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Ricky Gervais (right) returns as Stiller's prickly boss.Joe Lederer/Twentieth Century Fox

Arts & Culture

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Opens Fri., Dec. 19

Night at the Museum: 
Secret of the Tomb Opens Fri., Dec. 19 at Majestic Bay and other theaters.…

Mark (Tatum) can't quite say what he wants.Scott Garfield/Sony Pictures Classics

Arts & Culture

Foxcatcher Opens Fri., Dec. 19 at Sundance and Meridian. Rated R. 134

Foxcatcher Opens Fri., Dec. 19 at Sundance and Meridian. Rated R. 134 minutes. Repeat after me: “Ornithologist, philatelist,…

The officer (Klein) tries vainly to keep her troops in line.Zeitgeist Films

Arts & Culture

Zero Motivation Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at Varsity. Not rated. 100 minutes.

Zero Motivation Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at Varsity. 
Not rated. 100 minutes. They don’t make movies like M*A*S*H…

Cheryl (Witherspoon) near the end of her journey.Anne Marie Fox/Fox Searchlight

Arts & Culture

Wild Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at Guild 45th and other theaters. Rated

Wild Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at Guild 45th and 
other theaters. Rated R. 115 minutes. This film was…

Rossum and Long as star-fated lovers?IFC Films

Arts & Culture

Comet Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at Sundance Cinemas. Not rated. 91 minutes.

Comet Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at Sundance Cinemas. Not rated. 91 minutes. A relationship put through a cracked…

Part of Croatian artist Mladen Stilinovic’s 1978 photo series The Artist at Work.

Arts & Culture

Jake who? The Jacob Lawrence Gallery was founded in 1983 at the

Jake who? The Jacob Lawrence Gallery was founded in 1983 at the University of Washington, where the pioneering…

The 1925 Women’s Century Club building may next house restaurants and retail.

Film

I have written this story several times before, which says something about

I have written this story several times before, which says something about the state of the indie/art-house movie…

An unnamed art-restoration expert works millimeter by millimeter.Zipporah Films

Arts & Culture

National Gallery Runs Fri., Dec. 5–Thurs., Dec. 11 at Northwest Film Forum.

National Gallery Runs Fri., Dec. 5–Thurs., Dec. 11 at Northwest Film Forum. 
Not rated. 173 minutes. Much as…

Burre washes her props in the sink.

Arts & Culture

Actress Runs Fri., Dec. 5–Thurs., Dec. 11 at Grand Illusion. Not rated.

Actress Runs Fri., Dec. 5–Thurs., Dec. 11 at 
Grand Illusion. Not rated. 86 minutes. It doesn’t really matter…

Hispanic-Apache painter John Nieto’s 1996 Buffalo at Sunset.

Arts & Culture

The museum director’s dilemma is this: too much mediocre art in the

The museum director’s dilemma is this: too much mediocre art in the world, not enough money. Unless you’re…

You damn pelicans get off my lawn furniture!Shadow Distribution

Arts & Culture

Pelican Dreams Opens Fri., Nov. 28 at Sundance Cinemas. Rated G. 80

Pelican Dreams Opens Fri., Nov. 28 at Sundance 
Cinemas. Rated G. 80 minutes. Bay Area director Judy Irving…

There will be penguins.Anthony Powell/Music Box Films

Arts & Culture

Antarctica: A Year on Ice Opens Fri., Nov. 28 at Varsity. Rated

Antarctica: A Year on Ice Opens Fri., Nov. 28 at Varsity. 
Rated PG. 91 minutes. First-time filmmaker Anthony…

Renee Cox’s Yo Mama’s Pieta.

Arts & Culture

Through a Lens Darkly Runs Fri., Nov. 21–Wed., Nov. 26 at Northwest

Through a Lens Darkly Runs Fri., Nov. 21–Wed., Nov. 26 at Northwest Film Forum. 
Not rated. 92 minutes.…

While Joe's away: Close and Fanning.Oscilloscope Laboratories

Arts & Culture

Low Down Opens Fri., Nov. 21 at Varsity. Rated R. 114 minutes.

Low Down Opens Fri., Nov. 21 at Varsity. 
Rated R. 114 minutes. Set in mid-’70s L.A., here’s a…

Top nuns Dobosh (left) and Siano.Danielle Barnum

Arts & Culture

The Habit 14 Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse, 7312 W. Green

The Habit 14 Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse, 7312 W. Green Lake Ave. N., 800-838-3006, thehabitcomedy.com. $19.…

Victims of biology? Hivju (left) and Kuhnke.Magnolia Pictures

Arts & Culture

Force Majeure Opens Fri., Nov. 21 at Seven Gables and SIFF Cinema

Force Majeure Opens Fri., Nov. 21 at Seven Gables and SIFF Cinema Uptown. Rated R. 118 minutes. On…

No country will take Ali (Maadi) back from Gitmo.Beth Dubber/IFC Films/Sundance Selects

Arts & Culture

Camp X-Ray Opens Fri., Nov. 14 at Sundance Cinemas. Rated R. 117

Camp X-Ray Opens Fri., Nov. 14 at Sundance Cinemas. Rated R. 117 minutes. Again, Kristen Stewart is in…

Tom Lincoln (Clarke) sees a big future for his son.Amplify Media

Arts & Culture

The Better Angels Opens Fri., Nov. 14 at Varsity. Rated PG. 94

The Better Angels Opens Fri., Nov. 14 at Varsity. 
Rated PG. 94 minutes. Lincoln and the log cabin—such…

Walker’s Cage Free Capitalism.

Arts & Culture

Back when BAM relaunched itself as the Bellevue Arts (plural, not singular,

Back when BAM relaunched itself as the Bellevue Arts (plural, not singular, though people still get it wrong)…

(c) Michael Wolf

Arts & Culture

In German photographer Michael Wolf’s series Architecture of Density, we see severely

In German photographer Michael Wolf’s series Architecture of Density, we see severely cropped frontal views of generic new…