NYT Critics' Picks

[lsanderson]

A Getaway Unravels the Ties That Bind
Paris Can’t Heal the Old Hurts in ‘Le Week-End’
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Oil Money, and Where It Flows
‘Big Men’ Looks at Ghanaian Oil Discovery
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Murder, Mentoring and Masochism in Japan
Sion Sono’s ‘Guilty of Romance,’ a Study in Degradation
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In Japan, Two Teenagers Bond in a Chaotic, Violent World
‘Himizu,’ by Sion Sono, Offers a Dystopian Vision
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