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Kate Nash 'Best' at expressing range of enigmatic emotions
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Kate Nash 'Best' at expressing range of enigmatic emotions

Kate Nash's playfulness on her debut album, Made of Bricks, won her a BRIT award in 2008. Her lighthearted malice and overall quirkiness—not quite Lily Allen's smug vindictiveness, not quite the innocently traumatized personas of Regina Spektor—can be captivating. This coyness, matched with a drastically dynamic array of songs, is what makes My Best Friend is You memorable.

Scorsese stumbles on slow-moving 'Shutter'
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Scorsese stumbles on slow-moving 'Shutter'

Director Martin Scorsese attracts audiences with a creepily promising premise in his long-awaited new release, ""Shutter Island."" The attraction to solving the film's mystery lasts well into its second half, but the resolution is annoyingly groan-producing and contrived.

A rewarding, unconventional 'Education'
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A rewarding, unconventional 'Education'

Clever, realistic and well developed, ""An Education"" investigates how to acquire diverse types of knowledge, and examines how much one person can sacrifice in pursuit of it.In 1961 London, 16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan), is a brilliant yet bored student preparing to apply to Oxford. A beautiful girl with lofty standards, she has high school suitors who could never hope to measure up to her abilities (one helplessly bumbles over a simple French phrase she coyly mentions). Enter David (Peter Sarsgaard), a cultured but uneducated man twice her age, who offers her a ride home one day. A relationship blossoms between them as David opens up a new world to Jenny, taking her to chamber concerts, jazz clubs and art galleries.

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