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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Vinyl’: A record we’ve heard before

The much-buzzed HBO TV series ‘Vinyl’ is a slick rock-music production that’s peak Scorsese—but comes too late

TIFF 2014 Diary: Big Game’s Samuel L. Jackson is in it to win it

Highlights from the eighth day of the festival, including a butt-kicking POTUS and a philosophical Martin Scorsese

2013 at the movies: the year of the jerk

From The Wolf of Wall Street to Nebraska, moviegoers this year were surrounded by the most vile people ever imagined

How Hollywood’s release race is killing directors and costing Oscars

Barry Hertz on the pressure for filmmakers to be quicker, faster and stronger

Video: Spike Lee reveals Michael Jackson

Locating the artist behind the icon in ‘Bad 25,’ Spike does the right thing for the King of Pop

‘Surviving Progress’—the eco essay as eye candy

A seductive Canadian doc plays like the brainy love child of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and ‘Inside Job’

Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ is quietly enchanting. Imagine that.

Mr. Mean Streets unlocks a childhood fable about the birth of cinema

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‘Boardwalk Empire’ takes on ‘Mad Men’

HBO is hoping its new period drama can beat the one it turned down

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Opening Weekend: ‘Shutter Island,’ ‘Defendor,’ Fish Tank’

Martin Scorsese revels in Gothic horror, while Woody Harrelson plays a superhero as a Canuck loser

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A Quebec Queen Victoria: C.R.A.Z.Y.

What happens when an indépendantiste is asked to direct a story about British royalty?

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Why Roman Polanski belongs in prison

Polanski’s case is not in dispute. Hollywood doesn’t consider itself bound by the same rules as other folk. Common sense disagrees.