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Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Ida' at Sundance
Stumbling upon Ida at Sundance felt like participating in the celebration of independent film that you may not see anywhere else.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman: An appreciation
Philip Seymour Hoffman was an actor who turned out to be better at inhabiting his characters' skin than his own.

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‘Hannah Arendt’: A gender issue (follow-up)
Seduced and deceived: Can we talk, please, about women and Nazis?
Could it be that both Hannah Arendt and her film biographer Margarethe von Trotta shared a degree of attraction to sadistic men that led them both to overlook the evil sadism in men like Adolf Eichmann?

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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s fade to black
The life of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died Sunday, resembles his art a little too closely, unfortunately.
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Stephen Frears’s ‘Philomena’ (2nd comment)
When the Church did something right: A social worker’s story
Philomena deservedly paints the Catholic Church in its most deceptive and manipulative light. But my experience with the U.S. Church in the 1960s was a very different story.

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Martin Luther King at Riverside Church
When MLK broke with LBJ
Tavis Smiley’s two-part program on the Riverside Church speech in which Martin Luther King denounced the Vietnam War was a welcome exception to the annual ritual that diminishes King’s actual legacy.

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Oscars you can bet on
How I spent my snow days and learned to love them
If you haven't finalized your picks in this year's Oscar pool, here's one man's take.

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Stephen Frears's ‘Philomena’ (1st review)
An outrage in Ireland, but who’s responsible?
Stephen Frears’s Philomena is the true story of an outrage, but it suffers dramatically by focusing almost entirely on the anguished victims rather than the perpetrators.

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Martin Scorsese's 'Wolf of Wall Street'
Why do we love wolves?
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is well on its way to making more than $100 million. The fact that it’s a hit should not surprise anyone. Bad guys sell tickets.

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The end of the television antihero
Breaking up with the bad boy
Many are calling this a Golden Age of Television, with a plethora of dramas examining morally complex antiheroes. How complex are they, really, though?
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