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  Do-Over Cinema: Fandango Celebrates A Series Of Foolish Acts

  September 21 at 5 a.m.

  When Fandango arrived in theaters in 1985, it made less of a splash than a half-empty bottle of champagne hurled into the Rio Grande (spoiler). Even so, it was hailed as a "notable debut" for director Kevin Reynolds, and no less an authority than Quentin Tarantino called it "one of...

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  Fahrenheit 11/9 Aims for the Easy Target, Not the Urgent One

  September 20 at 6 a.m.

  But 11/9 plays not like a much-needed blast of truth but like an all-purpose Michael Moore sequel, a self-congratulatory follow-up to several of his films, with Parkland material in the Bowling for Columbine vein, references to Sicko and even excerpts from 1989’s Roger & Me

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  In The Wife, Glenn Close Has Had It Up to Here Standing in the Shadow of Jonathan Pryce

  September 14 at 6 a.m.

  This is a portrait of a decades-long partnership coming to a head but also of the American literary community reckoning with what so many know to be true: Women are still not seen as “serious” writers or contenders for major prizes

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  Pick of the Litter Is a Good Dog Doc, Yes It Is, Yes It Is

  September 13 at 6 a.m.

  The pups, named Primrose and Poppet and Phil and Potomac and Patriot, get dispatched from the organization Guide Dogs for the Blind to the homes of families dedicated to raising them for the first half of their training

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  The Gloriously Lurid Mandy Knows Just What to Do With Nicolas Cage

  September 12 at 6 a.m.

  Cosmatos delivers (as fans say) on the blood and guts, on cathartic slaughter, on the disreputable pleasure of watching a bereaved hero regard a new weapon and envision nasty uses for it

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  White Boy Rick’s Heart Is in Family, Not the Crack Game

  September 11 at 6 a.m.

  White Boy Rick has reams of story to tear through, but at heart it’s a family drama, one more concerned with the Wershes than with crack, the feds or Detroit itself