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Beyond the Hills
A bleak look at religion from the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days.
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The Snark Machine
How Twitter’s funniest comedians and Twitter’s smartest critics are reacting to the Oscars.
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When Box-Office Hits Get Nominated, Do Oscar Ratings Go Up?
A detailed analysis, with charts.
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Let's Talk Oscars
For the first time since 2007, not one of the Best Picture nominees is a stinking embarrassment.
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The Slate Culture Staff Oscar Pool
Who will win? See our picks for every award—and read Slatesters’ explanations for the most foolhardy ones.
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The Myth of the Movie Musical Renaissance
Why do people keep saying the genre is coming back?
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Does Oprah Get Thanked More Than God?
No, but Meryl does. Crunching the numbers on a decade-plus of Oscar acceptance speeches.
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Side Effects
Steven Soderbergh’s latest—and last?—film starts out as a pharmaceutical drama and turns into something else.
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Werner Herzog Says These Siberians Skinning Sable in -33 Degree Weather Are Happy People
And who am I to disagree?
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In Praise of Artisanal Horror
Mama and John Dies at the End want to scare you—their way.
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Going All the Way
The late Nagisa Oshima’s erotic, transgressive In the Realm of the Senses isn’t about sex. It is sex.
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I’m Pretty Sure I Saw Broken City the Other Day
But this thriller is so generic I can’t be 100 percent sure.
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Les Misérables
Very few performers can sing vocally demanding, dramatic solos while a movie camera inspects their nostrils.
