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Note by Note: Worlds Best Steinway Infomercial
Note by Note Given rapt attention and care in the framing, there is no more engrossing subject than…
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Teeth: Teen Sex Gets Even More Dangerous
Credit writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein with making a first feature that every man in America will watch with his…
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U2 3D: Irish Supergroup Gets Supersized
Three dimensions seem scarcely enough to contain the messianic impulses of the world’s hardest-rocking humanitarian aid project, and…
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How She Move: Better Than High School Musical
High School Musical excepted, dance figures now in teen movies mostly as competitive sport: Either it’s an NBA-like…
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The Orphanage: Old-School Frights From Spain
Having a child destroys your immune system to horror, real or imagined. As surely as Pan’s Labyrinth—whose…
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The 10 Best (Overlooked) Films of 2007
How tough is it for a movie to find its audience, above the din of blockbuster marketing and…
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: Spinal Tap Its Not
As an actor, John C. Reilly is the opposite of Mr. Cellophane. He doesn’t disappear into a role;…
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War/Dance: Out of African Misery Another Documentary Is Born
In a just world, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix’s documentary wouldn’t exist—at least not in this fashion. The…
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Lynch: Or, Everything You Wanted to Know About Inland Empire but Were Afraid to Ask
After staggering out of Inland Empire like a mole groping toward sunlight, you could be forgiven for thinking…
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Margot at the Wedding: Nicole Kidman Improved by Venom, Malice
This immersion in sibling malice and simmering resentment, with one of the most infuriating characters in recent movies…
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten: More Alive Than Anything on the Radio Today
Julien Temple’s engrossing portrait of the late Clash frontman uses snippets of everything from Raging Bull to an…
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Let’s Get Lost: Chet Baker as Gorgeous 50s Ghost
Call it The Death of the Cool. Anchoring the Earshot Jazz film series at NWFF, Let’s Get Lost…
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Gone Baby Gone: Ben Affleck Puts a Stake in Bennifer
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor…
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Czech Dream: Globalization Gets Punkd!
Hey, Prague—you got punk’d! In this subversive Central European slice of reality TV, Czech film students Vít Klusák…
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Interview: Journalist Steve Buscemi Battles Starlet Sienna Millerin a Steel Cage!
Steve Buscemi the director is nothing like the art-damaged auteur Buscemi the actor played in 1995’s Living in…
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Gypsy Caravan: Romani Musicians Spread Their Joyous Music
Don’t wait for Jasmine Dellal’s doc to end up broken between pledge-drive pitches: This joyous portrait of the…
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Cashback: Kwik-E-Mart Rendered as Art Gallery
Wong Kar-wai on aisle four and Michel Gondry on aisle six, with Kevin Smith as mop jockey at…
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LIceberg: BelgiumAgain Proven the Least Amusing of Benelux Countries
If the sight gag is dead, this excruciatingly precious Belgian comedy is less a resurrection than an autopsy.…
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Angel-A: Luc Besson Fails to Jump the Shark
What if you took It’s a Wonderful Life and replaced George Bailey with a scruffy Parisian con man…
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The Page Turner: Dont Bury Claude Chabrol Just Yet
Sure The Page Turner looks and sounds like an NPR junkie’s idea of thrill-crazy hothouse fare, but the…