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Anna Paquin as Lisa Cohen with Matt Damon as her math teacher. This is the third time we’ve seen Paquin as a student temptress (25th Hour, The Squid and the Whale) and in all three the movie is set in New York. Paquin won an Oscar as a child and is now best known for True Blood, in which she has sex with a variety of supernatural creatures.

Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret, shot in 2005 and released just last year due to editing problems and legal tangles, is raw, intense and amazing. It’s the kind of movie where someone gets hit by a bus and as she lies on the street bewildered and bleeding she asks people what happened, and when they tell her she says, “You gotta be kidding me.”

Margaret is the kind of movie where you want to yell, “You self-dramatizing bitch, not everything is about you!” and moments later somebody does it for you: “This isn’t an opera! And we are not all supporting characters to the drama of your amazing life!” Probably best to see it at home so that every time you want to slap Anna Paquin you can channel your energy into cleaning surfaces or shining shoes.