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Scenic Routes Alec Baldwin declares himself God in the big scene from Malice
November 4, 2013 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes From the right vantage point, even harmless trick-or-treaters look nightmarish
October 21, 2013 | 12:00am -
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Scenic Routes Mistakes happen. So why don’t more movies leave them in?
October 7, 2013 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes Purists be damned, Grease benefits from tossing out the show’s songbook
September 23, 2013 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes David Mamet’s State And Main engineers a perfect punchline
September 9, 2013 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes A character’s obsessive cataloging in Diner and the psychology behind it
August 26, 2013 | 12:00am -
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Scenic Routes A brief scene in Kim Ki-duk’s Time demonstrates his capability to dazzle
August 12, 2013 | 12:02am -
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Scenic Routes White Heat has an all-time great ending, even if it seems to come out of nowhere
July 29, 2013 | 12:00am -
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Scenic Routes Sling Blade begins with a great monologue—but not from the character you’d expect
July 15, 2013 | 12:00am -
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Scenic Routes Old cinema can still feel new, as a key scene from The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari demonstrates
July 1, 2013 | 12:00am -
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Scenic Routes In Heat, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro face off—though not in the way audiences expected
June 17, 2013 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes A simple smile provokes major heebie-jeebies in Deathdream
June 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
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Scenic Routes A quiet scene from The Matrix demonstrates how to make exposition compelling
May 20, 2013 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes Shelley Duvall does the talking, but Sissy Spacek may be the real protagonist of Altman’s 3 Women
May 6, 2013 | 12:00pm -
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Scenic Routes The big numbers are the lowlight of Dancer In The Dark
April 22, 2013 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes The cats, not the cast, draw viewers’ eyes in Jean Vigo’s classic L’Atalante
April 8, 2013 | 12:00am -
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Scenic Routes What Quiz Show proves about film directing and Argo’s Best Director snub
March 25, 2013 | 12:00pm -
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Scenic Routes The mastery of Brick’s opening (annotated by writer-director Rian Johnson)
March 11, 2013 | 12:00am -
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Scenic Routes The audacious Odd Man Out turns Britain’s biggest star into furniture in his own film
February 18, 2013 | 12:00pm -
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Scenic Routes Stop Making Sense’s opening number establishes it as a concert film like no other
February 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
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Scenic Routes 1985’s Tampopo kicked off the era of death threats for loud moviegoers
January 21, 2013 | 12:00pm -
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Scenic Routes A Moonrise Kingdom montage shows the art of compression isn’t dead
January 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -
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Scenic Routes Two versions of Bad Santa’s opening scene create different expectations
December 17, 2012 | 12:00pm -
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Scenic Routes A Drugstore Cowboy scene features drug logic at its most inventively deranged
December 3, 2012 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes Avanti! illustrates how sometimes falling for a movie is like falling in love
November 19, 2012 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes Little Shop Of Horrors demonstrates the fine art of setting the scene
October 29, 2012 | 11:30am -
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Scenic Routes A seemingly superfluous scene says a lot about Margaret’s meaningful messiness
September 24, 2012 | 12:00pm -
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Scenic Routes In The Court Jester, Danny Kaye’s life depends on getting the words right
September 10, 2012 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes How The War Of The Roses highlights Danny DeVito’s brief directorial genius
August 20, 2012 | 11:00am -
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Scenic Routes The French drama La Haine makes unusually good use of a restroom
August 6, 2012 | 1:00pm -