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The landmines of adolescence — young love, self-discovery, irrational envy — are perplexingly difficult to navigate and all too easy to muck up in trite stereotyping and theatricality. Young Brazilian filmmaker Daniel Ribeiro is fully cognizant of the travails of teenhood, and though he sticks to the multitude of standard
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Jessie Ware is an anomaly of a pop star. Years older than fellow British soul revivalists and pals Sam Smith and Adele, Ware and her brand of soft, understated R&B is reminiscent of early Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston — golden icons whose hits were executed with equal doses of
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For a musical icon as consistently deified in the classic-rock canon as Jimi Hendrix, it would be far too reductive to shoehorn him into the overripe “instant rock star” tropes that have riddled the vast majority of pop-culture films. Much like the Hendrix depicted by Andre Benjamin — Outkast’s Andre
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