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Are people more desperate or deluded or have my own critical faculties narrowed and deteriorated?
Concussion butts heads with the NFL; Point Break is pointless.
The unimportance of being too earnest.
The Big Short is a deftly sardonic piece of doomsday economic diagnosis that is as entertaining as it is alarming.
The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino’s richly textured love letter to B movies.
The best discussions are of Vertigo, with David Fincher, the most effective directorial voice of all those interviewed, leading the way.
Our demanding critics choose the best (and worst) films of the year.
Don’t you just love the holiday season? It’s the time for the release of big budget flops and Oscar wannabes.
Ruminations on age and memory are inevitably sunk deep into the flesh and the glue of personal relationships.

Film Commentary: Blink a Bright Red and Green — “Carol’’’s Holiday Charm
A guide to the symbolic color odyssey that will keep you on your toes if you choose to see Carol more than once (and I’m thinking you will).
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