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My favorite ads of all time were just great short films that had a product logo at the end. You could take the product logo off and they would still be entertaining to watch.

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Spacey just delivered a Ferris-Bueller-direct-to-the-camera-confessional IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS EULOGY. IS THERE NOTHING THIS MAN CAN’T DO?!

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He’s directed Out of Sight, The Limey, Erin Brockovich, Bubble, Full Frontal, Haywire, Solaris, King of the Hill, Contagion, Magic Mike, The Girlfriend Experience, The Informant!, a two-part movie about Che Guevara and three Ocean’s movies.

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It’s smooth and nice-looking and in black and white.

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Spacey is a treasure. We’re actually all privileged to see him acting in this.

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These filmmakers, who come from all around the world, have all made a film within the last decade. It’s not an exhaustive list, nor a definitive list — surely some important names were left out, to make room for the lesser-known. Nonetheless, they all are worth watching.

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I happened upon Requiem for a Dream at the local video store, and I’m pretty sure I was filled with tears by the end. It was so damn sad the way heroin fucked up all the characters lives, and the editing seemed so awesome. The score by the Kronos Quartet really tugged my heart strings. But now, looking back, what an overwrought, over-indulgent, over-stylized piece of shit that movie is.

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Alien 3 is a movie that is actively trying to break your heart. The director wrings pathos from the oddest of images: a shot of a dog’s eyes; the image of water running over a knife…