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  Super Troopers 2

  Alan Scherstuhl | April 20 at 12 a.m.

  If you ever need to sober up quick, come down hard, flush out your system, convince the cops or your boss or the feds that you've not indulged in marijuana, might I recommend taping your eyes wide open and taking in Super Troopers 2? The...

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  The Raven (Le Corbeau)

  Alan Scherstuhl | April 20 at 12 a.m.

  Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau, a grittily suspenseful noir de force from 1943, vigorously dramatizes a real scandal -- in 1917, a woman in central France harried her town with anonymous poison-pen letters -- and ultimately...

• Wanderland

  Tatiana Craine | April 20 at 12 a.m.

  For want of a phone charger! In writer-director Josh Klausner's peculiar indie musical, a twenty-something dude wanders the Hamptons in borrowed board shorts and a sequined sash, spurred by bad luck and a failing iPhone battery. Disillusioned...

• Quai des Orfevres

  Alan Scherstuhl | April 20 at 12 a.m.

  An urbane police procedural, a cracking whodunnit, a Golddiggers sex comedy and a stealth backstage musical, Henri-Georges Clouzot's sprightly entertainment Quai des Orfevres (1947) concerns -- eventually -- the murder of a film...

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  Kodachrome

  Kristen Yoonsoo Kim | April 20 at 12 a.m.

  Netflix's Kodachrome is good fall-asleep-with-the-TV-on fare, and I mean you should snooze out immediately unless you want to be subjected to a criminally mediocre family drama. It's about the last-minute reconciliation involving a dying...

• Godard Mon Amour

  Serena Donadoni | April 20 at 12 a.m.

  Michel Hazanavicius' exploration of Jean-Luc Godard's immersion in radical politics is constructed as a giddy homage to Godardian affectation. That's no surprise: He'd recreated candy-colored spy spoofs in two OSS 117 films, and won an Oscar for...

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  44 Pages

  Chris Packham | April 20 at 12 a.m.

  Most of 44 Pages, director Tony Shaff's documentary about the family-owned magazine Highlights for Children, takes place in the magazine's stately editorial offices in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The film surfaces all of the magazine's...

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  Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free

  Abbey Bender | April 20 at 12 a.m.

  Lou Andreas-Salome, The Audacity to Be Free is an awkward mouthful of a title, but this biographical study of a trailblazing 19th century intellectual offers a worthwhile history lesson. The first female psychoanalyst, Lou Andreas-Salome...

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  Little Pink House

  Tatiana Craine | April 20 at 12 a.m.

  Courtney Balaker's Little Pink House dramatizes a true story of working-class America under attack: Big money, big pharma and big government want to huff and puff and blow down working-class houses in pursuit of money. After leaving a...