If I were to make a top 10 list of my favorite movie top 10 lists, the alt-weekly snobs at the Village Voice and the LA Weekly would be on there somewhere. Like Film Comment and IndieWire (with whom this list bears striking resemblances), they try a little too hard to convince us they’re smarter [...]

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Daniel Craig in Defiance
Because of the holiday, the new release calendar is kind of in limbo, but two movies are being released today in New York and Los Angeles with misguided hopes for some kind of Oscar action. Suffice it to say that one is called Good and the other is just bad.

Defiance. As directed [...]

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