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      • (2/6) For the Dark
      • (3/6) For the Drama
      • (4/6) For the Laughs
      • (5/6) For the Family
      • (6/6) – Guilty Pleasures
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      • 12 Years a Slave (A+)
      • 2001: a space odyssey
      • About Time (C)
      • American Hustle (A-)
      • Argo (A)
      • Beasts of the Southern Wild
      • Bernie
      • The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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      • Higher Ground
      • The Hobbit
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      • Insomnia
      • Jeff, Who Lives at Home
      • Joe Versus the Volcano
      • Kalifornia (B+)
      • The Kids Are All Right
      • Kiki’s Delivery Service
      • Kumaré (B+)
      • Life of Pi
      • Lincoln
      • Looper
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      • Maleficent (B)
      • Martha Marcy May Marlene
      • Monuments Men (A-)
      • Moon
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      • Mud
      • Nebraska (B-)
      • Noah (C)
      • Patang (The Kite)
      • Philomena (A-)
      • Primer (C++)
      • Prisoners (B)
      • Prometheus
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      • River’s Edge – film review
      • The Road – on film and in print
      • Safety Not Guaranteed
      • “Saving Mr. Banks” – film review (B)
      • Silver Linings Playbook
      • Skyfall
      • “Sleepwalk with Me” – film review
      • Source Code – film review
      • “The Spectacular Now” – not quite spectacular – film review
    • T-Z
      • Ebertfest 2012 – Take Shelter
      • Ebertfest 2012 – Terri
      • Revisiting Film Classics – “The Third Man”
      • The Tree of Life – film review
      • Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”
      • The Way Way Back – film review (B)
      • “The Woodsman” film review
      • Zero Dark Thirty
  • on life
    • Hey, Hyphenate This!
    • chicken vs. egg – part 3
    • – i am old
    • – philly sucks
    • – should college athletes get paid?
    • – The Lost Art of Disagreement
    • – the second amendment
    • – what i’ve learned, so far, about parenting
    • – where the jobs have gone
    • are giftcards good to buy for the holidays?
    • chicken or the egg?
    • creationism, a.k.a intelligent design, v. evolution
  • the rise and fall of me
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 1
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 2
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 3
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 4
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 5
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 6
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 7
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 8
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 9
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 11
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 12
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 13
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    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 15
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    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 18
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 19
    • The Rise and Fall of Me – 20/20 – Epilogue

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One-Minute Book Reviews, vol. 10

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Apple Tree Yard – Louise Doughty
UR – Stephen King
A Head Full of Ghosts – Paul Tremblay
In the Tall Grass – Stephen Kind and Joe Hill

August 10, 2015 in book review.

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