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THE POLAR EXPRESS

This 2004 movie has problems, but it’s still the most interesting entry in director Robert Zemeckis’ post-2000 filmography

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INTERROGATION

This politically minded 1982 film has assumed legendary status in its native Poland, but for American viewers its allure is much simpler: it fits quite snugly into the Women in Prison subgenre

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GO AND GET IT

No, it wasn’t the “first” man-in-a-monkey suit film, but this 1920 programmer was quite the oddity

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COYOTE

COYOTE may be an extended hallucination or an eccentric first-person crime saga; either way, it’s a deeply chilly and upsetting book

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SICK

A promising but not entirely successful horror novel that debuted at the wrong time

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