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<![CDATA[Gomorrah: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Drably redundant, the over-praised Gomorrah may not deserve the Criterion treatment, but fans will be pleased by the solid audio/video treatment it has received. by Fernando F. Croce and Ed Gonzalez]]>
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<![CDATA[The Road: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Hillcoat has a way of undermining the earthy performances of his cast with overly refined images and obtrusive music. by Ed Gonzalez]]>
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<![CDATA[Planet 51: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The film fails at creating characters with credible emotional textures, a task easily, and vividly, demonstrated by Pixar time and time again. by Adam Keleman]]>
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<![CDATA[The Blind Side: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The movie's title refers to the area of a football field that the left tackle protects, but it could easily refer to an audience unaware of its prejudices. by Aaron Cutler]]>
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<![CDATA[The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Parents: If I can (poorly) discipline a 16-year-old cat to not howl before sunrise, you can teach your kids to not emulate Bella Swan. by Simon Abrams]]>
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<![CDATA[Say Anything...: 20th Anniversary Edition: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[He gave her his heart, she gave him a pen, and Say Anything... still gives off a sweet, enveloping glow. by Bill Weber]]>
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<![CDATA[Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[GaGa seems as influenced by Marilyn Manson as she is by Madonna. by Sal Cinquemani]]>
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<![CDATA[Leona Lewis - Echo: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[If nothing else, Echo certainly establishes Leona Lewis as a singularly gifted vocalist. by Matthew Cole]]>
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<![CDATA[OneRepublic - Waking Up: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Waking Up shows traces of the better songs that could have been. by Matthew Cole]]>
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<![CDATA[Rakim - The Seventh Seal: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Rakim finds himself shackled to a mass of middling producers and unexceptional beats. by Jesse Cataldo]]>
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<![CDATA[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: Blu-Ray Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Kevin Smith's clever in-joke movie gets an anemic Blu-ray release. Ed Gonzalez and Matt Noller]]>
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<![CDATA[Chasing Amy: Blu-Ray Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Smith's best film, in a disappointing audio-visual package with some great extras. Matt Noller]]>
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<![CDATA[Clerks: 15th Anniversary Edition: Blu-Ray Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The extras are sweet, but Clerks's low-budget ugliness is a questionable fit for Blu-ray. Matt Noller]]>
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<![CDATA[Monsters, Inc.: Blu-Ray Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A stunning release of one of Pixar's most sadly underappreciated works. Ed Gonzalez and Matt Noller]]>
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<![CDATA[Downhill Racer: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing in Ritchie's and Redford's pointed study of competitive obsessions and Phyrric victories. Fernando F. Croce]]>
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<![CDATA[Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[It may not have the wounding thrust of Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, but it shares with that film a bottomless compassion for its crazies. by Fernando F. Croce]]>
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<![CDATA[Friday Night Lights: TV Review]]>
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<![CDATA[As Friday Night Lights enters its fourth season, series creator Peter Berg has embraced the need to restructure. by Kris King]]>
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<![CDATA[Mammoth: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[A transitional, almost deliberately pensive movie from a director who typically charts a ruthlessly direct course. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[Norah Jones - The Fall: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The Fall comes burdened with some expectations that the vocalist has shaken up her trademark formula. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under the Influence: Deluxe Bourbonitis Edition: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[2001's A Man Under the Influence manages to stand out even within the context of an impossibly deep catalogue. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Old 97s - Wreck Your Life and Then Some: The Complete Bloodshot Recordings: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[This collection serves as an immediate reminder that Old 97s have been drawing from the best of country, rock, and pop all along. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Them Crooked Vultures sounds like a 21st-century abduction of classic hard rock. by Huw Jones]]>
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<![CDATA[Red Cliff: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The film's shortcomings, however, have less to do with Woo's orchestration of his ambitious tale and more to do with the Frankenstein hatchet job enacted against it. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[The Missing Person: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The film's second half appears primed to tread some interesting existential territory, but Buschel seems confused about what direction he means to take his material. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[Defamation: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Shamir's propensity for scatterbrained journalism muddles the film's first half to the point of irritation. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[Staten Island: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Staten Island has the stench of meat left on the counter for too long. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Fix: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Ruspoli's scenic cross-section L.A. travelogue conveys a strong sense of milieu even as his wannabe-Strung aesthetics reveal the project's underlying style-over-substance concerns. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Janet Jackson - Number Ones: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The album's first 30 tracks make a convincing case for Janet as one of the most consistent pop artists of the last 25 years. by Sal Cinquemani]]>
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<![CDATA[We All Have Hooks for Hands - The Shape of Energy: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Shape of Energy isn't some collection of piss n' vinegar rock brilliance, but it's a good amount of fun. by Kevin Liedel]]>
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<![CDATA[Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Xenophanes: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Xenophones is the latest product of Rodriguez Lopez's hiatus from the Mars Volta. by Jesse Cataldo]]>
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<![CDATA[Dashboard Confessional - After the Ending: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[As the frontman for Dashboard Confessional and a vaguely reluctant pinup, Chris Carrabba is almost calculatedly perfect. by Eric Henderson]]>
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<![CDATA[Dare: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Dare is substandard fare by all accounts, plucking its characters from past (and better) teen-angst films. by Adam Keleman]]>
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<![CDATA[The Messenger: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[These largely self-contained vignettes are harrowing, the source of a font of raw emotional release that could never be otherwise captured except through a presumably invasive documentary process. by Ryan Stewart]]>
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<![CDATA[The Hand of Fatima: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[It'd be tempting to call it ambitious if the large emotions felt by its subjects were transmitted in terms other than the increasingly common tropes of the family-therapy doc. by Bill Weber]]>
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<![CDATA[Fringe: TV Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The second season of Fringe has not, unfortunately, picked up where the first season left off. by Peter Swanson]]>
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<![CDATA[Tara Jane O'Neil - A Ways Away: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[O'Neil uses multiple layers of strategically placed sound to chart a confident course through narratives about loneliness and longing. by Andrew Hamlin]]>
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<![CDATA[Echo & the Bunnymen- The Fountain: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[When taken as a whole, the latest from the U.K. post-punk vets is significantly worse than any one track would suggest. by Matthew Cole]]>
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<![CDATA[Women in Trouble: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[At a particularly rundown corner of Almodovar Boulevard and Tarantino Lane, you'll find Women in Trouble, a limp, forgettable collection of interlocking tales all centering on the eponymous narrative setup. by Matthew Connolly]]>
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<![CDATA[2012: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Roland Emmerich provides the next entry in the "Apocalyptically Disastrous" subgenre of mega-blockbuster cinema, following up Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with an equally soulless depiction of life at the end of the world. by Simon Abrams]]>
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<![CDATA[Dizzee Rascal - Tongue N' Cheek: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Tongue N' Cheek is Dizzee Rascal's least ambitious and most successfully tasteless album. by Eric Henderson]]>
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<![CDATA[Wale - Attention Deficit: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Attention Deficit is both Wale's major-label debut and his moment of truth. by Wilson McBee]]>
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<![CDATA[Shakira - She Wolf: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Like the loba herself, She Wolf has a bit of an identity problem. by Sal Cinquemani]]>
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<![CDATA[Etienne Jaumet - Night Music: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Night Music captures the macabre power of darkness. by Jesse Cataldo]]>
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<![CDATA[Fantastic Mr. Fox: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Anderson's first foray into animation amuses at a consistent enough clip, and with an impressively deft balance between mature and immature humor, to successfully charm, if not quite make ones eyes go swirly-lined delirious with joy. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Bruno: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Deeply condescending but often hilarious, this absolute mess of a film showcases the best and worst tendencies of Sacha Baron Cohen's character and talents. Ed Gonzalez]]>
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<![CDATA[Up: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Disney's decision to make a bunch of additional Up behind-the-scenes goodies available only to Blu-ray owners reeks of cruel elitism, but even if this two-disc DVD feels lightweight, the film itself does not. Ed Gonzalez]]>
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<![CDATA[North by Northwest: 50th Anniversary Edition: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[There is no George Kaplan, but there is still spiffy, hypnotic pleasure in this apex of the Master's perpetual-motion mode. Bill Weber]]>
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<![CDATA[It's Garry Shandling's Show: The Complete Series: DVD Review]]>
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<![CDATA[This set is comprehensive enough to get lost in, but if postmodern sitcoms with a sharp Faustian undercurrent are your thing, you won't mind. Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[Annie - Don't Stop: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Annie's attempts to venture outside the anonymous disco-tart mold would be more welcomed if she didn't do the anonymous disco-tart thing so damn well. by Sal Cinquemani]]>
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<![CDATA[Jason Mraz - Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess - Live from Earth: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[The crowd's response makes it clear that there's an enthusiastic audience for Mess, but, for the unconverted, it's hard to hear the album as anything more than inessential. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Amerie - In Love & War: Music Review]]>
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<![CDATA[War is deserving of greater commercial impact than it is likely to earn. by Jonathan Keefe]]>
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<![CDATA[Pirate Radio: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Writer-director Richard Curtis is about as rock n' roll as the average great-grandmother, so it's no surprise that Pirate Radio, his ode to the irrepressible spirit of '60s classic rock, has all the electricity of a knitted sweater. by Nick Schager]]>
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<![CDATA[Oh My God: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[In Oh My God, those who disagree with the party line are summarily contradicted. by Andrew Schenker]]>
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<![CDATA[William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[His oft-spoken use of Michelangelo's David as a personal symbol of the individual's decision to bring "power to the people" gives better insight into this jurist's fiery heart than any case study. by Bill Weber]]>
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<![CDATA[The Good Soldier: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Unlike, for example, Errol Morris's recent works, it doesn't bother to buttress the eye-opening firsthand accounts with a coherent historical argument. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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<![CDATA[The End of Poverty?: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Perhaps most surprising of all are the parallels Diaz accidentally draws between the "evil" First World and the "innocent" Third. by Lauren Wissot]]>
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<![CDATA[Four Seasons Lodge: Film Review]]>
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<![CDATA[Four Seasons Lodge will likely be labeled a Holocaust documentary, but it's more accurately a work of sociologically-minded film poetry akin to Michael Apted's ongoing Up series. by Joseph Jon Lanthier]]>
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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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<![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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<![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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