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FILMS TO SEE	FILMS TO SKIP
Red Ciff	Twilight: New Moon
Fantastic Mr. Fox	The Informant!
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus	Me and Orson Welles
Everybody's Fine	This is It
Afterschool	The Men Who Stare at Goats
Antichrist	Law Abiding Citizen
The Horse Boy	Ong Bak 2
Black Dynamite	Life During Wartime
The House of the Devil	The Box
Mary and Max	Disney's A Christmas Carol
The Maid	Zombieland
As Seen Through These Eyes	2012
Inglourious Basterds	Private Lives of Pippa Lee
The Messenger	The Stepfather
Red Cliff	Uncertainty
Untitled	Coco Before Chanel
The September Issue	The Fourth Kind
An Education	Bad Lieutenant: New Orleans
The Age of Stupid	Me and Orson Welles
Rembrandt's J'Accuse	The Road
Up in the Air	A Serious Man

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