How the video game The Last of Us fits into the growing catalog of post-apocalyptic media.
Movies
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Not That Exciting
Pedro Almodovar’s latest film, I’m So Excited! is less than thrilling but doesn’t spell the end of the famed Spanish director.
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Last Day of a Young Black Man
Fruitvale Station’s intimate portrait of Oscar Grant promises better days ahead for black film.
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Vacant Beauty, Boredom, and The Bling Ring
With her latest film, Sophia Coppola emerges as successor to Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, master of disaffection and alienation.
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All Tomorrow’s Parties
Gay Equality 1, Civil Rights 0 – join us in wondering how to celebrate this Fourth of July. (Hint: not by seeing Johnny Depp’s new movie, that’s for sure.)
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Burning Down the (White) House
White House Down, when ranked among the other dull offerings of this summer blockbuster season, is worth its weight in kabooms. You will be entertained.
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The Great Gandolfini
The actor’s genius was his knack for humanizing but not sentimentalizing his tough guy characters.
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Greta Gerwig, Dancing with Herself
The anti-celebrity of the Frances Ha star
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Star Bleck
The second entry in the J.J. Abrams’ reboot doesn’t have the fun of the first outing, and all that’s left is one more humongazoid, cluttered summer blockbuster whose gobbledygook plot just spackles over the interludes between kaboom-happy CGI set pieces.
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Da Gr8 Gatsbee
Nobody’s going to mistake Baz Luhrman’s adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic for a great movie. But, there’s no doubt it’s a fun ride.