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SIFF Week 2: 20 New Picks & Pans SIFF Week 2: 20 New Picks & Pans
By Seattle Weekly Critics, May 23, 2012
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Unforgivable/6:30 p.m., Harvard Exit Unforgivable? Interminable is more like it. Veteran writer/director André... More>>
First Position: The Ardors of Dance First Position: The Ardors of Dance
By Nick Schager, May 23, 2012
The nonfiction formula pioneered by Spellbound leads to frustrating superficiality in this glossy documentary about a multicultural collection of... More>>
Headhunters: Art Theft and Murder in Norway Headhunters: Art Theft and Murder in Norway
By Michael Atkinson, May 23, 2012
Arguably the strangest of the many recent Scandinavian movies to rifle through modern American-indie tropes and then cash in by getting bought up... More>>
Hit So Hard: Meet Hole (and Heroin) Survivor Patty Schemel Hit So Hard: Meet Hole (and Heroin) Survivor Patty Schemel
By Camille Dodero, May 23, 2012
In the drug-addicted annals of monster-rock band Hole's lady legacy, there's the one who died (bassist Kristen Pfaff), the one whose husband died... More>>
Post Mortem: A Harrowing Drama of Pinochet-Era Chile Post Mortem: A Harrowing Drama of Pinochet-Era Chile
By Melissa Anderson, May 23, 2012
"Nobody can escape the wheel of history," a physician says in Pablo Larraín's devastating follow-up to Tony Manero (2008). That film, a... More>>
SIFF: Innocence and Experience SIFF: Innocence and Experience
By Brian Miller, May 16, 2012
You'll find two main varieties of SIFFgoers at the Seattle International Film Festival, now in its 38th year. First are the savvy veterans,... More>>
SIFF: A Q&A With Lynn Shelton SIFF: A Q&A With Lynn Shelton
By Brian Miller, May 16, 2012
It's quite the honor to be selected as SIFF's opening-night feature, particularly when Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister is the first genuinely... More>>
SIFF: Rick Stevenson's 10-Year Documentary SIFF: Rick Stevenson's 10-Year Documentary
By Sean Axmaker, May 16, 2012
If the documentary The 5,000 Days Project: Two Brothers, which follows its subjects over the span of 10 years, makes you think of the British... More>>
SIFF: Week 1 Picks & Pans SIFF: Week 1 Picks & Pans
By Seattle Weekly Critics, May 16, 2012
THURSDAY, MAY 17 [PICK] Your Sister's Sister/7 p.m., McCaw Hall For decades, it seems, Seattle's tiny film community has been waiting for The... More>>
Battleship: Liam Neeson Versus the Aliens Battleship: Liam Neeson Versus the Aliens
By Nick Pinkerton, May 16, 2012
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless, it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg's Battleship, which I swear to... More>>
Bernie: Jack Black in a True-Life Texas Crime Story Bernie: Jack Black in a True-Life Texas Crime Story
By Nick Pinkerton, May 16, 2012
The script for Bernie was in part dictated from the stand: In a 1997 murder trial in Carthage, Texas, Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede, a closeted... More>>
The Dictator: Sacha Baron Cohen Attempts Scripted Comedy The Dictator: Sacha Baron Cohen Attempts Scripted Comedy
By Karina Longworth, May 16, 2012
Admiral General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), dictator of the fictional North African nation Wadiya, travels to New York to defend Wadiya's... More>>
Mansome: Morgan Spurlock's Shallow Grooming Doc Mansome: Morgan Spurlock's Shallow Grooming Doc
By Nick Pinkerton, May 16, 2012
"I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don't really know it." So says "biological anthropologist" Helen Fisher, speaking in... More>>
What to Expect When You're Expecting: Cameron Diaz (and Others) Get Knocked Up What to Expect When You're Expecting: Cameron Diaz (and Others) Get Knocked Up
By Eric Hynes, May 16, 2012
Heidi Murkoff's mega-bestselling mommy manual actually makes perfect sense as a vehicle for a contemporary Hollywood ensemble comedy. For an... More>>
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Brits out of Water The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Brits out of Water
By Nick Pinkerton, May 09, 2012
The British have practically cornered the multiplex's senior demo (think Waking Ned Devine and Calendar Girls) and look to be continuing the run... More>>
The Cup: Tears at the Horse Track The Cup: Tears at the Horse Track
By Brian Miller, May 09, 2012
Because so many Americans closely follow Australian horse racing, we can assume you already know the true-life story of jockey Damien Oliver and... More>>
Dark Shadows: Johnny Depp in a Non-Pirate Role for Once Dark Shadows: Johnny Depp in a Non-Pirate Role for Once
By Nick Pinkerton, May 09, 2012
Dark Shadows slips the "Tim Burton treatment" to the supernaturally themed daytime soap of the same name, which aired daily on ABC from 1966 to... More>>
Michael: Pedophilia Only Implied, Not Shown Michael: Pedophilia Only Implied, Not Shown
By Nick Pinkerton, May 09, 2012
Michael (Michael Fuith) is a 30-something unmarried insurance agent who, by necessity, meticulously keeps up domestic ritual. Michael, you see,... More>>
Nobody Else but You: The Dead Girl Sasses Back Nobody Else but You: The Dead Girl Sasses Back
By Erin K. Thompson, May 09, 2012
David Rousseau, a famous detective novelist, is passing through the small town of Mouthe, colloquially known as "Little Siberia" for its freezing... More>>
Patience (After Sebald): A Trek Through Suffolk Patience (After Sebald): A Trek Through Suffolk
By Michelle Orange, May 09, 2012
As suggested by a scholar in this numinous essay-doc, if the current craze for walking a pilgrim's path can't be tied directly to the German... More>>
The Perfect Family: Whatever Happened to Kathleen Turner? The Perfect Family: Whatever Happened to Kathleen Turner?
By Ernest Hardy, May 09, 2012
There's a vague echo of John Waters' Serial Mom in director Anne Renton's The Perfect Family. But where Waters' satiric look at the lengths to... More>>
Attenberg: Sexual Awakening in Greece Attenberg: Sexual Awakening in Greece
By Karina Longworth, May 02, 2012
Athina Rachel Tsangari's disarming second feature—Greece's unsuccessful submission for a Best Foreign Oscar nomination one year after... More>>
Darling Companion: Diane Keaton's Dog Is Missing! Darling Companion: Diane Keaton's Dog Is Missing!
By Melissa Anderson, May 02, 2012
"Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms," George Eliot once wrote. That's certainly the appeal... More>>
Death of a Superhero: The Portrait of an Angry Young Artist Death of a Superhero: The Portrait of an Angry Young Artist
By Brian Miller, May 02, 2012
Adapting his 2006 young-adult novel, Anthony McCarten doesn't mishandle the material—the story of a 15-year-old Dublin kid hoping to lose... More>>
Elles: Juliette Binoche Is Curious About Hookers Elles: Juliette Binoche Is Curious About Hookers
By Benjamin Mercer, May 02, 2012
As she prepares for a dinner party and fields rude dismissals from her two spoiled sons, journalist Anne (Juliette Binoche) thinks back on her... More>>
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  1. Marvel's The Avengers, 55.6 mil, 457.7 mil
  2. Battleship, 25.5 mil, 25.5 mil
  3. The Dictator, 17.4 mil, 24.5 mil
  4. Dark Shadows, 12.6 mil, 50.7 mil
  5. What to Expect When You're Expecting, 10.5 mil, 10.5 mil
  6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 3.2 mil, 8.2 mil
  7. The Hunger Games, 3.0 mil, 391.6 mil
  8. Think Like a Man, 2.7 mil, 85.8 mil
  9. The Lucky One, 1.8 mil, 56.9 mil
  10. The Pirates! Band of Misfits, 1.6 mil, 25.5 mil
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