This week the Gene Siskel Film Center presents Happy Valley, a new documentary by Amir Bar-Lev (My Kid Could Paint That, The Tillman Story) that looks beyond the screaming headlines of the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal to the football-crazed culture that nurtured it; our review is here. Also in this week's issue Ben Sachs looks at The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1, which he calls the most cynical installment of the franchise yet.…
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