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I love Applause:

The slippery soul of an actor is put under a microscope in Applause, a small, intense Danish drama about an acclaimed stage actor working to rebuild her life after a messy divorce and in the midst of on-again/off-again alcoholism. Her nights are spent onstage starring in a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as the delusional and unabashedly drunken Martha. From this funhouse-mirror setup, director Martin Pieter Zandvliet builds a revelatory Portrait of the Artist as a Near-Middle-Aged Woman. He wrote the role for Paprika Steen, the revered Dogme 95 actor; her real-life performance as Martha in a Copenhagen production of Woolf is interspersed throughout the film. In another filmmaker's hands, the struggling-alcoholic-actor-cast-as-an-unrepentant-alcoholic-character arrangement could result in broad theatrics, but both director and star take care to keep Applause small and true to life...

Paul Constant loves The Cabin in the Woods:

A friend who saw The Cabin in the Woods said it more succinctly than I ever could: "I think it's my favorite episode of Angel!" (For those who have lives: Angel is the spin-off of nerd god writer/director Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show.) Cabin co-writer and director Drew Goddard worked with Whedon on Angel, a series that often toyed with fantasy and horror conventions, and so there's a good chance that Cabin began as an Angel episode pitch that was deemed too good to waste on network television. It is a great idea. A bunch of kids (well, movie kids, which means young-looking hot people in their 20s) head to a cabin in the woods despite encountering an over-the-top hillbilly who prophesies doom. All the while, they're observed by a mysterious team of nerds (headed by the ever-delightful Bradley Whitford) that understands there's a formula to this kind of thing. Soon enough, there is murder and mayhem and intrigue, and to tell you too much more about the plot would be a crime—part of the giddy pleasure of Cabin is sitting through the twists and turns without much foreknowledge.

And Megan Seling was rightly infuriated by Bully:

While every tween and teenager in America really should see Bully, the emotional documentary is, even more so, required viewing for adults, as it’s the grown-ups in the film who end up looking completely awful....While moments of the film will make you cry (specifically the scene where a mother shows you the closet where her son hanged himself), the most memorable scenes are the ones that will turn your insides into a ball of rage. I went in expecting to sob, to be filled with sympathy for the kids and guilt over not being able to help—I walked out wanting to kick the system’s ass.

Read 'em all and more (Amy Scott on Detention!) right here.