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Shamanistic neon: the Film Doctor's one sentence review of Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives

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The Everydayness of Fruitvale Station

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Coyote love: 7 notes on what I remember from R.I.P.D.

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Hi-Yo Silver and the taxidermic crow: 10 notes on Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger

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"Misrepresenting my vagina": 4 notes on gender and genre in The Heat

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Marketing Krypton Christ: 10 things I liked about Zack Snyder's Man of Steel

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