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Sherlock Holmes
As overemphatic as one might expect from the ham-fisted Guy Ritchie, this resurrection of the world’s most famous…
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Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Holds His Own in a Very Enjoyable Backstage Tale
Orson Welles lives on not only in posthumously restored director’s cuts of his movies but as a character…
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The Yes Men Fix the World: If Only Capitalism Were This Funny
The anti-globalist performance guys who call themselves the Yes Men are masters of forging corporate rhetoric and media…
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Liverpool: Another Landscape Movie From Lisandro Alonso
As with his previous films, Argentine director Lisandro Alonso’s Liverpool is defined by its trajectory. A taciturn merchant…
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The Men Who Stare at Goats: George Clooney Cant Read Your Mind
Goats begins with the mind-fucking assertion that “more of this is true than you would believe.” And would…
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Beeswax: Mumblecore Comes of Age
Though no one’s idea of an action film, Andrew Bujalski’s Beeswax feels less charmingly aimless than its radically…
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Antichrist: Lars von Trier Continues to Annoy
Lars von Trier’s doggedly outrageous, fearsomely ambitious two-hander is so desperate to make you feel something—if only a…
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Where the Wild Things Are: Not Terrible, But in Need of Some Terror
Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children’s picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things…
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Bright Star: The Quiet Return of Jane Campion
Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane…
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The Baader Meinhof Complex: Germanys Radical 70s Make Little Sense Today
Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction were the…
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PICK The Beaches of Agnès: A Veteran Director Powered by Love
The great idiosyncratic original of the French nouvelle vague generation, Agnès Varda began her career as a photographer,…
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Inglourious Basterds: World War II According to Tarantino
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment—rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.…
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PICK Tony Manero: Finding Evil in a Disco Classic
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s alarming Tony Manero—set in the dark days of the Pinochet regime and named not…
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Audience of One: Faith on Film
Michael Jacobs’ Audience of One belongs to a particular nonfiction genre—the docu-exploitation of a spectacularly miscarried movie. Jacobs’…
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$9.99: A Claymation Spiritual Quest
Tatia Rosenthal’s stop-motion animation feature adds a measure of stolid creepiness to co-writer Etgar Keret’s brand of dark…
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PICK Brüno: Sacha Baron Cohen Feels Your Shame
Willkommen to the new Sacha Baron Cohen extravaganza Brüno (directed by guerrilla filmmaker Larry Charles), which is often…
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Whatever Works: No, Woody, It Doesnt
Woody Allen’s first New York movie after five years abroad, Whatever Works is his first in even longer…
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PICK Treeless Mountain: An American Indie Shot in South Korea
Kid performers naturally introduce elements of magic and mystery into the most banal situations. They are most resonant,…
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PICK Tulpan: A Minimalist Marvel From Kazakhstan
The first feature by Russian ethno-documentarian Sergei Dvortsevoy is a fiction founded on a powerful sense of place—and…
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PICK Tetro: Francis Ford Coppolas Imaginary Family History
As this baroque genealogical melodrama reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo fixes his pale gaze on young…