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Tom Tykwer and Lana and Andy Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Law in These Parts.

Among the standouts at this year’s NYFF are Christian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills and Dror Moreh’s The Gatekeepers.

Richard Tuttle’s sculpture seems to proclaim “No spirit but in things.”

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, a drifter meets a rude awakening.

A.M. Homes’s May We Be Forgiven; Sherman Alexie’s Blasphemy.

The documentary, starring the late Andrew Breitbart, is a deranged hodge-podge of bizarre memes, wild dot-connecting and unadulterated fury.

A crude and hackneyed film, Won't Back Down peddles an improbable and deceptive message about schools and poverty.