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Blank City: Indie Film Before the Term Existed
Blank City is a self-defeating, user-friendly primer on a group of films whose aura was enhanced by the…
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The Devil’s Double: News Flash: Saddam Hussein’s Family Was Messed Up
The embellishment of a memoir by Latif Yahia, once forcibly employed as a public stand-in for Saddam Hussein’s…
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Trollhunter: Back From SIFF, a Deadpan Norwegian Monster Movie
Alleged to be compiled from found college-project footage from a group of missing students, Trollhunter begins as an…
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The Tree of Life: Brad Pitt Is Sean Penn’s Father!
Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas barbecue,…
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Submarine: A Cute Coming of Age in Wales
Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a rampant 15-year-old only child, has two presiding preoccupations, detailed in rapid voiceover throughout…
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Submarine: A Cute Coming of Age in Wales
Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a rampant 15-year-old only child, has two presiding preoccupations, detailed in rapid voiceover throughout…
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My Perestroika: Sadness in the Old CCCP
Eight-millimeter home movies and statist hymns from the Soviet past haunt Robin Hessman’s documentary of a contemporary Russia…
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13 Assassins: Chop. Slice. Repeat
Lord Naritsugu (Gorô Inagaki) is a royal terror, and the court fears Caligula-like horrors should he come into…
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Something Borrowed: Kate Hudson Becomes Ever More Tiresome
Based on a 2005 work of chick literature by Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed is a tale of love…
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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen: A Subpar Chopsocky Flick
Chen Zhen, a Chinese film folk hero whose vocation is bucking off the yoke of Japanese imperialism, has…
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Ceremony: We Must Stop Uma Thurman From Getting Married!
Sam (Michael Angarano), a young kids’-book author, suckers his neglected childhood best friend, Marshall (Reece Thompson), into driving…
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The Strange Case of Angelica: A Strange Fable of Longing
In 1952, Manoel de Oliveira sketched a fable of impossible longing that became, finally, The Strange Case of…
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The Conspirator: Robert Redford’s History Lesson
Set in the months after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Robert Redford’s dull history lesson follows the consequences of…
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Kill the Irishman: A Real-Life Crime Tale From Cleveland
With post-Goodfellas crime-movie tropes dyed for St. Patrick’s Day, this Ballad of Danny Greene attempts to enshrine the…
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Miral: Julian Schnabel Films His Girlfriends Life Story
A U.N. premiere! A Vanessa Redgrave cameo! Zionist hoodlums! While Jewish advocacy groups swarm to director Julian Schnabel’s…
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When We Leave: Immigrant Melodrama in Berlin
With her young son in tow, Umay (Head-On‘s Sibel Kekilli) walks out on her abusive husband and foregone…
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Your Highness: James Franco Plays It Straight
Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic, streaked…
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Insidious: The Haunting of Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne
There is a great deal of prowling motion in Insidious: a recurring sideways dolly outside a haunted house,…
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Take Me Home Tonight: We Heart the ’80s, Too! The Movie, Not So Much
Fresh out of MIT, Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) is back in hometown Los Angeles, waiting for his future…
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Hall Pass: The Farrelly Bros.’ Own Midlife Crisis
You will not forget the title, as it is repeated four-score times during the movie. Rick and Fred…