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Benefit of the Doubt - Pop Culture Apologism
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X-Men: First Class was a bad movie, which is sad, because there's some groundwork for a very good one.
Responding to Dave Eggers on education reform and the lessons of military thinking.
Splice is a smart, claustrophobic film that balances an array of dramatic parts in service to a powerful whole.
Iron Man 2 is successful despite some unnecessary baggage squeezed into the plot
Kick-Ass is a comic book fantasy that succeeds as mindless action, but stumbles when it tries to be something else.
Alice in Wonderland: no masterpiece, but Burton clearly had fun making it, so I think I can enjoy it, too.
Shutter Island hits hard, with Martin Scorsese skillfully maneuvering some dark psychological terrain
The Wolfman does some things well, but it blows its core function: creating a werewolf we can take seriously.
Jackie Chan's new "serious" film, The Shinjuku Incident, is ruthless, but compelling and effective.
The is an amazing movie hidden inside Daybreakers, if you just know where to look for it.
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