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NINA MACLAUGHLIN

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Parlor salon

Spreading the words in Salem
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 16, 2008

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Exte: Hair Extensions

Creepy and bizarro hair-raising horror
The film rises above satire with chilling and deftly shot set pieces of hair strangling, flinging, and burying its victims.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 16, 2008

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My Father My Lord

Hushed, dun-colored, and beautifully shot
Volach overdoes the quoting from the Torah, but the intimacy of each shot and the quiet force from each character elevate the film to the level of parable.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 25, 2008

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Confessions of an editor

DeWitt Henry's candid new collection of essays meditates on manhood
There’s a quiet courage in these essays, and a revelatory sense of the continuing challenge of pressing on.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 20, 2008

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A Jihad for Love

Potent subject matter overshadowed by special effects
Homosexuality is illegal and highly punishable in the Muslim world (being stoned to death is a possibility); the faces of many of Sharma’s subjects are blurred to conceal their identity.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 25, 2008

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Bigger, Stronger, Faster*

Steroids and a culture of competition
The film, both informative and poignant, is peopled with a cross-section of users, experts, politicians, pro athletes, and gym rats with melon-sized biceps.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 04, 2008

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Refusenik

Potent but trudging
As one activist says, “It’s the naïveté of young people that can change history.”
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  May 28, 2008

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Obama bicycle cycle

Mat Honan will start your new online fad
In case you haven’t already heard, Barack Obama is your new bicycle.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 27, 2008

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Renewal

Religious groups and the environment
They avoid religious cheerleading and tree-huggery; instead, their film demonstrates that when it comes to keeping the earth from getting wrecked beyond repair, it isn’t a matter of us versus them.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 20, 2008

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Academy Award Nominated Shorts 2007

Unchallenging and underwhelming
“Madame Tutli-Putli,” about a woman on a nightmarish night train, has the look of an animated Egon Schiele drawing.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 13, 2008

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Doodle bugs

Brushes with greatness
Every teen mag worth its weight in heartthrobs can tell you what your notebook doodlings reveal about your personality.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  January 02, 2008

Note By Note: The Making of Steinway L1037

Loving, but tedious
Tuners with perfect pitch tighten and loosen strings for hours by ear.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  December 26, 2007

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Prison professor

A literary prize that really helps
There are lots of small presses. Dzanc Books, based near Detroit, is one of them, but it’s not like the rest.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  December 05, 2007

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Deep thinking

Peter Thomson’s cleansing journey
Lake Baikal fills a fracture in the surface of Siberia that’s 25 million years old, 395 miles long, and a mile deep.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  November 19, 2007

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Lake of Fire

Seeing choice, in shades of gray
We still have the right to choose, Kaye seems to say, but we should know what that choice looks like.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  October 24, 2007

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King Corn

On a diabetic throne
We spend less money on food than any generation before us, but King Corn asks, at what price?
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  October 17, 2007

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Angels in the Dust

A documentary of differences
Amid it all, the kids are kids: they dance and play and laugh, while not far from their mini-village lie acres and acres of graves.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  October 03, 2007

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Touched by grace

Andre Dubus’s unending gifts
This, around November, when New England’s bones start to show — and I realized my heart was beating faster. The story had quickened my pulse.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  October 01, 2007

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Vanaja

Artful and satisfying, if overlong
The colors — ocher and rose and royal blue — and the cast, unprofessional actors all, heighten the sensuality.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 24, 2007

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Shadow of the House: Photographer Abelardo Morrell

Unfamiliarizing the most familiar
Allie Humenuk’s quiet documentary follows Morrell, who’s a professor at MassArt, over seven years in an examination of his process.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 05, 2007
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