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Creation: Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin
Already a blogosphere punching bag for right-wing Christians, Creation—about Charles Darwin’s writing of On the Origin of Species—commits…
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PICK Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Animation We Dont Hate
By the time the brilliant fuck-up of a hero says to the heroine, “Why do you do that—say…
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PICK Soul Power: James Brown and Others in Their Funky Prime
Soul Power documents the three-day music festival that accompanied the iconic 1974 Muhammad Ali/George Foreman “Rumble in the…
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Crips & Bloods: Made in America: The Dogtown Director Doesnt Get Too Deep
Why is there so much violence in south L.A.? What are the historical roots of the Bloods and…
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PICK Medicine for Melancholy: Young Black Bohos in Love
“How do you define yourself?” It’s not until its third act that Medicine for Melancholy‘s lead male character…
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Were the World Mine: Shakespeare Is So Gay
Tom Gustafson’s queer-centric take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream teeters between banal conceptualizing and inspired execution. When…
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PICK Ten Nights of Dreams: Japanese Anthology Film Is Enthrallingly Weird
Based on an anthology of short stories published by Japanese writer Natsume Soseki in 1908, Ten Nights is…
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Young Yakuza: Japanese rappers cant save gangster doc.
Director Jean-Pierre Limosin’s Young Yakuza, a documentary on the immersion of a troubled Japanese youth into the shadowy,…
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Quantum Hoops: Better, and Smarter, than March Madness
This documentary is firmly rooted in a premise that Americans love and hold dear as a reflection of…
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Ex-Seattle Director Turns Queer Eye Candy Into Fluff in Boy Culture
Boy Culture is a film made by people just smart enough to acknowledge that the tropes of modern…