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Cannes Film Festival 2012: Moonrise Kingdom
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Links for the Day: Moonrise Kingdom Reactions, Will Smith Applauds Obama, Nick Stahl Missing, Internet Doomsday Explained, & More
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Migrating Forms 2012: Abendland
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Links for the Day: Salman Rushdie on Censorship, Joan Rivers Hates Tom Cruise, 10 Most Outrageous Howard Stern Moments, & More
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Desperate Endings

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Featured Review

In The Dictator, no real-life, innocent bystanders are accosted, and that may just be the most significant flaw of Sacha Baron Cohen's latest, an uncharacteristically arid and unfunny potboiler. by R. Kurt Osenlund

Film

The Color Wheel

Much like the work of generational cohort Michael Robinson, Alex Ross Perry's films are steeped in a viscous cultural past.
by Joseph Jon Lanthier

Music

Best Coast
The Only Place

The band sounds like they're struggling to come up with a new template, a feeling that leaves The Only Place sounding shiftless and adrift.
by Jesse Cataldo