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 "The best video essay source on the web." (Roger Ebert) This is a web site built around original video essays and critical, personal writing about movies, TV, music, comics and whatever else interests its contributors. Co-founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, TV critic for New York Magazine, and Ken Cancelosi, it is published by Seitz and Cancelosi and overseen by editor-in-chief Kevin B. Lee and managing editor Max Winter.

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CANNES 2012: Michel Gondry's THE WE AND THE I

Festivals
Gondry's latest movie buzzes with hormones and posturing and All That Angst.
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • May 18, 2012 10:20 AM
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CANNES 2012: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's MEKONG HOTEL

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"Mekong Hotel" is another quiet but deeply impressive drama set in Weerasethakul-Land, where time and narrative logic as we know them don't apply.
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • May 17, 2012 12:08 PM
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CANNES 2012: Jacques Audiard's RUST AND BONE

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Jacques Audiard only knows how to pummel us. The French director of "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" and "A Prophet" wouldn’t know a subtle musical cue or composition if it were staring him in the face.
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  • By Glenn Heath Jr.
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  • May 17, 2012 9:37 AM
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CANNES 2012: Yousry Nasrallah's AFTER THE BATTLE

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Governments are inherently evil. Commoners are redeemable imbeciles. Academics are clueless do-gooders. These cookie-cutter generalizations about character motivation and social institutions define Yousry Nasrallah’s "After the Battle."
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  • By Glenn Heath Jr.
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  • May 16, 2012 5:39 PM
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CANNES 2012: Wes Anderson's MOONRISE KINGDOM

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"Moonrise Kingdom" is a great success, both within the context of Wes Anderson's body of work and as a work unto itself. Initially, however, its Wes- Anderson-y-ness is almost off-putting.
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • May 16, 2012 9:18 AM
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VIDEO ESSAY: DIAL K FOR KUROSAWA

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The perfect crime, the wrong man, the speeding train, and the surprising MacGuffin. "High and Low" has all the best elements of a great Alfred Hitchcock film. But it isn’t Hitchcock—it’s Akira Kurosawa, the Japanese director better known for his samurai flicks and complex moral tales.
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  • By Peter Labuza
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  • May 15, 2012 1:44 PM
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TRAILER MIX: GANGSTER SQUAD

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The trailer for "Gangster Squad" isn't selling nostalgia so much as retrograde, standard-issue images of masculinity.
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  • May 15, 2012 8:55 AM
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CRUEL SUMMER: THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)

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According to John Landis, "The Blues Brothers" was the last movie made under the old studio factory system. "The Blues Brothers" feels, indeed, like a transitional movie. It takes the form of a big studio musical, but its execution is all 1980s bigger-is-better filmmaking.
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  • By Aaron Aradillas
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  • May 14, 2012 8:55 AM
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GAME OF THRONES RECAP 7: A MAN WITHOUT HONOR

Television
What makes for a great "Game Of Thrones" episode? What stories can it tell that could put it on the rarefied level of, say, HBO’s holy trinity of "The Sopranos," "Deadwood," and "The Wire"? I’m not sure how I would have answered this question before seeing “A Man Without Honor.”
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  • By Rowan Kaiser
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  • May 14, 2012 8:53 AM
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MAD MEN RECAP 8: DARK SHADOWS

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"I’m thankful that I have everything I want, and that no one else has anything better."
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  • By Deborah Lipp
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  • May 14, 2012 1:12 AM
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