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    Articles by Chris Packham
    Streisand and Rogen don't hit many bumps on their drive.
    The Guilt Trip: Barbra Streisand Is Game for...
    By Chris Packham • December 18, 2012 12:00 am

    Once comic actors reach a particular career stage, they often choose one of two paths: a) They stop being funny…

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    Florizoone in the flush of first love.
    North Seas Texas: Belgian Boys Fall in Love
    By Chris Packham • December 4, 2012 12:00 am

    Recently, popular films about gay characters have started moving beyond the overarching plot about society’s acceptance of sexual identity and…

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    Duris as a new man.
    The Big Picture: A Lawyer’s Unlawful Identity Theft
    By Chris Packham • November 27, 2012 12:00 am

    “You’re as free as the wind,” says Paul Exben (Romain Duris) to the son of a legal client to whom…

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    The titular artist.
    Bel Borba Aqui: Folk Art in Brazil
    By Chris Packham • November 20, 2012 12:00 am

    The demolished buildings of Salvador, Brazil, are substrates for public art to one native son. Bel Borba, a mixed-media artist…

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    An enchanted scene in the woods.
    Tales of the Night: Neat French Animation for...
    By Chris Packham • November 13, 2012 12:00 am

    Sometimes when you appropriate the storytelling modes of other cultures or time periods, the result is an enormous, semi-informed embarrassment…

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    Day-Lewis as our 16th president.
    Lincoln: Daniel Day-Lewis Is Amazing
    By Chris Packham • November 6, 2012 12:00 am

    Daniel Day Lewis Is Amazing

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    Taking off the warpaint: McDormand and Penn.
    This Must Be the Place: Sean Penn Hunts...
    By Chris Packham • November 6, 2012 12:00 am

    Google “Danzig shopping for cat supplies,” and you’ll find links to phone-cam shots of former Misfits singer Glenn Danzig crossing…

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    A boy and his dog.
    Frankenweenie: Tim Burton Successfully Revives His Old Short
    By Chris Packham • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

    Ever since Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton has been mostly in the adaptation business, rendering dark and becurlicued Sleepy Hollows and…

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    The Oranges' two clans.
    The Oranges: Hugh Laurie as Stifled Suburban Dad
    By Chris Packham • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

    Yeah, all right already, we get it about suburbia: It’s a topography of middle-aged despair hidden under a sunny beige…

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    Farahani as the haunting lost love.
    Chicken With Plums: Obsessive Love, From Marjane Satrapi’s...
    By Chris Packham • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

    Narrated by Death himself, embodied by the archangel Azraël, Chicken With Plums is the second adaptation of comic book artist…

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    From left, BFFs Caplan, Dunst, and Fisher.
    Bachelorette: Kirsten Dunst and Her Cohort Make Naughty
    By Chris Packham • September 4, 2012 12:00 am

    In Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette, the bride’s wedding dress is in terrible danger, and you know it the second that Regan…

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    The artist's implacable stare.
    Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present: Staring Back...
    By Chris Packham • September 4, 2012 12:00 am

    For three months in 2010, Serbian-born performance artist Marina Abramovic sat in a chair in a gallery at New York’s…

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    Garfield shows his sticky talents.
    The Amazing Spider-Man: A Comic-Book Movie That Deserves...
    By Chris Packham • July 2, 2012 12:00 am

    Spider-Man’s story is some primal-ass teenage wish fulfillment: nerds beating jocks, astonishing old people, romancing hot girls, dangling criminals from…

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