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Entries by Jonathan Kim from 11/2011

ReThink Review: Margin Call -- 'Twas the Night Before the Meltdown...

| Posted 11.01.2011
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The film Margin Call takes us inside a lightly fictionalized stand-in for Lehman Brothers called HMS, where a young risk analyst discovers the math that proves HMS' imminent demise.

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ReThink Review: A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas -- Asian Americans, in 3D!

| Posted 11.04.2011
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A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas is a return to form, with the plot's clear and single-minded focus echoing the first film's mission for munchies.

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ReThink Review: Arthur Christmas -- A Repellant Christmas Wish

| Posted 11.23.2011
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Pro-materialist junk like Arthur Christmas is evidence that something like A Charlie Brown Christmas would never be made today.

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