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‘Movies That Mattered’ Captures Dave Kehr’s Astute Film Criticism
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‘Movies That Mattered’ Captures Dave Kehr’s Astute Film Criticism

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Christopher John Stephens
/ 21 November 2017

Dave Kehr is one of the best long-form essay writers people read for clear and sometimes brutally honest indictments of film.

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/ 29 March 2013
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