over the river and through the woods

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Whiplash

A film about the cruelty and transcendence of jazz mastery

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Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness

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All Quiet on the Western Front

The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud

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Spec Ops: The Line

A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players