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Review: The Pirogue

By Jonathan Robbins
January 22, 2013
Senegalese documentarian Moussa Touré returns with a candid fictional feature

Sundance Diary #2

By John Wildman
January 21, 2013
“Mom, THIS is Sunny Dance!”

Sundance Diary #1

By John Wildman
January 18, 2013
Arriving in Park City

Review: The Last Stand

By Jonathan Robbins
January 18, 2013
A bit of the old ultraviolence

Critical Dialogue: Django Unchained

By Max Nelson
January 17, 2013
Leading through bleeding: how (or how not) to portray violent culture on screen

Interview: Yeşim Ustaoğlu

By Meredith Slifkin
January 16, 2013
The Turkish director of Araf: Somewhere in Between talks about the meaning of limbo and the film’s small-town success

Review: Hors Satan

By Mark Asch
January 15, 2013
Can you believe it? Bruno Dumont’s latest controlled experiment in faith

Review: The Baytown Outlaws

By John Wildman
January 14, 2013
Stars 'n' bars, y'all: enough gumption and gunplay for all of Dixieland

Review: Gangster Squad

By Sarah Mankoff
January 11, 2013
Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling swagger through an addled, amped-up imitation of a Los Angeles crime movie

Notebook: Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap

By Margaret Barton-Fumo
January 10, 2013
Are Ice and Coco the Straub-Huillet of Hip Hop?