Still, the filmmakers remind us that free soloists do, eventually, tend to die doing what they love, so let's hope there's no tragic sequel.

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It is a modern-day nightmare, driven by overfishing, environmentally unsound practices, and greed.

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The Ghost of Peter Sellers offers a slice of forgotten movie history that, it turns out, is well worth remembering.

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Elliptical, beautiful and narratively unconventional, Hale County This Morning, This Evening rewards the viewer with images and passages of incomparable power. Set in Alabama among middle- and lower-income African American communities...

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Imagine a government setting up an investment fund from taxpayer revenues and then using said monies for the personal enrichment of the leader. That could never happen here, right?

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 To each his/her own, and far be it for us to pass judgment on any of the people in this documentary for their life choices. Nevertheless...

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Like or dislike her reviews – and I do both – there is no denying her importance in the history of the movies.

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It's a vicious circle, which Decade of Fire meticulously deconstructs, also revealing how the Bronx went, up until the 1960s, from a prosperous, middle-class, multi-ethnic neighborhood to a place populated primarily by poor people of color.

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This is a movie that cat lovers of all stripes should enjoy watching. Indeed, I would call it meow-datory viewing.

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