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  1. movie review
    Movie Review: Saving Mr. BanksStarring Tom Hanks as Walt Disney.
  2. movie review
    Edelstein: David O. Russell Goes Balls-Out in American HustleStarring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Lawrence.
  3. movie review
    Movie Review: Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesWill Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, and friends all reprise their roles.
  4. obits
    Edelstein on Peter O’Toole, 1932–2013For much of his career, O’Toole fought against his iconic role as T.E. Lawrence.
  5. year in culture 2013
    David Edelstein’s 10 Best Movies of 2013Her, American Hustle, The Act of Killing, and more. Plus, the runners-up and the best performances of the year.
  6. movie review
    Edelstein: Out of the Furnace Is Comically SeriousThe avenging Christian Bale does what Liam Neeson would have done ten times as well in a tenth of the time.
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    Edelstein on Spike Lee’s Oldboy: A Brutal Yet Unmemorable ExerciseA remake of the 2003 South Korean revenge picture.
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    Edelstein on Cold Turkey: A Simmering Piece of Holiday Family DystopiaPeter Bogdanovich stars as the patriarch of a messed-up family home for Thanksgiving.
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    Edelstein on Philomena: Calling Out the Catholic Church, GentlyStarring Judi Dench as a former nurse in search of a son she once gave over to a convent.
  10. movie review
    Edelstein on The Hunger Games: Catching FireRelatively speaking, Catching Fire is terrific.
  11. movie review
    Edelstein: There’s a Gnarled Grace to Alexander Payne’s NebraskaStarring Bruce Dern as a man who believes he’s won a million dollars.
  12. end of culture
    30 Great Movies You Probably Haven’t SeenPlus: 20 commercially unavailable movies you should watch online (and only if you know where to look).
  13. movie review
    Movie Review: The Armstrong LieAlex Gibney directs this documentary about cyclist Lance Armstrong.
  14. movie review
    Movie Review: Thor: The Dark WorldNatalie Portman and Tom Hiddleston co-star in the latest Marvel sequel.
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    Edelstein on 12 Years a Slave: A Stark, Smashingly Effective MelodramaStarring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Brad Pitt.
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    Edelstein on Ender’s Game: A Chilly, Unromantic View of Space WarStarring Asa Butterfield as the title character in a film based on Orson Scott Card’s 1985 novel.
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    Edelstein: About Time Is a Sunday-Morning Time-Travel MovieFrom the director of Love Actually.
  18. movie review
    Movie Review: Dallas Buyers ClubStarring Matthew McConaughey as a drug-smuggling AIDS patient.
  19. cutting room floor
    Edelstein and Ebiri: 10 Horror Movies That Almost Made Our Best ListIf only we could have gone to 35.
  20. movie review
    Edelstein: You’ve Never Seen a Love Story Like Blue Is the Warmest ColorPeople who’ve been through a terrible recent breakup should approach Blue Is the Warmest Color with care.
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    Movie Review: CarrieChloë Grace Moretz stars as Stephen King’s deadly prom queen.
  22. movie review
    Edelstein: The Fifth Estate Is a Feeble, Reactionary MovieStarring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange.
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    Edelstein: Robert Redford Gives a Career Best Performance in All Is LostA one-man, almost dialogue-free survival tale by the director of Margin Call.
  24. movie review
    Edelstein: Tom Hanks Is Better Than Ever in Captain PhillipsThe way he disappears into the character here is unprecedented.
  25. movie review
    Edelstein: Let the Fire Burn Is a Triumph of Documentary FormJason Osder’s electrifying film examines the events of May 13, 1985, when the Philadelphia police department wiped out a city block with a bomb.
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    Edelstein on Alfonso Cuarón’s GravityOn one level, Gravity is nothing new. But then there’s the part that’s—as we serious cinephiles like to say—infuckingcredible.
  27. movie review
    Movie Review: Don JonCo-starring Scarlett Johansson and Tony Danza.
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    Movie Review: Thanks for SharingStarring Mark Ruffalo as a sex addict, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Josh Gad.
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    Movie Review: PrisonersStarring Hugh Jackman as the father of a kidnapped child.
  30. movie review
    Movie Review: Enough SaidStarring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini in one of his last roles.
  31. movie review
    Movie Review: Blue CapriceStarring Isaiah Washington as one of the 2002 Beltway snipers.
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    Movie Review: The FamilyRobert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this Luc Besson action comedy.
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    Edelstein on Mother of George: When Motherhood is DestinyA Nigerian Brooklynite struggles to conceive in this film starring The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira.
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    Movie Review: SalingerShane Salerno’s bio-documentary attempts to uncover the mystery behind the Catcher in the Rye author.
  35. the critics
    Vulture’s Labor Day Weekend Movie RoundupVulture’s movie critics want to make sure you’re well advised on how to spend your last summer weekend at the cinema.
  36. movie review
    Edelstein: Short Term 12 Is the Most Wrenching Drama I’ve Seen This YearStarring Brie Larson as a counselor at a foster facility for abused and unstable kids.
  37. fall preview 2013
    What Our Critics Are Anticipating This FallWhat they can’t wait to read, see, and hear this season.
  38. fall preview 2013
    Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig on Getting Entangled in BetrayalThe real-life husband and wife wrestle with adultery … and Pinteresque pauses … on Broadway.
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    Edelstein: The World’s End Is the Year’s Most Entertaining MovieThe third film in director Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto Trilogy” with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
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    Edelstein: The Butler Is Crudely Powerful Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, who observes history from the White House sidelines.
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    Edelstein: Lovelace Lets Down Its SubjectThe porn star biopic never goes deep enough.
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    Edelstein: Elysium Is No District 9Neill Blomkamp’s action movie hits its marks, but slides into dumb melodrama.
  43. movie review
    Edelstein on The Canyons: Howler From the HillsThe Canyons is the Lindsay Lohan comeback you were expecting, sadly.
  44. movie review
    Edelstein on The Spectacular Now: Being a Teenager Hurts So GoodStarring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller.
  45. movie review
    Edelstein on The Wolverine: Hugh Jackman’s Logan Goes EastThe fifth feature-length appearance of Hugh Jackman’s X-Man is basically The Bad News Wolverine Goes to Japan.
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    Movie Review: Blue JasmineCate Blanchett stars alongside Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Dice Clay as a modern Blanche DuBois.
  47. movie review
    Movie Review: The Act of KillingIn this nonfiction film, director Josh Oppenheimer convinces Indonesian war criminals to dress up and reenact some of their violent atrocities.
  48. movie review
    Movie Review: BlackfishThis is one of those docs during which audiences gasp and cry out — or just cry — at regular intervals.
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    Movie Review: Only God ForgivesRyan Gosling re-teams with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn in this violent revenge melodrama.
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    Edelstein: Fruitvale Station Will Rock Your WorldMichael B. Jordan breaks out in the terrific film based on a true story.
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