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vulnerable 54 darkly satirical 54 abjection 54 psychologically astute 54 gorgeously filmed 54 Brian Helgeland script 54 sidesplitting comedy 54 unabashedly sentimental 54 Absurdist 54 blackly humorous 54 Bette Bourne 54 disarmingly funny 54 David Straithairn 54 wonderfully nuanced 54 gripping tale 54 slyly funny 54 repressed sexuality 54 antiheroic 54 psychological underpinnings 53 drunken womanizer 53 Engrossing 53 darkly humourous 53 Director Gregory Hoblit 53 cartoonishness 53 heartbreakingly sad 53 vividly portrays 53 subversively funny 53 portayal 53 unflinchingly honest 53 theatrical artifice 53 Wickedly funny 53 mordant humor 53 Breath Boom 53 Today Birthdays Playwright 53 Darkly comic 53 Bildungsroman 53 bitingly funny 53 hyperrealism 53 rawly 53 Jon Marans 53 Lorenzo Pisoni 53 bleakly funny 53 Anne Rosellini Winter Bone 53 Hazel Motes 53 Lacombe Lucien 53 uber masculine 53 Chandleresque 53 David Harrower 53 Tom Nelis 53 refreshingly unsentimental 53 Gedeck 53 Dael Orlandersmith 53 vividly portrayed 53 vivid depictions 53 Rosmersholm 53 affectionate portrait 53 SubUrbia 53 Unrequited love 53 Roman Polanski Repulsion 52 screwball romance 52 Faustian tale 52 suspenseful thriller 52 blackly funny 52 blackly comic 52 laceratingly 52 Director Debra Granik 52 grippingly 52 Trigorin 52 Stick Fly 52 attraction repulsion 52 SN Behrman 52 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 52 weaves tale 52 tells Anne Strainchamps 52 Bill Pronzini 52 darkly comedic 52 Leonid McGill 52 stark realism 52 soaringly 52 Elizabethan playwright 52 Goldengrove 52 Hugh Whitemore 52 Delia MacDougall 52 wholly believable 52 sardonically funny 52 Jacobean tragedy 52 feminist critique 52 Cinnamon Kiss 52 fictionalization 52 writes Philippa Hawker 52 Shock Corridor 52 unflinching gaze 52 thematic resonance 52 Ved Mehta 52 amour fou 52 evocative prose 52 tautly paced 52 Constance Congdon 52 uncanniness 52 multicharacter 52 Exterminating Angels 52 richly nuanced 52 Darkly funny 52 unflinching candor 52 darkly comic tale 52 expertly weaves 52 cautionary fable 52 Partisan Daughter 52 Brooding 52 absurdist comedy 52 Monsieur Verdoux 51 absurdist humor 51 fading Southern belle 51 writer Christopher Isherwood 51 Hitchcockian suspense 51 psychological acuity 51 unrelievedly 51 ingenuousness 51 serio comic 51 Hemingwayesque 51 existential anguish 51 William Mastrosimone 51 nuanced portrait 51 picaresque novel 51 intertwined fates 51 richly imaginative 51 descriptive prose 51 Rosa Laborde 51 Vivie Warren 51 Drama Mex 51 unabashedly romantic 51 dryly humorous 51 Bigger Than Life 51 Santa Sangre 51 nameless narrator 51 antiheroine 51 wry witty 51 Chay Yew 51 nameless protagonist 51 screenwriter Hanif Kureishi 51 THE NORMAL HEART 51 kitchen sink realism 51 self reflexivity 51 subtextual 51 dottiness 51 Sophoclean 51 moral ambiguities 51 Brontë sisters 51 vividly conveys 51 Chrysanthemum Palace 51 Ma Joad 51 La Moustache 51 convincingly conveys 51 supernatural overtones 51 Storming Heaven 51 mercurial moods 51 Pugilist Specialist 51 Dostoevskian 51 transfixes 51 Laila Robins 51 gorgeously crafted 51 cinema vérité 51 darker impulses 51 Ruined Lynn Nottage 51 closeted homosexuality 51 incisive critique 51 self referentiality 51 Halley Wegryn Gross 51 Wellesian 51 Lisa Loomer 51 Len Jenkin 51 blacklisted screenwriter 51 absorbingly 51 Christopher Guest mockumentaries 51 savage satire 51 Dangerous Liasons 51 Herzogian 51 miserablism 51 limns 51 riotously entertaining 51 Somerset Maugham novel 51 Anaïs Nin 51 Thought provoking 51 Alfredo Narciso 51 spellbinder 51 cinematic adaptations 51 serio comedy 51 preternaturally wise 50 darkly comical 50 Art imitates 50 impeccably researched 50 sublime silliness 50 hokiness 50 comically absurd 50 Machinal 50 Olivier Assayas Carlos 50 fictionalized tale 50 Flannery O'Conner 50 Chaplin Tramp 50 Pirandellian 50 Kubrickian 50 finely nuanced 50 depiction 50 ineffably sad 50 Toby Belch 50 Suspenseful 50 unbearably sad 50 vivid depiction 50 child's eye 50 playwright Lynn Nottage 50 slackerdom 50 immensely watchable 50 Thomas Pynchon Gravity Rainbow 50 inescapability 50 prequel Hannibal Rising 50 Scena Theatre 50 Foreskin Lament 50 evocation 50 Ingmar Bergman Persona 50 film noire 50 Håfström 50 thuddingly obvious 50 wryly humorous 50 Kia Corthron 50 Martin Ritt 50 Mo Hayder 50 poetic imagery 50 Errol Morris documentary 50 elegaic 50 Sandrine Bonnaire 50 caustically funny 50 delightfully irreverent 50 playwright Donald Margulies 50 filmmaker Neil LaBute 50 utterly beguiling 50 Vivre Sa Vie 50 Alex DeLarge 50 Riveting 50 Sangre de Mi Sangre 50 beautifully nuanced 50 Ingrid Jonker 50 redemptive qualities 50 psychosexual drama 50 grotesqueries 50 satiric comedy 50 polymorphously perverse 50 Philip Lopate 50 Homeric epic 50 James Ellroy LA Confidential 50 Jean Claude Brisseau 50 grand guignol 50 carnality 50 Kathryn Meisle 50 Lady Marchmain 50 contempo 50 Kafka Metamorphosis 50 heartwarmer 50 alternately hilarious 50 Stephen Dolginoff 50 Fran Bed 50 chairs Mishel 50 Philip Kan Gotanda 50 downright unlikable 50 chiaroscuro lighting 50 gothic tale 50 Franju 50 moral ambiguity 50 sentimentalizing 50 unknowability 50 Phyllis Dietrichson 50 grisliness 50 Dashiell Hammet 50 Von Trotta 50 Italian neo realist 50 absurdist satire 50 lovelessness 50 darkly funny 50 sly wit 50 Keith Bunin 50 ffff 50 Laclos 50 Spinning Into Butter 50 misanthropy 50 Dashiel Hammett 50 grotesquerie 50 verite style 50 Typecasting 50 Lionel Rogosin 50 Ralph Ziman 50 unspoken truths 50 Victor Slezak 50 Ox Bow Incident 50 harrowingly 50 Tommy O'Haver 50 Hogarthian 50 reformed sinner 50 Huneven 50 dystopian sci fi 50 elegiac tone 50 Matthew Amendt 50 Venice filmfest 50 Superbly acted 50 Jerome Tuccille 50 Ratanaruang 50 Sixkill 50 Adolphe Menjou 49 Dark Elegies 49 Faulknerian 49 diabolism 49 Hannie Rayson 49 Swados 49 Kit Marlowe 49 Niall Buggy 49 grotesqueness 49 utterly captivating 49 Count Orlock 49 Doom Generation 49 Tattooed Girl 49 noir ish 49 Eloquently 49 Gilles Marchand 49 murderousness 49 catharses 49 erotically charged 49 Edith Wharton novel 49 viscerally thrilling 49 Angie Radosh 49 Georgina Spelvin 49 Topdog 49 morbidly fascinating 49 sordidness 49 wreaks vengeance 49 scabrously funny 49 mordantly witty 49 engrossingly 49 weepy melodrama 49 achingly sad 49 FILM REVIEW 49 graphic novel Maus 49 twentysomething angst 49 bracingly 49 Winter Bone Debra Granik 49 achingly funny 49 powerfully conveys 49 Todd Solondz Happiness 49 grindhouse films 49 gorgeous cinematography 49 Alec McCowen 49 deliciously wicked 49 noir thrillers 49 Anita Brookner 49 Boy Interrupted 49 aestheticized 49 Inventing Van Gogh 49 policier 49 Cusk 49 Magical realism 49 Lanky brooding Superman 49 protofeminist 49 Shutter Island Martin Scorsese 49 Playwright Sarah Ruhl 49 Monsieur Hire 49 Edward Dmytryk 49 Vinyan 49 Uproarious 49 homoerotic subtext 49 RABBIT HOLE 49 Shakespearean verse 49 Reckless Moment 49 slapstick farce 49 Braveheart Mel Gibson 49 Anton Walbrook 49 Claude Cahun 49 limn 49 madcap farce 49 urbane wit 49 BEST BIT 49 Dan Istrate 49 Iliad Homer 49 Lyndsey Marshal 49 wickedly witty 49 Catherine Filloux 49 uncynical 49 Flannel Pajamas 49 Brooklyn longshoreman 49 underworlds 49 self mythologizing 49 philosophical musing 49 affectingly 49 cleareyed 49 nonfictional 49 comedy Blithe Spirit 49 ephemerality 49 Lucinda Coxon 49 Jacobean revenge 49 wrenchingly 49 Viagara Falls 49 Hamlet Ophelia 49 stageplay 49 Marv Mickey Rourke 49 poet Charles Bukowski 49 critic Greil Marcus 49 Mesrine Killer Instinct 49 inexhaustibly 49 Angus MacLachlan 49 protag 49 Natsuo Kirino 49 cannibalistic killer 49 Jacobean drama 49 delightfully witty 49 vivid portrayals 49 weaves tapestry 49 suitably creepy 49 Vivre sa vie 49 dystopian science fiction 49 sheer strangeness 49 delightfully demented 49 Joseph Cotten 49 Adrian Searle 49 self referential humor 49 Brenda Wehle 49 Catherine Corsini 49 Movie Synopsis 49 Benito Cereno 49 Pixote 49 comedic undertones 49 portrayal 49 unrepressed 49 Michael Cristofer 49 dystopian vision 49 documentarylike 49 Victor Lodato 49 sensualist 49 deracination 49 Secret Rapture 49 Lockerbie Unfinished Business 49 Horatio Alger tale 49 darkly poetic 49 floridly 49 Dercourt 49 deliriously funny 49 Pietro Aretino 49 unerring ear 49 Interweaving 49 Les Liaisons 49 Suffused 49 ffffo 49 Sophie Treadwell 49 EL Doctorow Ragtime 49 delicately nuanced 49 timeless tale 49 Imaginary Heroes 49 broodingly 49 unashamedly sentimental 49 Frozen Bryony Lavery 49 Innocent Voices 49 Janoviak 49 à clef 49 morality tale 49 moral conundrums 49 exhilaratingly 49 fractured fairy tales 49 Zastrozzi 49 bumbling Barney Fife 49 Emmanuel Carrere 49 verité style 49 deftly weaves 49 Shakespeare MacBeth 49 Cinematically 49 romanticises 49 Nina Sayers Natalie Portman 49 strangely alluring 49 Masoch 49 IMDb listing 49 Kaspar Hauser 49 Terrence Dashon Howard 49 eponymous protagonist 48 Shelley Duvall 48 hypermasculine 48 Prince Myshkin 48 juicily 48 freakiness 48 austerely beautiful 48 Childlike 48 Tarnation Jonathan Caouette 48 scenarists 48 werewolf mythology 48 Fanny Kemble 48 Javier Marías 48 Documentarian 48 Oedipus myth 48 ripping yarn 48 Tickling Leo 48 jokiness 48 Bill Maher Religulous 48 satirical comedy 48 Sorry Haters 48 verite 48 razor tongued 48 Swiftian satire 48 espionage thrillers 48 escapist fantasies 48 psychological thrillers 48 thrillers comedies 48 Gaitskill 48 surrealist imagery 48 critic Kenneth Tynan 48 verité 48 Mueller Stahl 48 Bashir Lazhar 48 Schenkkan 48 absurdist playwright 48 Chang rae Lee 48 Lonely Place 48 transfigures 48 novelist memoirist 48 Clean Shaven 48 Nabokov Lolita 48 immensely readable 48 Hairy Ape 48 Self Medicated 48 Rechy 48 Anouilh 48 Terrence Malick Badlands 48 auteurism 48 voyeuristic fascination 48 deftly juggles 48 Hrebejk 48 criminally underseen 48 phantasy 48 vitalizes 48 Ninagawa 48 slyly humorous 48 Pinter Betrayal 48 immensely likable 48 Léaud 48 lightly fictionalized 48 Lina Leandersson 48 Moira Buffini 48 wickedly entertaining 48 Lidless 48 Anne Parillaud 48 Brooksian 48 Fateless 48 longform improv 48 Dael Orlandersmith Yellowman 48 Dostoevski 48 subUrbia 48 Barbara Covett 48 biodrama 48 Shekhar Kapur Elizabeth 48 Therese Raquin 48 Yanna McIntosh 48 Doctor Strangelove 48 Louvish 48 comeuppances 48 Alla Nazimova 48 deadpan wit 48 boundlessness 48 sentimentalize 48 richly atmospheric 48 kinkiness 48 Parisian courtesan 48 Géricault 48 interwoven storylines 48 AE Houseman 48 Shalom Auslander 48 Grande dame 48 Roland Joffé 48 deftly interweaves 48 staginess 48 intricately plotted 48 Shakespearean proportions 48 verbally dexterous 48 novelized 48 doubleness 48 Ralph Eugene Meatyard 48 psychodramas 48 Martin Scorsese Mean Streets 48 Etzioni Halevy 48 childlike simplicity 48 Alfred Kazin 48 poetic musings 48 Conradian 48 gothic novels 48 BOOK REVIEW 48 interiority 48 Alberto Lattuada 48 Humor Abuse 48 nostril flaring 48 Rebecca Gilman 48 Le Samourai 48 cinematic oeuvre 48 invigoratingly 48 avant garde filmmaker 48 Nicholas Nickelby 48 Alexander Ostrovsky 48 Hitchcockian thriller 48 Polly Stenham 48 Unsentimental 48 delightfully wicked 48 seriocomedy 48 salesman Willy Loman 48 Busby Berkeley musicals 48 solipsist 48 Rosemary Dunsmore 48 veers perilously close 48 unconventionality 48 Dying Gaul 48 autobiographer 48 Catherine Trieschmann 48 Dolores Claiborne 48 hardboiled detective 48 Rafael Yglesias 48 Lucy Grealy 48 starring Debra Winger 48 Pola Negri 48 orphan Oliver Twist 48 Darkly 48 Annalee Jefferies 48 Casting Shadows 48 Albee Who Afraid 48 Choderlos de Laclos 48 Diane Wiest 48 bleakly humorous 48 STAGE REVIEW 48 hyper realist 48 picaresque tale 48 childlike whimsy 48 contemporary resonances 48 Miranda Priestley 48 Undress Me 48 Jean Claude Carrière 48 Bhaneja 48 pitiless 48 maudlin sentimentality 48 Jason Butler Harner 48 Capraesque 48 quasi operatic 48 Adrienne Rich 48 absurdism 48 darkly ironic 48 self harmer 48 Goodbye Solo 48 homicidal impulses 48 sexually rapacious 48 Roman Polanski Chinatown 48 Tim Ocel 48 Female Trouble 48 Ishiguro novel 48 Johnny Stompanato 48 jarring juxtapositions 48 deftly blends 48 Captain Vere 48 Irréversible 48 Haden Church 48 novelist Dennis Lehane 48 Brian DePalma Redacted 48 Veloudos 48 romantic subplots 48 McReele 48 creepfest 48 Frederico Garcia Lorca 48 unlikable character 48 Milo Addica 48 Ira Levin Deathtrap 48 Am Sex Addict 48 Pulitzer Prizewinning 48 dew breaker 48 Otherwise Engaged 48 Au Hasard Balthazar 48 Bubba Ho tep 48 Haim Tabakman 48 costumed vigilante 48 gratuitously violent 48 Resolutely 48 neo noir 48 existential musings 48 Dussollier 48 Chaim Potok novel 48 tragi comedy 48 noir genre 48 Mamet Oleanna 48 unself consciously 48 philosophical rumination 48 terrifically funny 48 lyrical sensibility 48 malignant narcissism 48 wonderfully droll 48 sluttish 48 Yemaya Belly 48 unsentimental 48 Jeff Steitzer 48 Separate Lies 48 Loncraine 48 Loren D. Estleman 48 performative aspect 47 screenwriter Horton Foote 47 UA Fanthorpe 47 epical 47 Widow Story 47 boyishly charming 47 Taxi Driver Travis Bickle 47 archetypally 47 playwright Lorraine Hansberry 47 Alan Ayckbourn trilogy 47 thriller Deathtrap 47 Broken Blossoms 47 '#th Hour 47 Expressionistic 47 adventuress 47 dramatisations 47 James Urbaniak 47 gorehound 47 Berni Wrightson 47 childhood traumas 47 evocative imagery 47 finely wrought 47 filmmaker Terrence Malick 47 autobiographically 47 Guediguian 47 Terence McNally 47 idealisation 47 vividly evokes 47 Barbara Baekeland 47 Gregg Araki Mysterious Skin 47 Nightmare Alley 47 stylizes 47 Unquiet 47 playwright Horton Foote 47 Stirling Silliphant 47 paints portrait 47 Emily Brontë 47 Zach Grenier 47 gritty realism 47 horror subgenre 47 sendup 47 Mrs. Alving 47 skilfully weaves 47 Daryl Wein 47 Gustav von Aschenbach 47 Italian giallo 47 morally ambiguous 47 vigilante superhero 47 filmmaker Errol Morris 47 offhandedness 47 poetic sensibility 47 rakish charm 47 Amelia Bullmore 47 One Flea Spare 47 suspenser 47 Greek tragedians 47 Kay Redfield Jamison 47 Shavian 47 Dermot Crowley 47 tragedians 47 diaristic 47 poetic lyricism 47 Stuhlbarg 47 Elisabeth Waterston 47 Michael Herr Dispatches 47 Bryony Lavery Frozen 47 minutely observed 47 poetic prose 47 Nihilism 47 Deavere Smith 47 Cotard 47 Maisie Dobbs 47 Keith Reddin 47 starring Bette Davis 47 Shelley Frankenstein 47 cartoonist Jules Feiffer 47 playwright screenwriter 47 Louis Jourdan 47 searingly 47 photographer Diane Arbus 47 Annie Dillard 47 Martin Csokas 47 vivid evocation 47 Ato Essandoh 47 Intimations 47 THE CONSPIRATOR 47 André Téchiné 47 vampire lore 47 grrrl power 47 poignantly captures 47 semiautobiographical 47 Brutally honest 47 Dashwood sisters 47 Infernal Comedy 47 wickedly humorous 47 Moliere comedy 47 pantomimic 47 nonfiction bestseller 47 mythologizes 47 innkeeper sheltering refugees 47 inextricable link 47 slyer 47 Shakespeare Titus Andronicus 47 Penny Woolcock 47 Anouk Aimée 47 endlessly watchable 47 guileless charm 47 Carlo Gesualdo 47 Felliniesque 47 Carmen Ejogo 47 Karin Coonrod 47 eroticised 47 Red Barked Tree 47 knowingness 47 Night Watcher 47 Cave Dwellers 47 baroquely 47 fiercely possessive 47 Romulus Linney 47 darkly hilarious 47 Moonlight Mile 47 seriocomic 47 maudlin melodrama 47 Amy Thone 47 Lymelife 47 Edet Belzberg 47 Ammaniti 47 Vindice 47 repetition compulsion 47 unheroic 47 Bertie Carvel 47 Shakespearean tragedies 47 lyrical evocation 47 Shotgun Stories 47 finely shaded 47 timeless fable 47 Stealing Sinatra 47 Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman 47 Tragical History 47 loopily 47 vérité style 47 Layon Gray 47 noir 47 Grimms fairy tale 47 Kepesh 47 Zinnemann 47 Claudia Shear 47 sombre tones 47 lovable scamp 47 humorlessness 47 Luc Sante 47 After.Life 47 materialism consumerism 47 sardonic humor 47 Jodhi May 47 engrossing 47 Doris Wishman 47 unaffecting 47 unsparingly 47 Daniel Deronda 47 CAPOTE 47 drollness 47 Blade Itself 47 paints vivid 47 subtly shaded 47 familial strife 47 loosely autobiographical 47 Disco Pigs 47 Sinéad Cusack 47 Eleanor Reissa 47 Cesar Charlone 47 ravishment 47 hyperrealist 47 directorial flourishes 47 nature morte 47 lyrical prose 47 Rick Foucheux 47 Tyrant Novel 47 Threepenny 47 Ryan Artzberger 47 Dear Frankie 47 Max Beerbohm 47 cunning manipulative 47 wonderfully readable 47 acidly funny 47 contemporary playwrights 47 Bright Sided 47 dreamlike sequences 47 Korder 47 Eating Raoul 47 Borzage 47 Anatole Litvak 47 Earnest Hemingway 47 tale 47 Amar Kaul 47 comedic flair 47 Donnersmarck 47 sketch comedy revue 47 Ned Kynaston 47 nongraphic 47 quasi incestuous 47 unsentimentally 47 Oedipus Complex 47 Child Jack Reacher 47 Twilight Zone ish 47 Mrs Dalloway 47 sly satire 47 Premer Golpo 47 Bertolt 47 engrosses 47 allegorically 47 gruesomeness 47 humanises 47 Kathleen McNenny 47 Blind Shaft 47 Mark Setlock 47 Deadwood HBO 47 Appignanesi 47 subtly nuanced 47 macabre fascination 47 Hiding Divya 47 Theodore Roszak 47 David Bennent 47 simplicities 47 existential dread 47 counterpointing 47 Rocco Sisto 47 playright 47 Alafair Burke 47 Enthralling 47 raffish charm 47 Godard Breathless 47 Almereyda 47 romanticizes 47 searingly honest 47 Reality intrudes 47 charmingly offbeat 47 Unknown Terrorist 47 exploitation flicks 47 allegory 47 Ford Madox Ford 47 James Lecesne 47 stylizations 47 Twelfth Night Shakespeare 47 Callas Forever 47 Rita Tushingham 47 implacability 47 homo eroticism 47 matricide 47 portrayals Brando 47 Last Sin Eater 47 enchanting tale 47 Doris Dörrie 47 Philip Madoc 47 YA fiction 47 Samantha Soule