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100%
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A River Changes Course (2013) |
"
For the most part, the narrative here feels generational, representative, rather than invested in the specific incidents of specific lives."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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100%
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A.K.A. Doc Pomus (2013) |
"
Even if you know this history already, A.K.A. Doc Pomus is vital and endearing, a celebration of a great artist, a great character, and the universality of great pop."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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60%
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Vikingdom (2013) |
"
The first Hobbit picture's digital armies have a higher pixel rate, but Vikingdom packs in twice as much fun and thrice as much incident in much less running time."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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94%
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Muscle Shoals (2013) |
"
The archival footage is strong, Camalier is generous with musical clips, and the talking heads generate some drama when describing epochal moments like Aretha's first session."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 24, 2013
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71%
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Out in the Dark (2013) |
"
The movie is involving, the romance affecting, the sex sound, and the catch-as-catch-can handheld camerawork smartly appropriate for the scenario ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 24, 2013
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51%
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A Single Shot (2013) |
"
David M. Rosenthal's sturdy, nasty rural noir, based on Matthew F. Jones's novel, is so sharp and rusted through that, after taking it in, you'll likely need a tetanus shot."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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99%
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
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Even swollen to IMAX size, the movie is sharper than you've ever seen it, and the vaudevillian brilliance of the choreography (and Ray Bolger's straw-boned tumbling) is entirely undiminished."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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89%
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After Tiller (2013) |
"
The film is warm and scrupulous, like a sunny women's clinic."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 17, 2013
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98%
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Wadjda (2013) |
"
A simple, solid, deeply affecting film, Wadjda is something rare: the work of a female Saudi filmmaker, Haifaa Al Mansour, and a feature from a country that has long outlawed cinemas."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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84%
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Blue Caprice (2013) |
"
The tragedy, the fresh revelation of Blue Caprice is in seeing this boy with all such humanity stolen from him."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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34%
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Salinger (2013) |
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What the movie gets hilariously, howlingly wrong is the idea that a life like Salinger's-so extraordinary, yet so willfully humdrum-could somehow be captured by the most shopworn of cinematic techniques."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 3, 2013
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100%
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Tokyo Waka: A City Poem (2013) |
"
An edifying whole, a film of beauty and revelation ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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34%
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Passion (2013) |
"
Passion is pretty good. If you cared enough to make a list, it might be your fifth or sixth favorite De Palma."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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69%
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I Declare War (2013) |
"
Its heroes are kids; its villains are kids; its fantasies are kids'. But its truths are adult."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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81%
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Una noche (One Night) (2013) |
"
This urban slice-of-life becomes a tale of arguing kids, each touchingly preoccupied with his or her own sexual identity, all at odds with the elements themselves."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 20, 2013
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38%
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First Comes Love (2013) |
"
First Comes Love is, before anything else, a portrait of a longing so deep that even the commandingly articulate Davenport struggles to put it into words."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 14, 2013
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30%
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Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
You might not mind that director Jeff Wadlow, even more than Vaughn, has made sure that it's only the images that are provocative--never the ideas."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 14, 2013
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31%
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Austenland (2013) |
"
Austenland the movie is built on the understanding that fantasy is healthy until you elect to live in it-and that sometimes a chase to the airport isn't something you should bother with in the real world."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 13, 2013
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83%
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The Patience Stone (2013) |
"
The movie makes all this single-room, beating-her-breast stuff more punishing than the novel does, and less rewarding as well."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 13, 2013
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84%
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Prince Avalanche (2013) |
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It's a schlubby, existential, black-box-theater character study, steeped in warm silences and anxious boys' talk, sugared up with sublime shots of fire-ravaged forest and wild streams percolating with raindrops."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2013
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55%
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I Give It a Year (2013) |
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Not just diverting but surprisingly thoughtful, even if we're never given too much reason to care about Nat and Josh."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2013
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38%
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) |
"
Before it descends into Percy Jackson and the Things That Happen in Movies Like This, the adventure at times clicks into the inventive groove of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson novels ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2013
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84%
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Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers (2013) |
"
The doc breezily sketches out the process of casing, smashing, grabbing, escaping, and fencing, not in as much detail as David Samuels's stellar New Yorker piece on the Panthers a couple years back, but with some added pathos."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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91%
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The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
Hey, Hollywood can still do romance!"
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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78%
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Europa Report (2013) |
"
Simply put, the care and thoughtfulness that goes into footage-faking has not been applied to the film's script or structure."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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52%
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The To Do List (2013) |
"
Like first sex, writer-director Maggie Carey's debut feature, The To Do List, is quick and messy, fitfully pleasurable, full of promise but not quite adept at getting everyone off."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 22, 2013
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98%
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Blackfish (2013) |
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The movie is revealing, wrenching, and important, a reminder that what feels wrong in our gut-the effort to turn free-roaming and unknowable beasts into caged vaudevillians-is always worth investigating. "
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 16, 2013
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87%
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The Conjuring (2013) |
"
Damned if director James Wan, the auteur of Saw's rusted-edge cruelty, isn't an ace with enjoyable spookhouse trap-springing."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 15, 2013
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60%
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Les Coquillettes () |
"
Distinguished by bristling comic performances, from both the women and their quarry ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2013
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81%
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Crystal Fairy (2013) |
"
Every clear-eyed insight into why pushy people insist on pushing is matched by loose ensemble humor and lyric reveries ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2013
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33%
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Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle (2013) |
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The film is both celebration and elegy, a sing-along and a cry-along, a cathartic moan and a perfect bliss-out."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 27, 2013
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50%
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White House Down (2013) |
"
White House Down stands as a singular achievement in parody, its auteur's intentions be damned."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 26, 2013
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0%
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Hating Breitbart (2012) |
"
[A] shapeless, uncritical documentary."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 26, 2013
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54%
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Some Girl(s) (2013) |
"
It doesn't take pattern-recognition software to catch some shared, troubling concerns here. But the charitable viewer will remember that ugly themes aren't necessarily a thesis."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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67%
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Downloaded (2013) |
"
The doc is only about as revealing as a middling magazine article on the subject. But it will fascinate and frustrate anyone already interested ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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78%
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Monsters University (2013) |
"
Even when Pixar isn't aspiring to an idea, it has a way with genre."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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90%
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The Attack (2013) |
"
Arresting and upsetting ..."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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84%
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This Is the End (2013) |
"
This is all performed with brio, by likable performers with expert timing, ace chemistry, and a directing team eager to let them tear loose. But it can wear you down."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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83%
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Aliyah (2013) |
"
A marvelous film, stripped of false urgency."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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22%
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Violet & Daisy (2013) |
"
The key relationships are well drawn, if not especially revealing of anything human, and director Fletcher sometimes dares some welcome absurdity."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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38%
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The Purge (2013) |
"
The set-up is arresting, the domestic scenes well observed and acted, and the payoffs involving that Roomba toy excellent. Also, a late-film twist isn't a surprise, exactly, but it is delicious."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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86%
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Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013) |
"
The story is a fascinating, hilarious one, well told."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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11%
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After Earth (2013) |
"
Jaden is fine at running, jumping, fearful trembling, and affecting steely resolution. He doesn't yet have his father's charisma; perhaps to help him out, dad opted not to bring that charisma to the set."
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Village Voice
Posted May 30, 2013
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72%
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The Wall (2013) |
"
Gedeck narrates in full paragraphs, explaining every feeling, telling us about moments it might have been nice to see dramatized."
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Village Voice
Posted May 28, 2013
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95%
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Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself (2013) |
"
Crammed with lit-world walk-ons and delicious anecdotes ..."
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Village Voice
Posted May 21, 2013
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69%
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Fast & Furious 6 (2013) |
"
Everyone involved at last seems to understand that the mode here is comic. Previous entries suffered from self-important glumness that gummed up the fun whenever the cars weren't racing."
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Village Voice
Posted May 17, 2013
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48%
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Black Rock (2013) |
"
Black Rock upends most American action films' nativist impulses, but it never settles into satirizing or transcending them."
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Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2013
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80%
|
Becoming Traviata (2013) |
"
Time with Dessay is worth treasuring, even when she's not singing."
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Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2013
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100%
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The World Before Her (2013) |
"
With extraordinary access, Pahuja illuminates extraordinary conflicts and contradictions facing modern girls in a country even less ready for them than ours."
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Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2013
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