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Is There Anything Left To Say About 'Saturday Night Live'?

10:33am April 16, 2015

by Linda Holmes

The Tribeca Film Festival opened Wednesday with a documentary that faces a massive challenge: Trying to find a new angle on one of the most thoroughly documented institutions we have.

In Ex Machina, the world's first artificial intelligence, played by Alicia Vikander, possesses more emotional intelligence than originally intended.

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More Fear Of Human Intelligence Than Artificial Intelligence In 'Ex Machina'

7:45pm April 14, 2015

by NPR Staff

"The anxiety in this film is much more directed at the humans," director Alex Garland tells NPR's Audie Cornish. "It was more in defense of artificial intelligence."

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Driver is best known for his role as Hannah's boyfriend on the HBO series Girls.

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Former Marine Adam Driver On What Acting And The Military Have In Common

3:35pm April 13, 2015

"You have a group of people trying to accomplish a mission that's greater than themselves," the actor says. "It's not about one person." Driver stars in the new film comedy While We're Young.

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In 'Clouds Of Sils Maria,' An Actress Faces Past, Present And Future In An Instant

3:00pm April 13, 2015

by David Edelstein

Juliette Binoche plays an aging movie star who's about to appear in a play opposite an infamous young Hollywood actress. It's a hall of mirrors that sounds convoluted in the telling, but plays easily.

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Know That THX 'Sound' Before Movies? That's Actually 20,000 Lines Of Code

9:04pm April 11, 2015

by Arun Rath

Deep Note, THX's distinctive audio logo often heard before movies, is getting an upgrade. The sound's creator, James A. Moorer, first composed it in code in 1982.

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Super Troopers director and actor Jay Chandrasekhar (left), along with other castmates from the cult comedy film, solicit investment for a sequel in a screengrab from their IndieGogo campaign.

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For Fans Of 'Super Troopers,' Meow They're Getting A Sequel

2:38pm April 11, 2015

by NPR Staff

Super Troopers is one of the silliest movies in the pantheon of cult comedies and the film's creators have raised more than $3.5 million for a sequel through crowdfunding.

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Jake and Ella meet cute on the bumper cars in Cheatin', but their perfect romance goes wrong after another woman starts scheming to drive them apart.

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Inside The Wild (And Hand-Drawn) World Of Bill Plympton

10:54am April 11, 2015

by Jon Kalish

Indie animation king Bill Plympton's latest feature, Cheatin', tells the loopy love story of Jake and Ella, and how their perfect romance fractured. Reporter Jon Kalish visited Plympton in his studio.

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Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche in Olivier Assayas' Clouds Of Sils Maria.

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Women Ascend With Uncertainty In 'Clouds Of Sils Maria'

4:03pm April 10, 2015

by Tomas Hachard

The drama from director Olivier Assayas is the rare work that can hold opposite ideas in tension, refuse to fully resolve them, and be entirely satisfying nonetheless, says Tomas Hachard.

Sonoya Mizuno and Alicia Vikander in Ex-Machina.

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Listening To The Ho-Hum Of The Machine

5:41pm April 09, 2015

by Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins says the new artificial intelligence film Ex Machina is diverting, but ultimately comes to a predictable and unsatisfying conclusion.

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Bloody Yet Unsatisfying, 'Kill Me Three Times' Disappoints But Once

5:03pm April 09, 2015

by Andrew Lapin

Andrew Lapin says the bloody Australian black comedy wants to be a genre caper, but can't quite hit the right notes.