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Yes, Yoda is back to kick a little more ass.

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Back to the Future

The last Star Wars installment succeeds—mainly by returning us to the first.

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William Eggleston in the Real World

Runs Thurs., Nov. 10–Wed., Nov. 16, at Northwest Film Forum.

Who's fooling whom? Underwood and Roberts.

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Hollywood Confidential

Soderbergh gives an avant-garde spin to familiar material.

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10th District Court

Runs Fri., Jan. 27–Thurs., Feb. 2, at Varsity

Garbo, her famous hat, and Douglas in Ninotchka.

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Out of the past

Sixty-year-old movies seem contemporary indeed.

Beat Kitano teaches lethal lessons in Battle Royale.

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SIFF News

Week 4: A&Q.

Captain Bill commands a ship full of drollery.

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Neither Fish Nor Foul

Wes Anderson follows his peculiar compass into the shallows, but the movie's still an enjoyable yarn.

Velasquez scores with Lilliana Rodriguez.

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Wassup Rockers

Opens at Crest, Fri., July 21. Rated R. 105 minutes.

Sunset Blvd.

Arts & Culture

Sunset Blvd.

Hollywood insiders spill all.

A FLN courier (Mohamed Ben Kassen, left) reads instructions to illiterate Haggiag.

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Rocking the Casbah

This ain't the Boston Tea Party: A guerrilla-warfare classic pulls no punches in its depiction of the Algerian…

Relax, ladies! We've got hunks enough for everyone.

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House of cards

A bunch of jokers play their winning hand.

Slouching Toward Stockholm

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Slouching Toward Stockholm

Deadpan style livens up the apocalypse.

Shortz weighs his words.

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Wordplay

Opens at Harvard Exit, Fri., June 23. Rated PG. 90 minutes.

Cruz and Depp before the fall.

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Smuggler’s blues

Cocaine highs yield to family lows.

Charade: The Delights of Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant

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Charade: The Delights of Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant

Stanley Donen was famed as a director of musicals, and this delightful 1963 Euro thriller is fittingly light…

Crowe (at left) outworks an opponent (Art Binkowski).

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The Class Warrior

Ron Howard strips a genuine working man's hero of his social significance. But our Wal-Mart nation will probably…

Ballroom's dancers.

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Mad Hot Ballroom

LAST WEEK I sat down with Marilyn Agrelo, the warm and chatty New York–based director of Mad Hot…

Get us out of this movie! Walker worries, Sobieski sulks, Zahn drives.

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Retread

Once-reliable vehicle finds itself running on empty.

Ducksters (left to right): Perea, Miranda, Cataño, and Arreola.

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Duck Season

Opens at Varsity, Fri., March 24. Rated R. 85 minutes.

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Jim Jarmusch

He talks his Broken Flowers.