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I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You: Beauty in Brazil
Road movies don’t get any purer than this visual reverie— Bressonian in its austerity and transcendence, only with…
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Attack the Block: London Teens Battle Space Aliens
The smartest, funniest cheap monster-movie import this side of June’s Trollhunter, Attack the Block is a near-perfectly balanced…
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The Last Mountain: Environmental Ruin in West Virginia
A grueling barrage of geologic plunder, union-busting, sociopathic official indifference (hey, why not put a toxic-sludge lake next…
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Putty Hill: Dead-End Kids in Baltimore
Sharing the narrative opacity and marginal milieu of its 2006 predecessor Hamilton, this assured feature-length follow-up from Matt…
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Beautiful Boy: Maria Bello in a Columbine Grief-Fest
One of two current films dealing with the familial fallout of a teenager’s school shooting spree (Lynne Ramsay’s…
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Incendies: a Middle Eastern Soap Opera
This latest blast of unwavering miserablism from Denis Villeneuve, Oscar-nominated and everything, reaches for something deeper than mere…
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Hobo With a Shotgun: Great Title, No Story, Much Blood
Pick a reason to balk at this spot-on, garishly threadbare paean to ’80s no-budget sleaze: It apes a…
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Hesher: Check Out the Tats on Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Spencer Susser’s initially rousing Hesher introduces an engimatic stranger into a fractured family with equivocally redemptive results. The…
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Bill Cunningham New York: Fashion Comes First
No passion for fashion is required to enjoy this absorbing portrait of legendary New York Times “On the…
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Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold: Morgan Spurlock Sells Himself
As agreeable as it is insidious, Morgan Spurlock’s latest exposé of corporate control via immersive humiliation is his…
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The Human Resources Manager: A Mortal Errand in Romania
Tender irony and dark humor abound in Israeli director Eran Riklis’ latest account of bureaucracy colliding with burgeoning…
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Elektra Luxx: Carla Gugino as a Porn Star Gone Legit
Still on track to be the George Cukor of the stroke-movie set, Sebastian Gutierrez follows up 2009’s Women…