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4.5/5 |
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"This 'unmaking-of' documentary is as mesmerisingly compelling as its subject might have been, and adds some splendidly disorienting reels to the cinema of anxiety. Unmissable - even if we all missed the film at its centre."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"Demarbre's direction is at times clunkily pedestrian, but there is definitely something to the film's genetic themes and ambiguous ending that might just broaden the horizons of any Greene fans who have come expecting another Twilight"
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"it abandons these models of action, comedy and the supernatural, preferring instead to root its horror in the grimly realistic human drama of four random wanderers gradually losing everyone and everything that they hold dear."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Occupying similar territory to Heathers (1988), Ginger Snaps (2000) and Teeth (2007), Karyn Kusama's film is sharp, witty and diabolically funny"
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"amid all its man-traps, macho posturing and monetary moralising, this is an overfamiliar exercise in by-numbers filmmaking that always seems merely to be coasting on auto-pilot. No wonder it took the wrong turn..."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"As always, Romero uses his zombie framework to expose the monstrousness of the living, in this case focusing on the (self-)destructive human need for divisive lines in the sand."
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Eye for Film |
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"a Tokyo Story (or six) about urban alienation - although Ozu never thought to include a talking penis in his oeuvre. Masayuki Miyano's debut may be flashily outrageous and upbeat, but its laughs are rooted in the misery of modern humanity."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"It's a bit of The Exorcist, a bit of Poltergeist, a bit of The Blair Witch Project and a bit of Lost Highway - and it all adds up to a whole lot of scary."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"As an anatomisation of the insular envy, malice and brutality that would lead to the rise of Nazism, The White Ribbon is clinically precise - but also just a little dull."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"Nymph is ultimately like [its] lengthy opening shot - deliberately paced, oblique and somewhat meandering... and leaving the viewer to puzzle out what they have seen, and what might have gone on in the shadowy ellipses that have remained off-screen"
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"An affecting blend of warm comedy and high pathos, The Boys Are Back brings an unusual all-male perspective to its otherwise familiar themes of domesticity, death and dysfunction."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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"Ambitious, inventive and endlessly arresting, Sion Sono's epic romance is a vibrant rite of passage, guiding us through a world of repression, hypocrisy and delusion towards true love."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"There is something a bit bland, a bit kitchen sink, a bit telemovie, about this portrait of the artist as a young man."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"Sadik Ahmed is less interested in cowboy movie pastiche than in an intense drama of misunderstandings, madness and murder."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"there is something traditional, something classical, in the festively macabre stories that fill Dougherty's script"
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"Atkins manages to convey a mass of information in a highly palatable form, at the same time as prompting his viewers to challenge and scrutinise everything that they see and hear - including, of course, his own arguments."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Christianity collides with paganism, nature rubs up against culture, heaven is confused with hell, and everything in this sparse allegorical landscape takes on the metaphysical qualities of a symbol."
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Eye for Film |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Pamela Pettler's screenplay sucks out the very soul of Acker's original creations, leaving little behind but a ghost-like shell, pretty to look at, but free from any substance"
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"for all its gripping excitement as a thriller, and its grim realism as a sociopolitical exposé of life inside, A Prophet is also concerned with the mysterious processes of education, assimilation and transfiguration."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"Like many a cadaver, Colin certainly has its share of roughnesses and blemishes, but these can be overlooked for the memory of the life that was. It is an elegy for the end of days, full of love, loss and hopeless longing."
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"ineptly scripted, amateurishly edited, poorly acted, ugly looking and determinedly adolescent in its focus. Worst of all, it is entirely without subtext - and a zombie flick without subtext is like a bottle without the wine."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"a fantastic adaptation that manages to surpass its source material while staying entirely true to its spirit."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"pure, stripped-down bleakness, both in the desaturated drabness of its appearance and in the last-days essentialism of its themes."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"it is only after the closing credits have rolled and your fists have unclenched that the film's ambiguities and irrationalities return, not unlike Dalle's creepy 'femme', to haunt you."
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Little White Lies |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Without question Smith's most mature film to date, and one of the best (and most bewildering) genre films of 2009."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This unsettlingly quirky account of semiological breakdown and small-town apocalypse plays like My Winnipeg for fans of intellectual horror. Pontypool is as astonishing as it is original, and amply repays multiple viewings."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Raw, harrowing and unforgiving, Johnny Mad Dog is hardly easy to enjoy, but impossible to forget."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"No film by Herzog has ever been so defiantly mainstream - and yet this remains one of the director's craziest, most outlandish affairs. Finding a way out the other side of that contradiction is half the fun for the incredulous viewer"
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Eye for Film |
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(1958) |
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"commenting on the difficult dynamic between freedom and control within any system... it is an important missing link between the cinéma du papa and the emerging nouvelle vague"
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Little White Lies |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The heart of Thirst may be a vampire film but its soul is a morality play, while its flesh is a sensuous playground of desire."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Ip Man is a highly competent, even slick biopic, but by reshaping its protagonist's life story towards cinematic convention, it ends up being just another martial arts movie."
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Channel 4 Film |
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Without resorting to cheap frights or bogeymen, Vinyan locates its horror in the human heart of darkness."
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"shows a real adeptness at confounding the viewer with all manner of genre-bound elements presented in gleefully unpredictable combinations... which merge into a much bigger picture, way beyond the bounds of conventional genre cinema"
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"a slick, serviceable nature's revenge flick...[but] one can almost feel the clashing instincts of McLean and his Hollywood executive producers the Weinsteins, with the hokey spirit of Crocodile Dundee winning out in the end."
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Little White Lies |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A funride through zombified American society, full of genuinely hilarious lines and situations."
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"Without resorting to cheap frights or bogeymen, Vinyan locates its horror in the human heart of darkness."
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Little White Lies |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"From its bleakly comic beginning to its fire-and-brimstone ending, this artful trailer-trash quasi-biopic will set your heart pounding and your feet tapping."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"As a hyperbolic exposé of unnatural obesity and environmental destruction, in many ways this serves as an unacknowledged prequel to the post-apocalyptic nightmare envisaged in Wall-E. Chew (and choke) on that!"
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Little White Lies |
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(2006) |
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"[a] sense of something presented merely in embryo, but full of suggestion and possibility, marks most of the material in this collection... no fan of Lynch will be able to resist peering into this box of half-formed ideas."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Add to this some winningly low-key performances, a slacker sensibility that refuses to subscribe to the American Dream, and some genuine laughs, and you have a film that feels both wise and real."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Like the ubiquitous image that it celebrates, this documentary says many things about history, culture and ideology, without ever seeming anything less than clear and compelling."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"as horror in the thrill-ride mould, The Descent: Part 2 certainly delivers cheap sensations aplenty."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"West... has all at once crafted a film that beautifully reproduces the look and texture of a straight-to-video horror from the '80s, and filled it with the sort of nail-biting tension that works in any decade."
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"an intelligent, moving depiction of a world gone to hell, dripping with the melancholy of a 'hero' driven by a yearning that he is incapable any longer of understanding."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"As beautiful as anything the animation house has yet produced (and their first feature in 3D), it is at times meandering and not a little mawkish, but its vivid primary colours conceal a great deal of shaded nuance."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"throws up so many Freudian slips, mixed metaphors and free-associative leaps that in the end the main characters' (and our own) grip on reality comes unstuck, and the unfolding apocalypse takes on a positively Saussurean aspect."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"An uncategorisable exploration of the contradictions to be found in Franco-African identity... where a whole history of crime, poverty and colonial exploitation are portrayed through mythology as a clash of the totems."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"It is a film very much about its own audience, confronting us all with the insatiable sadism and voyeurism of those who seek to dispel their own innermost fears vicariously."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"Glasson's feature debut boasts both writing and performances of great subtlety, although the effect is somewhat undermined by the odd moment of sensationalist grotesquery (fish-fellating, eye-gouging, flashbacks to patricide, etc.)."
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"disinter[s] the kind of gleefully big-and-bloody horror comedy showcased by films like The Evil Dead (1981) and Braindead (1992)."
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Little White Lies |
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