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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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The Three Burials of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN; Three Takes on Its Overrated Status

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Though many consider "No Country for Old Men" to be an untouchable classic in the Coens’ oeuvre, it remains tonally flawed.
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  • By Lincoln Flynn, Stacia Kissick Jones, and Alan Pyke
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  • March 27, 2013 8:35 AM
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More: Lincoln Flynn, Stacia Kissick Jones, Alan Pyke, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Blood Simple

VIDEO ESSAY: Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

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They’ve all won Oscars already. Who deserves to win another? Let the footage tell the tale.
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  • By Kevin B. Lee
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  • January 24, 2013 9:43 PM
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More: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Academy Awards, The Master, Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln, Argo, Alan Arkin, Django Unchained, Christoph Waltz

VIDEO ESSAY: MEN IN BLACK: Three Reasons for Criterion Consideration

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For this month’s Criterion Consideration, coming up with a suitable equivalent to Barry Sonnenfeld's latest film, "Men in Black III," was a bit of a challenge.
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  • By Robert Nishimura
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  • May 23, 2012 9:41 AM
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More: video essay, Robert Nishimura, Barry Sonnenfeld, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Video, THREE REASONS (Robert Nishimura)

Close Cuts: The Adaptation Process in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

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That "No Country For Old Men" constitutes one of Cormac McCarthy’s “lesser” works probably says more about McCarthy’s genius than it does about the book’s individual strengths or weaknesses.
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  • By Mark Greenbaum
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  • April 25, 2012 8:55 AM
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More: No Country For Old Men, Tommy Lee Jones, Cormac McCarthy, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Adaptation

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