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Justifying love's sacrifice: Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea

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Gotham's reckoning: a discussion of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises

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Baditude and the cartoon cartel: 8 notes on Savages

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A memory of a fantasy in a miniaturized world: Moonrise Kingdom's techniques

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