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Star Drek

Oldly going where many men have gone before.

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Give up on this ghost

Robin Williams goes to heaven, while the movie goes straight to hell.

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200 butts

Watching this movie is something like staring at a stuffed ashtray the morning after a bad party.

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Boobs

When the most noticeable ones aren't the ones on Vicki Lewis, you know your film's in trouble.

Arts & Culture

Fine ‘tooned’

Does the evolutionary ladder of comic strips inevitably lead to 'Dilbert'?

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Creepy, spooky, stupid

Why The X-Files bombs on the big screen.

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Reel life

An unvarnished—and unpretentious—look at lives of quiet desperation.

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Where’s the promised land?

Before there were special effects, miracles must have been really impressive. Nowadays, people have a critical eye—they want…

Arts & Culture

Dear David

An open letter to David Foster Wallace.

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History lesson

Alexander Payne shows Hollywood how comedy was done when it was done right

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Gushmore

In which our critic is entirely seduced by Wes Anderson's new offering.

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Here comes the Spain again

SIFF celebrates the resurgence of Spanish cinema.

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Austin’s Power Failure

An impotent Powers delivers a flaccid film.

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SIFFting

Assessing in advance the biggest and best SIFF to date

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Not now, girls

Colette Burson on the indignities of censorship.

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Portrait of the sexpot as a young girl

A conversation with James Kincaid about the meanings of 'Lolita.'

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Honey, I shrunk the screen

Tiny but mighty, microcinemas boom in Seattle

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Bill’s excellent adventure

After two copulating birds bash into his satellite dish, the blandly handsome Grant develops god-like powers. When he…

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Hold the cheese

All the warning signs are there—but thankfully, the cheap and cheesy sentiments never arrive.

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Herding clichés

All the elements of a cowboy classic—except for plot, character, and story.