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• MINERS’ HYMNS, THE
  When it comes to atmospheric cinema such as this, I prefer put my stomach in the foreground and my brain in the background.[...]
• INNKEEPERS, THE
  Ti West’s recent films are in many ways intellectual filmmaking exercises, but his command of the craft and childlike enthusiasm for the visceral thrills inherent in his genre of choice help them to succeed as popcorn entertainment.[...]
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  Pick of the Week Project Nim (Lionsgate) — To its tremendous credit, Project Nim does not presume to make a political case for anything more than the experience and feelings of its animal subject; there may be no more potent form of cinematic advocacy than bringing into full view the emotional life of a subject [...][...]