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Just Wright: Queen Latifah Takes Her Career Back to the ’90s
Another movie, not as awful as this one, might one day find better use for the easygoing vibe…
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The Square: Noir From Down Under
Indebted to The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Square fails to raise (James M.) Cain. The feature-helming debut…
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City Island: Andy Garcia Channels His Inner Brando
Everyone in the Rizzo family has something to hide: Paterfamilias Vince (Andy Garcia) works as a corrections officer,…
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The Art of the Steal: Intrigue in the Museum World
Matisse called the Barnes Foundation “the only sane place to see art in America.” But the clamor over…
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Sweetgrass: Everything You Wanted to Know About Sheepherding, but Were Afraid to Ask
Though the breathtaking vistas of Big Sky Country in Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s unforgettable sheepherding documentary come…
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44 Inch Chest: Boorish Brits Beat Boyfriend
A quintet of pathetic pals are sized up in this often sharp, nasty exposé of masculinity, written by…
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The Spy Next Door: Jackie Chan and Billy Ray Cyrus Compare Bad Hair
Like director Brian Levant’s past two outings—2002’s Snow Dogs and 2005’s Are We There Yet?— Spy is immediately…
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond: Brush Up on Your Tennessee Williams
Consider: If Tennessee Williams’ script for Joseph Losey’s 1968 turkey Boom! (an adaptation of his play The Milk…
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee: A May-December Romance, Many Years Later
Rebecca Miller’s fourth feature may be the only film you’ll ever see with both Cornel West and Monica…
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Serious Moonlight: Meg Ryan Continues to Confound
Timothy Hutton is duct-taped to the potty, and Meg Ryan is just plain potty, in this posthumously produced…
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Earth Days: Eco-Doc Recalls the Green Early 70s
Veteran doc maker Robert Stone (Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Oswald’s Ghost) assembles nine talking, graying heads…
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La Danse: Just Another Superb Doc From Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman’s magnificent documentary offers a portrait of suppleness and agility—not just of the dancers’ bodies but of…
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Brothers: Jake Gyllenhaal Stars in a Needless Remake
Jim Sheridan’s remake of Danish director Susanne Bier’s 2005 original about the familial and psychic trauma caused by…
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The Blind Side: Sandra Bullock, Get Off the Gridiron!
Another poor, massive, uneducated African-American teenager lumbers onto screens this month, soon after Precious and obviously timed as…
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(Untitled): Adam Goldberg as Self-Hating Artiste
Aiming wide and missing, this satire of the contemporary-art scene was seemingly lifted from the transcripts of late-’80s…
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Good Hair: Chris Rock Mocks Locks
Don Imus’ hateful, racist 2007 remarks about “nappy-headed hos” underscored the immense fear of and fascination with the…
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Coco Before Chanel: Audrey Tautou Puts Career Before Love
Anne Fontaine’s biopic gives us Belle-Époque Coco, opening in 1893 with a grim scene of the 10-year-old waif…
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The September Issue: An Infomercial for Vogue
When earlier this decade I worked as a freelancer for a publication two floors below Vogue, each sighting…
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My One and Only: Renée Zellweger Gives Birth to George Hamilton
Your enjoyment of My One and Only will depend on how much the words “inspired by incidents in…
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Taking Woodstock: A 60s Trip We Dont Need to Take
“If you remember Woodstock, you probably weren’t there,” the expression goes. And if you were, can you please…