Although liberals treat Donald Trump's election as a blow to their cause, it is actually a boon in disguise – provided they maneuver things right.
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Charles Feldman’s ‘Casino Royale’ (1967) Comes Of Age, Five Decades Later
But Casino Royale is also a hint -- no matter how minor, or how bare -- of some possibilities within the medium. It’s just that, after trying to do it all, on the one hand, it forgot what needed to get done in the first place.
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Yet who will film Jessica Schneider's book, and be the first to hee-haw and misinterpret her?
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Can poets, in the future, say this word more firmly?
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'To The Wonder' is not the near-masterpiece Roger Ebert thought it was, nor is it the meandering, incomprehensible mess others claim.
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As the painting shows, even a formula repeated often enough can lead to something of value, if only by accident.
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Centuries later, it will still be one damn thing after another.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein’
The film is merely good...for it's reflexive, and has remarkably little to do with the outside world.
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