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Alan A. Stone

Alan A. Stone, Touroff–Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at Harvard Law School, is author of Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life.

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Arts in Society

The Passions

Tilda Swinton, icon of indy cinema, is masterful in A Bigger Splash.

Alan A. Stone

Arts in Society

Pilgrim’s Progress

Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is lost in its own symbolism.

Alan A. Stone

Arts in Society

A Better Self

In Paolo Sorrentino's Youth, the crossroads of despair and integrity.

Alan A. Stone

Arts in Society

Blooming, Buzzing Experience

The Wonders subverts the typical female coming-of-age story.

Alan A. Stone

Arts in Society

An Honest Woman

Isabel Coixet's Learning to Drive

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Arts in Society

Park that Lark

Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline

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Arts in Society

Can She Act?

Olivier Assayas's Clouds of Sils Maria

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Film, Arts & Culture

Human Frailties

Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu

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Arts in Society

The Ugly Truth

Even if the facts are wrong, the feelings in Selma are right.

Alan A. Stone

Film, Arts & Culture

Integrity and Despair

Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman.

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Film

The Natural

Richard Linklater's Boyhood

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Film, Arts & Culture

Submitting to Truth

Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida

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