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...this a political thriller? In part, yes. The film has whispered conspiracies, a typewriter smuggled inside a cake box, the sexual compromising of a beautiful woman, a violent death. But those are mere trappings of a social structure that puts everyone at mortal risk, the spies no less than the spied upon. The narrative is a noose, tightening around all the characters--and the moviegoer...
...formal qualities of the photographs focus on the physical building and treat the marginally-placed children as mere units of account—their illegible faces indicating the temporality of their stay...
...Best Seller List.You know your friend who always has the sappy, poorly-worded quotes for her away messages? She’s quoting Mitch Albom. As a graduate of D.A.R.E., I can recognize Albom for what he truly is: the gateway drug to bad literature. Far more insidious than mere marijuana, Albom is the slippery slope that leads well-adjusted people to venture into the land of self-help books.Self-help books were once fair game for public mockery. The perception was that they were primarily read by the audience you imagine watching Lifetime Original Movies—lonely, middle...
...Forget About You.” Best of all, Nas and Jay-Z reconcile on the triumphant “Black Republicans." It might finally be time to accept the post-”Illmatic” Nas. His effortless flow throughout the album and his mere happiness to be on the mic suggest that this is nothing less than another hip-hop classic...
...whatever that means. It opens up with a riff that sounds like something straight out of a Psychedelic Furs song and then the high-pitched harmonies of the band bounce in. Even the transition into part two of the “concerto”—a mere 90 seconds into the song—can’t ruin the pop bliss that came before. In fact, despite all of The Apples in Stereo’s attempts to make the album brainy and conceptual, the result is something that constantly retreads old waters. The upbeat syncopation...