Do you remember how you first felt upon leaving the original The Matrix, that shell-shocked sense of having been given a heady glimpse into another fully formed world, that feeling of suddenly possessing dangerous and unearthly knowledge, that giddy realization that you’d just witnessed something intellectually breathtaking and truly original? Prepare for those sensations all [...]

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Whip It, the directorial debut of actress Drew Barrymore, is a fun, breezy, grrrrrrl empowerment movie with enormous heart and crowd-pleasing muscle. Surprisingly moving and pervasively funny, this celebration of female camaraderie is, to borrow a word, [...]

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