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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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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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  • By R. Kurt Osenlund
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  • May 15, 2012 8:55 AM
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More: R. Kurt Osenlund, Gangster Squad, Trailer Mix, Ruben Fleischer, Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling

TRAILER MIX: RUBY SPARKS

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Trumpeting the long-awaited sophomore effort of "Little Miss Sunshine" creators Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the trailer for "Ruby Sparks" tackles that age-old challenge of visualizing the tribulations of a writer, which are inherently and notoriously un-cinematic.
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  • By R. Kurt Osenlund
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  • May 8, 2012 8:55 AM
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More: R. Kurt Osenlund, Trailer Mix, Ruby Sparks, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris

BONUS TRAILER MIX: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

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At the end of "The Dark Knight," Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) had to explain to his son why Batman (Christian Bale) was being willfully chased by police—disgracing himself and abandoning his post for the greater good of Gotham. The new trailer for "The Dark Knight Rises" zeroes in on the sleepy void that abandonment left behind.
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  • By R. Kurt Osenlund
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  • May 2, 2012 12:30 PM
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TRAILER MIX: MAGIC MIKE vs. COYOTE UGLY

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Films that showcase nightlife as a business have a way of settling into their guilt, reminding us that parties have moral consequences despite being the main attraction (think "54," which uses a whole institution to symbolize nightlife's rise and fall).
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  • By R. Kurt Osenlund
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  • May 1, 2012 8:59 AM
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More: R. Kurt Osenlund, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh, Coyote Ugly, Trailer Mix

TRAILER MIX: LOOPER

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Sometimes a trailer's ability to sell a novel concept can make you forget its otherwise ordinary construction.
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  • By R. Kurt Osenlund
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  • April 17, 2012 9:00 AM
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