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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Brad Pitt as Romantic Outlaw
Calling all pundits. It’s a baffling caprice of the zeitgeist to have two studio Westerns released in the…
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Hannah Takes the Stairs: Greta Gerwig Takes Our Hearts
First, the 16 mm New Wave; then the Super-8 No Wave; and now, an American film movement, based…
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Exiled: Another Hong Kong Shoot-Em-Up
Johnnie To is the lone Hong Kong action director who’s done his best work in the aftermath of…
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3:10 to Yuma: Russell Crowe Will Kill You and Your Entire Family
Huffing and puffing to resuscitate a long-moribund genre, James Mangold manages to imbue a 50-year-old Western with a…
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Manhattan: Woody Allen Shags a Teenager!
Manhattan is not just Woody Allen’s dream movie. Wistful as it is witty, it’s his dream of the…
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Pierrot le Fou: Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina Are the Sexiest Couple of 1965
The epitome of New Wave pop art romanticism, the 1965 Pierrot le Fou is as evocative of its…
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The Treatment: Ian Holm Leads Patient on Couch Trip
No less than Spider-Man 3, Oren Rudavsky’s The Treatment is an urban fairy tale. It’s an Upper West…
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September Dawn: Jon Voight Is a Mormon You Dont Want to Cross
One of the American indies least likely to appear at Sundance, September Dawn recounts the grim tale of…
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Ghosts of Cité Soleil: True-Life Thug Life in Haiti
Asger Leth’s documentary explores the Port-au-Prince slum Cité Soleil, identified by a U.N. agency as the “most dangerous…
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I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone: Kuala Lumpur Is Flooded With Longing
Led by a magic flute that not all can hear, avant-pop marches on: Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want…
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Half Moon: Again With the Kurdish Neorealism
Bahman Ghobadi, Dogpatch fabulist and dean of Iranian Kurdish cinema, leads another magical mystery tour through his mountainous…
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Syndromes and a Century: Another Time-Shifting Trance Film From Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand’s leading experimental filmmaker and international man of mystery, isn’t exactly a master of suspense. Still,…
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Sicko: Michael Moore Makes an Alarming, Infuriating Diagnosis
“We’re Americans. We go into other countries when we need to. It’s tricky, but it works.” So declares…
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Take One: Jolie Takes A Mighty Heart Hostage
Not since Lara Croft has the actress had so apposite an avatar.
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My Blueberry Nonsense, and Other Multi-Culti Mash-Ups
The world’s pre-eminent film festival celebrated its 60th birthday party, the opening banquet catered by the world’s hippest—or…
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Palm Fronds and Consolation Prizes
The 60th Cannes Film Festival was a generous one—and so was its jury, bestowing the Palme d’Or on…
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Fay Grim: Parker Posey Survives the 90s Better Than Hal Hartley
It’s hard to remember, but back in the early 1990s, Hal Hartley was regarded as the hot young…
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Offside: Iranian Women Fight for Their Right to Soccer Fandom
Jafar Panahi is a paradoxical populist. He makes crowd-pleasing art movies and is a virtuoso director of (non)…
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Sacco and Vanzetti: Like a 1920s Prologue to the War on Terror
Two lambs to the slaughter, the Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927 for…
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Showgirl
Paul Verhoeven's new heroine makes a typically nasty burlesque of the Holocaust in Black Book.