Ever wonder how New York City was able to escape L.A.'s expressway-choked fate? Thank Jane Jacobs, the journalist, author and community activist who continually pred
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Heavyweight almost-champ Chuck Wepner was a character long before he inspired Sylvester Stallone to pen Rocky. But Wepner is no Rocky Balboa. Sure, he comes from a w
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Nasty, brutish and not short enough, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire has a simple ? and ultimately simpleminded ? premise: to protract what would normally be a brief shooto
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Terry George's The Promise has the rare good fortune of turning up in theaters just weeks after another film showed how necessary a movie like this is. The secon
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How do you document in a film the crack-up of something as complex as a city a quarter-century past? A pair of new documentaries about the Los Angeles riots of April
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HBO's acid-bathed Beltway satire Veep didn't exactly predict our absurd political reality. But it did come close enough that revisiting past seasons is like watching
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Ludwig, you are the favorite of the Lord because more than any other man, you are exposed to sin. A compassionate priest says this to the mad king of Bavaria about h
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First things first. The new Mystery Science Theater 3000, that basic-cable and UHF puppet show that was above all else a treatise about what it was like to grow up o
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The sole authenticated photograph of Emily Dickinson (183086) was taken when she was 16 years old: The Daguerreotype revealing a slight young woman with a searching
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I've been trained for this. Those words ? or some variation ? come up several times throughout James Gray's The Lost City of Z, and they serve as one key to this str
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Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Graduation is one of the best films I've ever seen about corruption. That's true despite the fact that Mungiu underplays the typi
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Holy motors! Excuse me while I catch my breath. This is perhaps the fastest and, if not, certainly the most furious of the Fast & Furious movies. The goal with each
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