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Citadel: An Englishman’s Paternal Nightmare
Reportedly inspired by a violent mugging experienced by writer/director Ciarán Foy, this hopelessly muddled horror movie takes place…
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The Flat: A Fascinating Doc About the Holocaust
It begins as an ordinary, if bittersweet, family event. The 98-year-old grandmother of Israeli filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger has…
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Chasing Ice: Following the Scientist Who Follows Global Warming
If you recently had a close encounter with the howling demon known as Superstorm Sandy, you might have…
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Kill List: Even Hit Men Have Their Domestic Worries
Hit men have bills to pay, too, and sometimes a kid to feed and an anxious wife to…
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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark: Won’t Someone Please Save Katie Holmes?
Die-hard horror fans (including this one) generally spend their adult lives hoping to re-experience the fear and awe…
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Vanishing on 7th St.: Is This the Rapture or What?
One night an electrical blackout rolls across Detroit, and when the sun comes up, the city’s population has…
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Patrik, Age 1.5: Homophobia and Tolerance in Sweden
Their new suburban house is lovely, the neighbors friendly, the nursery ready—and now all that Göran (Gustaf Skarsgård)…
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Get Low: Robert Duvall Is Fixin’ to Die
It’s 1938, and Tennessee hermit Felix Bush (Robert Duvall), in a self-imposed exile for 40 years, decides to…
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The Greatest: Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan Experience Every Parents Nightmare
Hours after losing his virginity to Rose (An Education‘s Carey Mulligan), his dream girl, 18-year-old Bennett Brewer (Aaron…
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2012: John Cusack Pretends to Care About CGI Tidal Waves
Completing his multi-film vendetta against the world’s tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all…
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The Damned United: Michael Sheen Is Nothing Like Tony Blair
We call it soccer, but for the Brits it’s football, and it’s damn serious business. From 1968 to…
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The Ugly Truth: Katherine Heigl Tries to Tame the 300 Guy
In this lushly produced but dispiriting new comedy, Katherine Heigl stars as Abby Richter, a successful but hopelessly…
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Shuttle: Yet Another Blood-Soaked Argument for Public Transportation
Next time, spring for a cab. Sadly, there may not be a next time for two young women…
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Save Me: UtahNo Home for the Gays
Save Me‘s plot sounds like a ripped-from-the-headlines gay play circa five years ago, but the film itself subverts…
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Soul Men: We Miss Bernie Mac
In Soul Men, actor-comedian Bernie Mac, who passed away in August, plays Floyd Henderson, a present-day car-wash mogul…
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Traitor: Don Cheadle Turns to the Dark Side
Opens at Guild 45 and Lincoln Square, Wed., Aug. 27. Rated PG-13. 114 minutes. In its well-written first…
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Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins: Martin Lawrence Dials It Down, Barely
In this overlong but exuberantly performed comedy from writer-director Malcolm D. Lee (Undercover Brother), Martin Lawrence is…
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The Mist: Stephen King Gives Us Too Much Chatter, Not Enough Monsters
As one of what novelist Stephen King calls his Constant Readers, I was jazzed when word came that…
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P2: At Last! A Movie About Parking!
After being KO’d in the underground parking garage of her Manhattan office building, Angela (Rachel Nichols), a workaholic…