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Goodall in Tanzania during the '60s.

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Jane’s Journey: A Mash Note to the Famed Primatologist

Spectacularly photographed and journalistically lame, Jane’s Journey blows a 107-minute kiss to Dr. Jane Goodall, the 70-something primatologist-turned-conservationist.…

A love story between two guys and a car.

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Bellflower: A Very Handmade Indie

Dutifully hipster-hyped at Sundance and South by Southwest, writer/director/actor Evan Glodell’s testosterone-fueled, fever-dream indie impresses less for its…

Weisz patrols a lonely beat.

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The Whistleblower: Rachel Weisz Versus the Sex Traffickers

In Canadian director Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower, shot in Romania, British babe Rachel Weisz plays a poor Nebraska…

Professor Terrace with two of his conquests: Nim and grad student Stephanie Lafarge.

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Project Nim: A Chimp Tragedy

Not every member of Homo sapiens who sees Project Nim will be moved to pledge membership in PETA.…

Ramírez as the hero of his own life-as-movie.

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Carlos: Five Hours of International Terrorism in a Single Weekend

Justly feted at Cannes, named for the globetrotting Venezuelan “revolutionary”-turned-killer capitalist also known as “the Jackal,” Carlos is…

Manuela Velasco passes inspection.

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[REC] 2: A Spanish Zombie Retread

The de facto highlight of the horrific [REC] 2—the 28-minutes-later sequel to the Spanish zombie flick Americanized as…

Li gets lost in the historical shuffle.

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The Warlords: Swords and Arrows Fly in 19th–Century China

No less a man than Jet Li cries multiple times in this impressively gargantuan Chinese battle epic. A…

Mezzogiorno falls for a fascist.

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Vincere: Surprise! Mussolini Was a Bully in the Bedroom

According to Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere, Mussolini was nearly as much of a bully in the bedroom as he…

Cruz in Hepburn mode.

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Broken Embraces: Labyrinth of Celluloid

Pedro Almodóvar’s latest comedy delves ever deeper into movies.

Steidle with the refugees of Darfur.

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The Devil Came on Horseback: Darfur, Still on Our Conscience

The crisis in Darfur—the slaughter of 400,000 black African citizens by the Arab-led Sudanese government and its Janjaweed…

The Decider in Chief.

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No End in Sight: Or, Military Quagmires 101

Never mind the latest troop surge. The latest Iraq war doc damningly indicts its original architects.

Hot for zombie? Moss as protective mother.

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Fido: Zombies Deprived of Necessary Political Subtext

You think they’re dead, these zombie-film parodies, but one after another, they keep lumbering back. Not much brain…

Willis (left) old-schools Long.

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Live Free or Die Hard: Bruce Willis Clings Manfully to the Timex Past

Willis rejects digital reboot in favor of rusty action-flick mechanics.

Atsuko Chiba travels deep into her own cranium.

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Paprika: Loopy Anime Reaches Into Your Head

Based on a serialized novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, this loopy anime from director Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress) isn’t…

Bug: Friedkin's Back From the (Almost) Dead With Off-Broadway Adaptation

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Bug: Friedkin’s Back From the (Almost) Dead With Off-Broadway Adaptation

Made on the cheap for the horror-loving kids at Lionsgate, this freaky-deaky psycho-thriller from New Hollywood survivor William…

Compassion without condescension: Shannon and her beloved.

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Year of the Dog

Compulsive dog rescuer Molly Shannon attains a nutty kind of grace.

Anything but festive: Knudsen and Mikkelsen.

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After the Wedding

Danish Oscar nominee offers intense psychological discomfort.

Random Glastonbury star Thom Yourke of Radiohead.

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Glastonbury

Concert doc fails to make sense of sprawling English music fest.

Wilder the beachcomber.

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The Last Mimzy

Look what the tide dragged in.

Justin Timberlake helps get Ricci back.

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Black Snake Moan

Christina Ricci gets skinny and slutty so Samuel L. Jackson can play the blues.