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Actress Helen Mirren in The Tempest.

Barney's Version, The Tempest and Casino Jack: Warming Up for Oscar

It's holiday time at the multiplex, when little films peep about between blockbusters in hopes of receiving some early awards-season notice. TIME's Richard Corliss takes stock of three contenders

Blogs

Tuned In

TV to Look Forward to in 2011

Having spent a lot of time this past couple of weeks looking back on 2010 here, it's time to look forward.

Movie Reviews

True Grit: Trading the Dude for the Duke

The Coen brothers' version of John Wayne's classic True Grit is a truer, grittier interpretation of the original Charles Portis novel. You've seen the movie, now see the book

Special Report

Holiday Movie Preview 2010

TIME critics Richard Corliss and Mary Pols sample the best and most anticipated films of the 2010 holiday season

World

The Top 10 Fiction Books of 2010

TIME picked the best fiction books of the year in our annual round-up of the Top 10 Everything.

Photos

'Mad Day Out': Beatles' Rare Photos

Outtakes and rarities from a legendary 1968 photo shoot are released in a new book, A Day in the Life of the Beatles (Rizzoli 2010)

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GENO AURIEMMA, Connecticut's coach on the side's record 90-game winning streak in women's basketball ending Thursday after losing to Stanford, who were the last team to beat them in 2008
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