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Fast & Furious 6

Squarely state-of-the-art, "Fast 6" is not a great action movie. It has all the ingredients, including a cast that flaunts infectious group chemistry, but its…

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Epic

The latest from Blue Sky Studio ("Ice Age," "Rio") is different from whatever Pixar/Disney or any other big animation outfit happens to be offering this…

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Ballad of Narayama

"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…

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Monsieur Hire

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Kinyarwanda

Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho discusses "Kinyarwanda," a powerful look at the genocide in Rwanda.

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Kinyarwanda

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Strategies of a Pub Dog

Marie Haws found this cartoon for the latest issue of the Ebert Club Newsletter. She writes: "It's by the British cartoonist/animator behind the Daily Express' cartoon strip "Bewley." Ant Blades has designed a series of clever shorts for BBC Comedy and various commercial clients under the signature "Sketchy" as produced by Bird Box Studio, an indie animation house in London, England." Marie is herself an artist and animator.

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