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Lagerfeld Confidential: Darlings, you are all very ugly and fat
Fashionista Karl Lagerfeld cultivated his iconic reputation working at a variety of established labels—moving from Chloé to Fendi…
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Chop Shop: Neorealism in New York
You come away from Chop Shop with a mood, the voluptuous sum of its fine-tuned parts: the way…
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Snow Angels: Somebody’s Out to Kill Kate Beckinsale!
An unusually blunt melodrama by David Gordon Green, melodious poet of such sentimental delicacies as George Washington and…
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The Duchess of Langeais: More of Jacques Rivettes Cinema Trickery
Having returned from Africa, “held prisoner by savages for two years before fleeing,” the Marquis de Montriveau…
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Diary of the Dead: Zombies Enter the YouTube Era
Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. “If you run that fast, your…
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Untraceable: Diane Lane Is a Cougar With a Gun!
Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First of all, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little…
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In Between Days: Behold the Bold, Beautiful, Melancholy Stasis of Life!
In Between Days is instantly compelling. Dwarfed inside a fur-rimmed parka, a young girl trumps through snow, her…
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My Kid Could Paint That: Most Adorable Art Fraud Ever!
An irresistible subject for a documentary: the charming celebrity of Marla Olmstead, an artist from upstate New York…
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The Darjeeling Limited: Wes Anderson Lets Go of His Baggage
The estranged brothers Whitman have reunited for a journey on board the Darjeeling Limited, a colorful old locomotive…
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This Is England: No Nostalgia for the Thatcher Era
Drawing on memories of a specific place and time—England in the early ’80s—writer-director Shane Meadows nails the look…
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Balls of Fury: Christopher Walken Turns Chinese!
1. Balls of Fury is a movie about: (a) A former table-tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona)…
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Bamako: Justice in Africa (If Only On-Screen)
Drawing equally from declamatory African traditions and European modernist procedures, Bamako stages a kind of Third World Epic…
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Lights in the Dusk: Enough, Aki, Enough!
Lights derives scant excitement from its melodramatic plot, which satisfies a dismal, ineluctable formula with stultifying efficiency. Nor…
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The Bourne Ultimatum: Matt Damon Is the AntiJack Bauer
In which our hero confronts his programmers in Langley. Bauer would not approve.
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Flanders: Bruno Dumont, WTF?
Not, alas, a biopic of the Simpsons’ god-fearing neighbor. The latest from philosophy-professor-turned-cineaste Bruno Dumont marks a return…
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Sunshine: Not Quite Trainspotting in Space
It is the year 2057. Approximately 5 billion years ahead of schedule, the sun is beginning to die.…
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Talk to Me: Again Don Cheadle Outshines His Material
Having ascended to genre supremacy, the biopic has long since reached its imaginative low—so much so that the…
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Transformers: Submit to Michael Bay’s Robot Love!
Michael Bay completes his totalitarian assault on the average American filmgoer. Just like we asked him to.