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Nov 14, 2013
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Liars are Alex Gibney's specialty: among the subjects of his best documentaries are such world-class prevaricators as Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room), Jack Abramoff (Casino Jack and the United States of Money), and Eliot Spitzer (Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer).
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Dec 5, 2013
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This documentary portrait of the famous 50s pinup model contends that Page was a progressive figure because she always controlled how her body was objectified.
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Oct 13, 2016
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Dutch writer-director Paul Verhoeven, making his first French-language film, returns to the themes of sexual perversion and errant womanhood he mined in Basic Instinct (1992) and Showgirls (1995).
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Oct 13, 2016
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The eponymous New Jersey town proves to be a hotbed of poetry and art in this comedy from writer-director Jim Jarmusch, thanks to his beautifully loony conceit that all ordinary Americans are closet poets and artists of one kind or another (even if they don't always know it).
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Oct 26, 1985
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If God can be a big black slab from outer space, why can't the devil be a bartender named Lloyd?
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Oct 12, 2017
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"Do you want to save a human life?" asks a woman distributing flyers outside a museum of modern art in Stockholm; the unvarying reply from people on the street is "No." Welcome to the world of Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund, who takes some wicked pot shots at the business of art but more broadly ponders the breakdown of the social contract among all people.
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Oct 16, 2014
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"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job," declares Terence Fletcher, the viciously demanding jazz instructor in Damien Chazelle's Whiplash.
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama