Michael Fassbender in "Shame"
+Critic Matthew D'Abate calls Michael Fassbender's performance "raw and emotive" in a review of Director Steve McQueen's second feature, the unapologetically NC-17, "Shame."
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Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen in "A Dangerous Method"
+Critic Matthew D'Abate writes, "any audience member attracted to the labyrinthine chasms of the unconscious will find this wordy feature a feast to all of the senses, even ones they repress inside."
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Kirsten Dunst as Justine in Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia"
+"Melancholia" is one of Von Trier's most mature and tempered films, astoundingly written, and a departure from his last creation about a phantasmagoric battle between the sexes, the hellish "Antichrist." By Matthew D'Abate.

Arthouse Cinema: Martha Marcy May Marlene
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YBNY's Arthouse Cinema: The Future
A reading of "Harvitz, As to War," the debut novel from Brooklyn based writer Ben Nadler, by YBNY critic Peter Milne Greiner.
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