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Encore

The Lives of Others

By Violet Lucca
November 10, 2016
Margaret’s case study of an adolescent compulsively testing the limits of experience

Encore: The Baby

By Maitland McDonagh
November 4, 2013
Journeyman Ted Post hit the dysfunctional-family mother lode with The Baby

The Damned

By José B. Capino
May 31, 2011
Philippine filmmaking legend Lino Brocka’s infernal 1976 melodrama Insiang

In the Cut

By Melissa Anderson
May 31, 2011
Frank Perry’s Play It As It Lays is hard to find, and sometimes hard to watch

Dead Man Walking

By Geoffrey O’Brien
May 26, 2011
Peter Yates’s low-key 1973 crime drama The Friends of Eddie Coyle gave Robert Mitchum one of his greatest roles

Long Goodbyes

By Kent Jones
May 12, 2011
This underrated 1975 remake of Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely gives us the final, dying afterimage of a vanished era