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Articles by Nathan Lee
Don’t touch his rings! Don’t touch his majestic white ponytail! Karl Lagerfeld hates you, because you are ugly and fat.
Lagerfeld Confidential: Darlings, you are all very ugly...
By Nathan Lee • May 27, 2008 12:00 am

Fashionista Karl Lagerfeld cultivated his iconic reputation working at a variety of established labels—moving from Chloé to Fendi to the…

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Polanco labors in Chop Shop.
Chop Shop: Neorealism in New York
By Nathan Lee • April 15, 2008 12:00 am

You come away from Chop Shop with a mood, the voluptuous sum of its fine-tuned parts: the way a rundown…

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Beckinsale ponders her fate.
Snow Angels: Somebody’s Out to Kill Kate Beckinsale!
By Nathan Lee • March 18, 2008 12:00 am

An unusually blunt melodrama by David Gordon Green, melodious poet of such sentimental delicacies as George Washington and All the…

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Balibar is a veteran of Rivette’s games.
The Duchess of Langeais: More of Jacques Rivette’s...
By Nathan Lee • March 4, 2008 12:00 am

  Having returned from Africa, “held prisoner by savages for two years before fleeing,” the Marquis de Montriveau (Guillaume Depardieu)…

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Close (left) gets up close and personal with the dead.
Diary of the Dead: Zombies Enter the YouTube...
By Nathan Lee • February 12, 2008 12:00 am

  Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. “If you run that fast, your ankles will…

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Happiness is a warm gun.
Untraceable: Diane Lane Is a Cougar With a...
By Nathan Lee • January 22, 2008 12:00 am

Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First of all, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little thriller with…

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Swarming Spermatozoa!
Swarming Spermatozoa!
By Nathan Lee • November 28, 2007 12:00 am

David Lynch’s first freaky love child

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Jiseon Kim strays from parental expectation.
In Between Days: Behold the Bold, Beautiful, Melancholy...
By Nathan Lee • November 6, 2007 12:00 am

In Between Days is instantly compelling. Dwarfed inside a fur-rimmed parka, a young girl trumps through snow, her silhouette framed…

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At least Marla Olmstead dresses like Julian Schnabel.
My Kid Could Paint That: Most Adorable Art...
By Nathan Lee • October 16, 2007 12:00 am

An irresistible subject for a documentary: the charming celebrity of Marla Olmstead, an artist from upstate New York whose talent…

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Steam-powered? Schwartzman and Amara Karen.
The Darjeeling Limited: Wes Anderson Lets Go of...
By Nathan Lee • October 9, 2007 12:00 am

The estranged brothers Whitman have reunited for a journey on board the Darjeeling Limited, a colorful old locomotive traversing the…

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Noir Daydream
Noir Daydream
By Nathan Lee • September 19, 2007 12:00 am

Welcome to Gus Van Sant country, circa 1985

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Turgoose grows up in a hurry.
This Is England: No Nostalgia for the Thatcher...
By Nathan Lee • September 4, 2007 12:00 am

Drawing on memories of a specific place and time—England in the early ’80s—writer-director Shane Meadows nails the look and feel…

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Maggie Q prepares her best shot.
Balls of Fury: Christopher Walken Turns Chinese!
By Nathan Lee • August 28, 2007 12:00 am

1. Balls of Fury is a movie about: (a) A former table-tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona) enlisted by…

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Danny Glover has a role in the show trial.
Bamako: Justice in Africa (If Only On-Screen)
By Nathan Lee • August 7, 2007 12:00 am

Drawing equally from declamatory African traditions and European modernist procedures, Bamako stages a kind of Third World Epic Theater. Set…

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Järvenhelmi and Hyytiäinen in an icy romance.
Lights in the Dusk: Enough, Aki, Enough!
By Nathan Lee • July 31, 2007 12:00 am

Lights derives scant excitement from its melodramatic plot, which satisfies a dismal, ineluctable formula with stultifying efficiency. Nor is it…

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Damon again gets an intelligence assist from Julia Stiles.
The Bourne Ultimatum: Matt Damon Is the Anti–Jack...
By Nathan Lee • July 31, 2007 12:00 am

In which our hero confronts his programmers in Langley. Bauer would not approve.

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She takes a village: local mattressback Leroux.
Flanders: Bruno Dumont, WTF?
By Nathan Lee • July 31, 2007 12:00 am

Not, alas, a biopic of the Simpsons’ god-fearing neighbor. The latest from philosophy-professor-turned-cineaste Bruno Dumont marks a return to the…

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Michelle Yeoh is on fire!
Sunshine: Not Quite Trainspotting in Space
By Nathan Lee • July 24, 2007 12:00 am

It is the year 2057. Approximately 5 billion years ahead of schedule, the sun is beginning to die. In a…

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Cheadle has no time for girlfriend Taraji P. Henson.
Talk to Me: Again Don Cheadle Outshines His...
By Nathan Lee • July 24, 2007 12:00 am

Having ascended to genre supremacy, the biopic has long since reached its imaginative low—so much so that the banality of…

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Soldiers Tyrese Gibson (left) and Josh Duhamel search for robot ass to kick.
Transformers: Submit to Michael Bay’s Robot Love!
By Nathan Lee • July 3, 2007 12:00 am

Michael Bay completes his totalitarian assault on the average American filmgoer. Just like we asked him to.

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Maria Poroshina shines the light of hope?
Day Watch: Russian Sequel Doesn’t Blow Up Enough...
By Nathan Lee • June 19, 2007 12:00 am

Night Watch, you may recall, told of an ancient feud waged between the forces of Light and Dark. The hero,…

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Seasick: Rush (left) and Depp.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: 21...
By Nathan Lee • May 22, 2007 12:00 am

And so Disney’s immense, booty-busting, pro-piracy epic has come to an End. I doubt very much that Pirates 3 is,…

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But who will protect us from those protecting us from the undead?
28 Weeks Later: Zombies Run Amok Inside the...
By Nathan Lee • May 8, 2007 12:00 am

The story thus far: Seven months have gone by since the Rage virus passed from chimp fang to British bloodstream…

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