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‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’: Do Inherently Evil Kids Exist?

We Need To Talk About Kevin

The controversial film We Need To Talk About Kevin raises the question: Can children be evil? Marlow Stern watched the movie with child psychiatrist Alan Ravitz. WARNING: Some spoilers.

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There have been quite a few controversial films in 2011. Human Centipede 2, banned in Britain, offered one of the more violent, nihilistic entries in the “torture porn” subgenre, while Steve McQueen’s mesmerizing NC-17 rated sex-addiction drama, Shame,

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