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Featured Review

Too Short on Humor

Ricky Gervais's new series, Life's Too Short, doesn't so much push boundaries as it lazily forages around their edges. by Phillip Maciak

Film

Ghost Rider 2

Anyone else in the title role would simply be boring, even unfortunate, but Nicolas Cage makes the stray scene work in spite of itself.
by Michael Nordine

• This Means War  by R. Kurt Osenlund

• Love  by Diego Costa

• The Secret World of Arrietty  by Jesse Cataldo

• On the Ice  by Kenji Fujishima

Music

Grimes
Visions

The album is a portrait of a songwriter indulging her mercurial tastes for her own satisfaction.
by Kevin Liedel

• Elizaveta: Beatrix Runs  by Jonathan Keefe

• Islands: A Sleep & a Forgetting  by Jesse Cataldo

• Tennis: Young & Old  by Kevin Liedel

• Goldfrapp: The Singles  by Matthew Cole

TV

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  Eastbound & Down

    by Mike LeChevallier

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  Downton Abbey

    by Phillip Maciak

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  The River

    by Chris Heller

DVD

Essential Killing

A fatalistic fable eschewing the political in favor of the existential, now available in a fittingly barebones DVD package.
by Budd Wilkins

• Lady and the Tramp  by Chris Cabin

• Take Shelter  by Budd Wilkins

• Rock-a-Bye Baby  by Jaime N. Christley

• The Geisha Boy  by Bill Weber

Games

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  Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

    by Aaron Riccio

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  Gotham City Impostors

    by Kyle Lemmon

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  SoulCalibur V

    by Kyle Lemmon

Awards

Oscar Predictions

Need help for your Oscar pool? Our gurus of gold predict all the Oscar winners, one category a day until the big day.
by Staff

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