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  Good Buzz

  By Brian Miller

  The movies are full of cautionary tales about drinking. From The Lost Weekend to Leaving Las Vegas to Young Adult, Hollywood's settled approach... More >>

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  Where to Drink at the Movies

  By Brian Miller

  The Big Picture This comfy basement space beneath El Gaucho, with plush seating and several lounge areas, generally books first-run movies on its... More >>

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  Crazy Horse: Frederick Wiseman Stares at Leggy French Girls

  By Melissa Anderson

  Recording the anthem "Les Filles du Crazy," half a dozen women—performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris' classy nudie cabaret—sing of... More >>

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  Man on a Mission: A Travel Movie From Space

  By Nick Pinkerton

  The man in the title is British-American multimillionaire Richard Garriott, who made his pile designing PC "virtual world" role-playing games,... More >>

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  Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2012: As Usual, the Cartoons Are Best

  By Tim Grierson

  This year's shorts offer a little something for every viewing temperament, though some categories require sitting through a lot of mediocre to... More >>

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  Pina: Wim Wenders' 3-D Tribute to Pina Bausch

  By Melissa Anderson

  "You just have to get crazier" are words of advice mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave one of her dancers, who fondly recalls the moment... More >>

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  SpokAnarchy!: Aging Punk Rockers Remember the '80s

  By Brian Miller

  Aging punks were the recent subject of The Other F-Word (i.e. fatherhood), and aging punks are again the subject of this nostalgic documentary... More >>

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  W.E.: Madonna's Royal Folly

  By Karina Longworth

  W.E. is the second feature film credited to former MTV queen Madonna, and the second in about a year—after The King's Speech—to... More >>

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  Addiction Incorporated: The Evils of Big Tobacco

  By Melissa Anderson

  With a name that not even the PR team at Smokefree America could dream up, Victor DeNoble emerges as the hero of Charles Evans Jr.'s mostly... More >>

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  Coriolanus: Ralph Fiennes Bloodies Up the Bard

  By Eric Hynes

  Updating Shakespeare seems doubly condescending, the implication being that we need help to relate to the text, and that the text needs to be... More >>

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  The Innkeepers: Guests Check In, but They Don't Check Out

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Horror movies are lately given to gluttonous effects, but director Ti West (The House of the Devil) is a rare minimalist. His latest takes place... More >>

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  Miss Minoes: An Adorable Dutch Cat Movie

  By Melissa Anderson

  More delightful than Procatinator and a greater tribute to the power of print journalism than Page One: Inside the New York Times, Miss Minoes... More >>

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  The Nine Muses: Snow, More Snow, and English Immigration Woes

  By Brian Miller

  Richard Burton lives! An arthouse mashup of The Odyssey and England's colonial immigration wave following World War II, The Nine Muses samples... More >>

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  A Separation: The Oscar-Nominated Iranian Divorce Drama

  By J. Hoberman

  Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi's fifth feature is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the jury box. It opens at a... More >>

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  Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close Gets Her Oscar Nomination

  By Melissa Anderson

  Fulfilling a mission that has consumed her for almost two decades, Glenn Close—as producer, co-writer, and lead—brings to the screen... More >>

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