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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: With The…

The A.V. Club’s list of 2013’s best films was a group effort, a mathematically assembled aggregate of seven separate…

Most movies are about relationships—between law and order, between desire and duty, between the past and the…

Cinematic greatness comes in many shapes, forms, and running times. Not all of it is spread across the length of an…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: In…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Just in…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The…

1. Nat King Cole, “Mona Lisa” (1950)
Most songs are inspired by songwriters’ emotions or a story that they want to…

When Merry Clayton ends her stories with “… and the rest is history,” she’s not exaggerating. Although her profile…

1. Stop Making Sense (1984), Jonathan Demme
The promotional efforts for Jonathan Demme’s 1984 collaboration with…

It’s no surprise that John Frankenheimer’s Seconds wasn’t a hit when it was released in 1966. What’s…

The monsters that menace an Irish island town in Grabbers come from outer space, but the movie might be the result…

Midway through Cameron and Colin Cairnes’ 100 Bloody Acres, a character who’s tripping on acid and running for his…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: As The…

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They…

Perhaps the most baffling aspect of The Look Of Love, Michael Winterbottom’s portrait of British pornographer Paul…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Instead…

Josef Stalin probably didn’t really say “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic,” but there’s a reason…

What song do you want played at your funeral?

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: World…