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		<title>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toward the end of Tomas Alfredson’s film of John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, an elusive double-agent, who’s betrayed British state secrets to the Soviet Union for over 20 years, defends his decision to have done so on aesthetic grounds. And you can hardly blame the bloke, considering the portrait of early-’70s London that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2012/01/26/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy/</link>
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		<title>A Dangerous Method</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek once said that the goal of traditional psychoanalysis was to help patients overcome their internal prohibitions so that life could be freely enjoyed; but that “the problem today is that the commandment of the ruling ideologies is ‘enjoy.’” In other words, society now promotes what it used to require we repress. What happened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2012/01/19/a-dangerous-method/</link>
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		<title>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every yuppie’s uncle has read and raved about Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; but, having been burned by other such business-class classics as Angels and Demons, I couldn’t kick back the inertia enough to get past page five—especially since David Fincher, by directing the Hollywood version, seemed poised to render a time-consuming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2012/01/12/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/</link>
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		<title>The Descendants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Descendants is an escape to the ordinary. Alexander Payne’s first feature since Sideways is also his second since leaving Nebraska; it proves afresh that you can take the director out of Omaha, but you can’t take Omaha out of the director. At least that’s the message encoded in the opening monologue—one I was happy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2011/12/29/the-descendants/</link>
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		<title>Hugo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big airports have always fascinated me. Thousands of passengers zipline back and forth on any given day: maybe on business, maybe coming home, maybe for a layover—perhaps as a tourist or gadabout. It’s a model U.N., with representatives from every part of the world trying to get to every other, but few transients stop to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2011/12/15/hugo/</link>
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		<title>The Artist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People speak of The Artist as if its being a black-and-white silent film were a liability. As if the Weinsteins were taking a risk tantamount to installing hand cranks in the whole bevy of new Beamers. But that assumes that The Artist is an audacious work of art, and not the screen equivalent of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2011/12/08/the-artist/</link>
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		<title>The Muppets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to get a Jim Henson contact high from watching The Muppets—even if, as Dana Stevens eloquently puts it, it’s just as easy to “kvetch and cavil about the details” like Statler and Waldorf, the ever-senescent season-ticket holders counted on to lob verbal tomatoes from the balcony. We begin the journey in Smalltown, U.S.A., [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2011/12/01/the-muppets/</link>
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		<title>Melancholia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the hallmarks of a depressed mind is what Travis Bickle called “morbid self-attention.” Perhaps that explains why the depressed mind behind Melancholia—the film that Lars von Trier was supposedly trying to promote during his foot-in-mouth outbreak at Cannes this year—is so acute at describing the condition, as well as the delusions that always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2011/11/17/melancholia/</link>
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		<title>The Rum Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe the consensus is correct: Maybe The Rum Diary should’ve been called The Rum Diarrhea. Without tipping the scale from mildly clever to insouciantly crass, the film’s narrative sense is slushy—as if all involved were taking their orders from Captain Morgan, rather than screenwriter-director Bruce Robinson—and, yes, I dare say, it gets runny. But some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2011/11/03/the-rum-diary/</link>
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		<title>Tabloid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The confessional documentary is as morally gray as a tabloid and as potentially colorless as a broadsheet. If a subject is made to play the fool, whose fault is it? Are they marionettes or the scene-stealing stars of their own one-man shows? Embedded in those answers is our permission to exercise an alienable right that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2011/10/27/tabloid/</link>
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