Fox Searchlight has either done a great job of picking up indie films over the past few years or they've done a great job of intentionally producing "indie-ish" films over the years. Either way, I've really enjoyed the stuff they've been putting out of late. Juno is the tale of an oddball high schooler who gets pregnant and decides to go through with the pregnancy and give her little sea monkey up for adoption (good for her).

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I grew up in the desert of eastern New Mexico and this film flawlessly captures the quiet, echoing wide-open spaces that the eastern New Mexico/west Texas desert is made of. There are long periods of time where dramatic landscape is accompanied by an equally dramatic silence. This is fitting for the desert of the southwest. Quiet. Dry. Hot. Windy. All these pieces of the setting make this the perfect place for an incredible thriller.

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