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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never: The Hair! The Tweets! The Brand!
This Bieber movie, a concert experience and origin-myth documentary, is not good—not that it needs to be. It…
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The Taqwacores: Muslim Punks Are Just as Annoying as They Sound
There are all the elements of a terrific spoof in The Taqwacores, which follows a year in the…
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The Rite: Anthony Hopkins as Prancing Exorcist
The latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic…
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Little Fockers: Ben Stiller, Stop! No More Fockers, Please
For the third time, Robert De Niro questions Ben Stiller's manhood.
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All Good Things: Ryan Gosling Is Pressured Into Murder
The fiction feature debut of Andrew Jarecki, director of the 2003 documentary Capturing the Friedmans, All Good Things…
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: More Adventures in C.S. Lewis Land
This third adaptation from C.S. Lewis’ seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia comes underwritten by a new studio and with…
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The Portuguese Nun: Enchantment in Lisbon
A French actress, Julie (Leonor Baldaque), arrives in Lisbon to shoot a 17th-century costume drama. She’ll star in…
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Vision: Feminism in the Dark Ages?
The fifth collaboration of director Margarethe von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa, Vision continues the proto-feminist canonization of…
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Fair Game: Sean Penn, Even More Self-Righteous Than Before
Adapted from Valerie Plame and Joseph C. Wilson’s memoirs, the unsurprisingly validating Fair Game begins as a timeline-hopping…
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Let Me In: Not Bad, but Not So Good as the Original
Modish blankness tries to pass for clarity in Let Me In, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves’ Americanized remake of…
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: Gordon Gekko Repents–or Does He?
Oliver Stone’s sequel doesn’t have the clean, fable-like arc of its predecessor, Wall Street, the tale of the…
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The Town: Ben Affleck Robs Banks
Directing himself as a verifiable big-movie lead after some time in supporting-actor Triple-A ball, Ben Affleck models a…
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A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop: The Coen Brothers in Chinese
Following his Beijing Olympics opening-ceremony mega-production, Zhang Yimou remakes the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple by dressing it in…
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The Last Exorcism: A Surprisingly Smart Fright Flick
With a small, well-chosen cast, a sly script, and slippery, ambivalent characters, The Last Exorcism gives a welcome…
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Two in the Wave: JLG vs. Truffaut
An anniversary present for the French New Wave, this doc gives the gift of received wisdom as it…
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Inception: Leo Di Caprio Gets Caught in Chris Nolans Dreams
Inception is a chilling trip into the psyche…of writer/director Christopher Nolan, an Anglo-American action director who shattered the…
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The Karate Kid: Jackie Chan Remakes the 80s Demi-Classic
Like the 1984 original, this new Kid begins with an uprooting. Young Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his…
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Splice: Adrien Brody, This Is All Your Oscar Gets You?
Though Sundance-screened and sporting an upscale cast, Vincenzo Natali’s Splice has a mad-science quality. Adrien Brody and Sarah…
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Survival of the Dead: Or, How to Kill an Undead Franchise
The sixth installment in George A. Romero’s long-running horror serial (est. 1967), follows Sarge Crockett (Alan Van Sprang)…
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Zombies at SIFF: Survival of the Dead
The sixth installment in George A. Romero’s long-running horror serial (est. 1967), follows Sarge Crockett (Alan Van Sprang)…