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ScarJo’s Alien Seductress
PredatorThe ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’ plays an otherworldly being who lures men to a dark room with the promise of kiss kiss bang bang. Is there a better metaphor for movie-going?
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‘Nymphomaniac’ Not About the Sex
Fire of My LoinsWhile you are engineered to fixate on all that naked grunting in 'Nymphomaniac,' you might miss Charlotte Gainsbourg in the most raw and intense performance of the year.
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The First ‘True Detective’
Obsessive-Compulsive Noir<p>Two detectives and millions of viewers consumed with solving wayward clues in the hunt for a killer—we’re talking about <i>Twin Peaks</i>, of course.</p>
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'Japan’s Beethoven' Olympics Shame
Thin IceTurns out, a beloved deaf composer who ‘wrote’ music for the Olympics is neither deaf nor a composer—and his scandal threatens to derail his country’s figure-skating hopes.
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This Week’s Hot Reads
Fun and Thrills<p>Three novels that make for clever and fun reading: from a <i>Lost</i>-like fantasy to a satire of the Irish boom.</p>
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Confession of a Nazi Collaborator
The Sorrow and the Pity<p>Claude Lanzmann, the director of the Holocaust masterpiece <i>Shoah</i>, controversially falls under the spell of a Jewish collaborator of the death camps.</p>
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This Week’s Hot Reads
OriginsFrom a look at the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the life of the American poet E.E. Cummings.
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The Oscar Foreign Film Festival
Screening RoomThe start of every year brings a swell of great international movies that miss out on being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Can Robots Fall in Love?
A.I.<p>The interesting question raised by Spike Jonze’s new film, <i>Her</i>, is not whether humans can fall in love with computers,but whether computers would ever have emotions.</p>
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The Year in Death
LivesYou’ve already read the major obits. From Hitler’s bodyguard to the godmother of burlesque, the human computer to the world’s ugliest dog, the 2013 exits you have may not have heard of.
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