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Topic: Beasts of the Southern Wild

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South's whites won't surrender

Curtis White

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Echo Friendly (Yebo Music/Mark Peckmezian/Salon)

David Daley
Quvenzhané Wallis in "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Philip Seymour Hoffman in "A Most Wanted Man"

Movies: Not dead after all!

Andrew O'Hehir
Seth MacFarlane during the Oscars on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Oscar's very weird night

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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The case against "Argo"

Andrew O'Hehir
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Prachi Gupta
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Oscars fear "Zero Dark Thirty"

Andrew O'Hehir
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Daniel D'Addario

Oscar's dark horses

Daniel D'Addario
Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry in "Beasts of the Southern Wild."

"Beasts" wasn't shafted by SAG

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Kelly Candaele - LA Review of Books