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...secreto de sus ojos” (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) is meant to explore the nature of violence, to question the human passion for the destructive, to honor sacrifice in the name of friendship, and to consider the potential for a love that either cuts across socioeconomic class or “freezes in time.” The film does, in one way or another, include all of these motifs, but it presents them in a way that is so cliché and fragmented that their meaning, for the most part...
...mail first sent out on the Wigglesworth e-mail list advertising a dining hall party by the name of "Let's Have Sex in Cabot" had some undergrads scratching their heads over whether Cabot had suddenly become a much more attractive place to live...
Produced a mere three years after the release of the 2007 British independent film of the same name, the movie is a case study of the absurd—it settles into a vein of ridiculous circumstances early on, and this proves to be the defining attribute of the film, from the opening scene to the end credits...
When it comes to sketching Jewish tradition, and the life of New Walden’s Hasidim, however, Goldstein’s understanding is slightly weaker. She gets the names of Hasidic customs wrong—dubbing the mystical Hasidic custom of waiting to cut a boy’s hair until his third birthday an “upshneering” instead of the Yiddish “upsherin”—and her Klapper character deduces the numerical value of his Hebrew name using a form of gematria so obscure that Goldstein is either being very...
...They were throwing good strike pitches, challenging their batters, and we got some key hits, we got timely hits,” Allard said. “The name of the game is great pitching, good defense, and timely hits...