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(1976) |
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"Thanks, Criterion, for keeping the film's mystique of fakery alive."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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"Fabled not only lacks contemporary and spiritual resonance but a satisfying closer."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Ozpetek's "fairy tale" hopes to get by on the good looks of its actors alone."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A spectacle of bad accidents, VH1 aesthetics, sketchy (almost nonexistent) period detail, and armchair psychology."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"If Fahrenheit 9/11 feels like a work in progress, that’s only natural—by film’s end, you get a sense that it'll never be finished until George W. Bush is too."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Failure to Launch is a not-so-distant cousin of those happy-go-lucky herpes commercials that play on television--it's so far out it scans as science fiction."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"It didn't fail at the box office, but there's no reason you should help launch its DVD afterlife."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"This idiotic crime comedy begins as a heated Sophia Petrillo flashback only to continue as a lobotomized Guy Ritchie caper."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Shunning logic and compassion, The Fall is a bedtime story impeccably designed to flatter its own maker."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Covers much of the same terrain as Pamela Yates's State of Fear but with considerably less insight."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1928) |
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"Through kaleidoscopic composition, Epstein affects Rorschach-like chiaroscuro, every image a dense, sludgy viscera, a looking glass held up to the audience and characters, daring us to pass through."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Burman's vision veers dangerously close to the apathetic, but his actors bring heart to a film that blares with fine details."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Chris Evans may not win an Oscar for his performance in Fantastic Four, but I see an AVN award in his future."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"This remarkable film's final shot evokes a changing season and perhaps a changing cultural tide."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"In essence, Lepage has remade 2001: A Space Odyssey without the Kubrick film's sense of spiritual curiosity."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The Clan of the Cave Bear has nothing on Atanarjuat, a sprawling three-hour epic that recounts the primal struggles of the Igloolik people."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A product of a modern Cosby mindset, Fat Albert conflates bourgeois acceptance with personal self-worth."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Catherine Breillat's vision is so deceptively tranquil that love becomes indistinguishable from rape."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"Fat Girl is noticeably slim in the extras department, but she looks and sounds better than ever."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1987) |
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"A meaty package for a 15-year-old film that did for the extra-marital affair what Jaws did for swimming."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1987) |
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"Sure, Alex may be little more than a bunny-boiling stalker but Fatal Attraction is still notable for Close's resilient, complex performance."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Unconventional Holocaust film sees its image possibly stripped of its lucidity for video, but it's an appealing presentation nonetheless."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Fateless suggests a new kind of emotionless Holocaust drama--a cannibalistic one."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Its cultural baggage is sketchy, but the film remains a funny, depressingly honest look at the soul-sucking drudgery of the corporate workspace."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1975) |
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"Fassbinder evokes a lecherous society’s desire to squeeze the life out of the woman during her moment of weakness."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Nicolas Winding Refn evokes grief as a Lynchian put-on."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Felon won't rock your world but may endear you to more than just Stephen Dorff's abdominal muscles."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Felon gives everyone their tidy and expected due but outlines a realistic enough cycle of how a man's life can easily spiral out of his control."
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Village Voice |
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(2002) |
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"Here’s something to watch over and over and over again, though some will be deconstructing other things besides Brian De Palma’s unconscious mise en scene."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"He superimposes her face over that of the film's many women, at once reinforcing the nature of the character's split self and the overall dreamlike momentum of the narrative."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Rock fans rejoice: Festival Express gets the red carpet treatment on this two-disc DVD set from New Line Home Entertainment."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1959) |
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"What with all the missives and writs of agenda waiting to be signed, Fever Mounts in El Pao is noticeably burdened by excess paperwork."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Fever Pitch is not just some comedy about two people meeting each other halfway, but something greater: a statement about the wheeling and dealing of a tradition."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Come for Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore but stay for the Farrelly Brothers' signature brand of romantic humanism."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"The intra-racial struggle between soul-straining gospel and secular pop music goes largely ignored in the film, but comes through loud in clear on the film’s soundtrack."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Very light in the extras department, this Fighting Temptations DVD is purely for fans of Beyoncé’s booty and you-know-who’s latest shrill performance."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Too bad the film is never as soulful as the songs the character’s sing."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"All you need to know about Claude Chabrol's new film is in its title, though a more apropos one might have been Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"It's through Scotty's "success" that writer-director James Westby is able to validate his own love for movies."
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Slant Magazine |
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"With this fourth volume in the Film Noir Classics series, you must take the good with the bad."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Scraggly and aimless, a little cartoonish but highly personable."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Campbell Scott's brutally claustrophobic direction is alleviated by Leary and Davis's unhysterical performances."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"It's like Death and Ingmar Bergman sitting around playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Shhhhh, don’t tell anyone: The image and sound quality on this DVD edition of Final Destination 2 is so mind-blowing, you may just want to put this one in your permanent collection."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A reminder of how low a filmmaker will sink to pander to our most corrupt tendencies."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A frigid and boring (albeit noble) adaptation of what is, argueably, the greatest and most profound of RPGs."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Finding Nemo merely transplants human suburban anxiety to an underwater realm."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Not as meaty as last year’s Monsters, Inc. DVD but certainly nowhere near as exhausting."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Note to Marc Forster: It’s sheep, not sheeps!"
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Fireproof stops becoming relatable to us all and only to the already, or easily, indoctrinated."
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L.A. Weekly |
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