays like the last gasp for relevance of a heavy-metal series that has not only gone regurgitation-rusty but seems lacking much of a will to live. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Stan Helsing: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[This might be the cheapest-looking production of the year. by Rob Humanick]]>
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<![CDATA[Amelia: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Amelia attempts the yeoman's task of recounting a tale about which it has virtually nothing to say. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Death in the Garden: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A minor Bunuel work, Death in the Garden is mostly notable for capturing Simone Signoret in color for the first time and at her most impatient as an actress. by Ed Gonzalez]]>
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<![CDATA[Monsoon Wedding: The Criterion Collection: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Criterion's edition of Monsoon Wedding is a comprehensive and beautiful presentation of a key work in Mira Nair's career. by Chuck Bowen]]>
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<![CDATA[Astro Boy: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Astro Boy succeeds at creating a complex world filled with second-class robots and sometimes careless, greedy humans, providing food for thought and animated thrills for adults and kids alike. by Adam Keleman]]>
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<![CDATA[From the East: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[From the East is the perfect way to ride that fine line between watching a movie and dazing with it. by Eric Henderson]]>
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<![CDATA[Sufjan Stevens - The BQE: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[If one can ignore this overexcited curtain call, though, BQE can be deemed a hugely successful gamble for Stevens. by Huw Jones]]>
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<![CDATA[Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Phrazes represents a creative departure for Casablancas. by Jesse Cataldo]]>
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<![CDATA[Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[It's hard to escape the feeling that this is one film that already has its eye on the next chapter. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[Rembrandt's J'Accuse: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[This immersive tour of the mortal manipulations fueling Europe's 17th-century cultural capital supplies wit and intellect while it starves the emotions. by Bill Weber]]>
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<![CDATA[The Wedding Song: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Director Karin Albou shrewdly links national politics with its domestic sexual counterpart. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[Motherhood: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Director Katherine Dieckmann, who demonstrated some natural comic rhythms and efficiency with actors in Diggers, is here unable to surmount the sitcom dreariness of her first original screenplay, apparently a "write-what-you-know" misjudgment. by Bill Weber]]>
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<![CDATA[(Untitled): Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Parker reduces the art world to the insipid backbiting and conniving of malign thugs that enthusiastically bat around grandiose, self-serving endorsements like, "When you collect it, you're not just writing a check. You're writing the history of Western civilization." by Simon Abrams]]>
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<![CDATA[Killing Krasztner: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[This immersive tour of the mortal manipulations fueling Europe's 17th-century cultural capital supplies wit and intellect while it starves the emotions. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: TV Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Sunny may not be the most highbrow comedy on television, but it's arguably the one with the highest density of actual laughs. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Tarot Sport makes its mark. by Jesse Cataldo]]>
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<![CDATA[Electric Six - Kills: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Electric Six's wiseass humor and, moreover, their superior technical skill make Kill an energetic, frenzied party of a record. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Maps - Turning the Mind: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Turning the Mind, Chapman's second studio offering as Maps, takes its cues less from the poppy M83 and more from Australian trio Cut Copy. by Kevin Liedel]]>
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<![CDATA[Atlas Sound - Logos: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[At this point it's doubtful that Cox will ever let Atlas Sound overshadow Deerhunter. by Wilson McBee]]>
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<![CDATA[The Stepfather: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A shabby substitute for its original. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Law Abiding Citizen: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[An illogical, campy joke of a movie that suffers hugely in comparison to F. Gary Gray's earlier fuck-the-injustice-system thriller The Negotiator. by Ryan Stewart]]>
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<![CDATA[I Am Because We Are: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Madonna's mother died when she was six. But you knew that already. The rest you probably didn't know, but should. by Sal Cinquemani]]>
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<![CDATA[Black Rain: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Following the recent releases of The Ballad of Narayama and Criterion's Pigs, Pimps and Prostitutes box set, the posthumous celebration of a Japanese master continues. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[Joe Nichols - Old Things New: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[There simply isn't a weak song on the record. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Cheri: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Cheri has its problems, and given the dubious video presentation on this DVD edition, now it has more. by Dan Callahan and Ed Gonzalez]]>
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<![CDATA[Children of the Corn: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[This indifferently made TV-horror flick will inspire more snores than scares. by Jeremiah Kipp]]>
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<![CDATA[The Little Traitor: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The film makes no effort to ameliorate the many contrivances of the novel's plot. Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[Survivor Samoa: TV Review]]>
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<![CDATA[It's unfortunate that The Russell Show comes at the expense of one of the most legitimately interesting story arcs the show has ever aired. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Dexter: TV Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Dexter continues to regard characterization as a simpleminded means to an end. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Earthly Delights is all about pure, elemental hedonism. by Matthew Cole]]>
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<![CDATA[Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Christmas in the Heart paints an appealing holiday picture: chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost scratching at your ears. by Jesse Cataldo]]>
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<![CDATA[The Black Heart Procession - Six: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Six, despite the season and its sinister atmosphere, is not a Halloween album. by Jesse Cataldo]]>
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<![CDATA[Eclipse Series 18: Dusan Makavejev Free Radical: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Sporting October-appropriate candy-corn colors, the Dusan Makavejev Eclipse set is like a triumphant middle finger: It's up to you to take offense or pleasure yourself with it. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[Toby Keith - American Ride: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Manafon is far too preoccupied with unadorned stillness to be considered listenable. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Hockey - Mind Chaos: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Mind Chaos, is, song-for-song and hook-for-hook, as solid a record as Phoenix's far hipper Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Exene Cervenka - Somewhere Gone: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Somewhere Gone is a promising start to a new direction in Cervenka's already storied career. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[The Flaming Lips - Embryonic: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Embryonic pushes the Lips's sound back into more experimental territory. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Where the Wild Things Are: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Max's dilemma and emotions are distilled to their essence, so the way his real-life suffering informs his dreamscapes becomes unmistakable. by Ed Gonzalez]]>
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<![CDATA[New York, I Love You: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[If at first you partially succeed, repeat the formula. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[More than an appreciation for Kerouac himself, <i>One Fast Move</i> engenders an appreciation for the mellifluousness of Kerouac's prose read atop footage of briny California waves. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[Food Beware: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Jean-Paul Jaud's Food Beware, a look at the organic food movement in France, is more concerned with focusing on solutions than in simply sounding the alarm. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[The Proposal: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Quite a few of bonus features pad this DVD of The Proposal, which is otherwise notable solely for seeing Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds accidentally slam into each other completely in the buff. by Nick Schager and Sal Cinquemani]]>
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<![CDATA[Paramornal Activity: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Compared to The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity has it easy. by Rob Humanick]]>
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<![CDATA[The Office: TV Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The Office is one of the great comedic works of our era. by Rob Humanick]]>
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<![CDATA[Ramona Falls - Intuit: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Intuit contains four or five tracks that are absolutely as ambitious and, ultimately, as good as anything the indie scene has produced this year. by Matthew Cole]]>
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<![CDATA[Sufjan Stevens and Osso - Run Rabbit Run: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Run Rabbit Run's ample highlights not only illustrate Osso's mastery of their string instruments but emphasize Stevens's incredible talent as a songwriter and arranger. by Huw Jones]]>
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<![CDATA[Stop Making Sense: Blu-ray Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A Blu-ray that preserves the integrity and beauty of the documentary with extras that provide context without over-explaining or sentimentalizing the illusion. Chuck Bowen]]>
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<![CDATA[Backstreet Boys - This Is Us: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Something went horribly, horribly awry in the album's execution. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Couple's Retreat: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Ultimately comes off as merely an excuse for stars to take a vacation on the studio's and moviegoing public's dime. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Trucker: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The film's trajectory is certainly a familiar one and Mottern doesn't exactly break the mold, but in his tough-minded commitment to both his characters and to their lower-middle-class milieu, the filmmaker recasts his potentially disastrous material into something that feels emotionally honest, if not exactly revelatory. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[An Interview: Lone Scherfig]]>
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<![CDATA["I'm the director, I'm not their mom," Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig dryly notes, regarding her first English language effort, An Education, and directing a cast that includes the spry, young newcomer Carey Mulligan. by Adam Keleman]]>
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<![CDATA[An Education: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The emotional maturity of a sheltered teen in post-war austerity Britain is thoroughly tested in An Education. by Ryan Stewart]]>
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<![CDATA[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition: Blu-ray Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Sure it's technically essential, but kids won't notice the stunning video presentation of Disney's Blu-ray release, and adults are referred to R.S. Gwynn's "Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins." Eric Henderson]]>
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<![CDATA[Good Hair: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[That many of these hairstyles derive from standards of beauty laid down by white tastemakers is a question that hangs over Good Hair. by Matthew Connolly]]>
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<![CDATA[Three Rivers: TV Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Three Rivers is neither adrenaline-pumping, like NBC's Trauma, nor genre-busting, like House. by Katherine Stevens]]>
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<![CDATA[Audition: Blu-ray Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Miike makes so many movies that his only truly essential one should get a deserving HD release. No such luck, sadly. Ed Gonzalez and Matt Noller]]>
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