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• Best of the Twin Cities 2012: Shopping & Services

  Browse all the 2012 winners in the Shopping & Services category. More >>

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  Marley at Lagoon Cinema

  By Melissa Anderson

  Thoroughly researched and packed with phenomenal archival footage, Kevin Macdonald's documentary on the reggae and Rasta emissary, who died of... More >>

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  MSPIFF: Susan Marks's documentary Of Dolls And Murder

  By Ed Huyck

  When most of us think of dollhouses, we conjure images of sweet little girls hosting miniature tea parties: cute, but hardly a subject worth... More >>

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  MSPIFF 2012: Reviews

  By Ed Huyck

  Alps Monday, April 16, at 9:15 p.m.Thursday, April 19, at 9:20 p.m. Countless films have examined the fine line between acting and... More >>

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  The Kid with a Bike directed by the Dardenne brothers

  By Karina Longworth

  The Kid with a Bike, the new film from Belgian art-house legends Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, begins with Cyril, a scrappy 11-year-old living in... More >>

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  Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye profiles Throbbing romance

  By Karina Longworth

  "You fall in love with someone, and there's this moment where you just want to consume each other and not be individuals anymore. We had that so... More >>

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  Footnote is Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee

  By Karina Longworth

  In the first scene of Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi)—a fortysomething Talmudic... More >>

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  The Hunger Games rages against our stupid culture

  By Melissa Anderson

  "If no one watches, then they don't have a game," a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne... More >>

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  Jason Segel in Jeff, Who Lives at Home

  By Brian Miller

  It's obvious that Jason Segel has a face for comedy. He's got a lumpy, sad-sack mug with a dozen inflections to register disappointment,... More >>

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  In Darkness dramatizes another Holocaust horror

  By Michael Atkinson

  Holocaust culture has proven to be essentially infinite. Almost 70 years after the end of World War II, stories of decimation and survival are... More >>

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  Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

  By J. Hoberman

  A couple of months into 2012, we already have a favorite for the new year's best movie: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in... More >>

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  Win your Oscar office pool

  By Matt Singer

  Every year, you enter your office's Oscar pool and carefully select the major categories while haphazardly guessing the minor ones. Every year,... More >>

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  Reese Witherspoon in This Means War

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Hostilities are declared in This Means War as two workmates compete for the affection of the same woman. The contested objective is Lauren (Reese... More >>

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  Oscar-nominated shorts in brief

  By Tim Grierson

  This year's Academy Award-nominated shorts at the Lagoon Cinema offer a little something for every viewing temperament, though in 2012 the best... More >>

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  Chronicle uses found-footage storytelling

  By Aaron Hillis

  In our status-updated, YouTubed, and retweeted age of self-documentation, does the "faux-found-footage" genre—popularized by The Blair... More >>

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