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Lovely Molly: Spooky House, Not Enough Horror
The “name” connected to Lovely Molly is that of director Eduardo Sánchez, one of the perpetrators of 1999’s…
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The Dark Knight Rises: Too Dark, Too Much, Too Long
Though a shallow repository of ideas, considered as a work of sheer sensation, Dark Knight Rises has something…
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Elena: Life Is Still Grim in the Old Soviet Union
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Elena is a tale of two apartments: a spacious chrome, glass, and marble luxury flat that…
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The Color Wheel: Worst Road Trip Ever?
Alex Ross Perry’s second feature, shot in 16mm black-and-white, is an offhand-picturesque road-trip movie with a mock-epic Northeastern…
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The Beat Hotel: Enough With the Bohemians, Please!
I have seen many passable minds of my generation fritter away their best creative years working on tributes…
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God Bless America: Bobcat Goldthwait’s Violent Misfire of a Satire
In one week, Frank (Joel Murray), a divorced, 50ish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker, loses his job, becomes completely…
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Rock of Ages: Tom Cruise Goes Back to the Hair-Metal ’80s
In this star-clogged pop-musical diversion (based on a jukebox musical built around an afternoon of VH1 Classics’ worth…
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Prometheus: Not Quite Alien, Not Quite 2001
Prone to shallow ponderousness, Prometheus assumes the air of a blockbuster-with-brains that links the genesis and ultimate fate…
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The Day He Arrives: Hitting the Bottle in South Korea
The prolific Hong Sang-soo’s 12th film begins with Sungjoon (Yu Jun-sang), a former film director now retired to…
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Bernie: Jack Black in a True-Life Texas Crime Story
The script for Bernie was in part dictated from the stand: In a 1997 murder trial in Carthage,…
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Mansome: Morgan Spurlock’s Shallow Grooming Doc
“I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don’t really know it.” So says “biological…
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Battleship: Liam Neeson Versus the Aliens
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that’s so utterly shameless, it achieves a certain grandeur.…
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Brits out of Water
The British have practically cornered the multiplex’s senior demo (think Waking Ned Devine and Calendar Girls) and look…
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Michael: Pedophilia Only Implied, Not Shown
Michael (Michael Fuith) is a 30-something unmarried insurance agent who, by necessity, meticulously keeps up domestic ritual. Michael,…
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Dark Shadows: Johnny Depp in a Non-Pirate Role for Once
Dark Shadows slips the “Tim Burton treatment” to the supernaturally themed daytime soap of the same name, which…
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The Deep Blue Sea: Rachel Weisz Sleeps Around
The first fiction feature in a dozen years from visionary British director Terence Davies is a film about…
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The Salt of Life: How to Age With Dignity
As in his directorial debut, Mid-August Lunch, Gianni Di Gregorio stars in this quiet comedy—this time as Giovanni,…
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American Reunion: Will the ’90s Never End?
This latest episode in the ongoing American Pie saga, handled by the Harold & Kumar writer/director team of…
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Kati With an I: Teen Ennui in Florida
Documentarian Robert Greene chaperones 18-year-old Kati Genthner through the three days before her graduation (with honors) from Pleasant…
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Casa de Mi Padre: Will Ferrell Mugs in Spanish
Rogue comic Will Ferrell recently turned up in an Old Milwaukee commercial exclusively for the Davenport, Iowa, local…