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PICK Duplicity: Julia Roberts and Clive Owen Bring Their A-Game
It’s little surprise that for his second film as director, Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy leans heavily on…
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Crossing Over: Harrison Ford Stars in Raiders of the Lost Immigrants
Haven’t we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer-director Wayne Kramer’s Crossing Over…
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The International: Clive Owen and Naomi Watts Fail Math 101
Tom Tykwer’s The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned…
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PICK Revolutionary Road: Marital Advice From Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
There’s a wonderfully perverse irony in the fact that the film version of Richard Yates’ first and most…
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Brad Pitt Goes Forrest Gump
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious—a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born…
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PICK Gran Torino: Clint Eastwood Learns a Lesson
Walt Kowalski growls a lot–a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches…
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Seven Pounds: Will Smith Demands Lump in Your Throat
Two years ago, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, which starred Smith…
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Slumdog Millionaire: Like Charles Dickens in Mumbai
Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, who wouldn’t in this economy, even if the currency in question…
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PICK Synecdoche, New York: Inside Charlie Kaufman
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich’s medulla oblongata and walked through the adjoining door of the…
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Miracle at St. Anna: Spike Lee Goes Long in WWII
You’ve got to hand it to Spike Lee for managing to secure the financing for this big-budget, three-hour…
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Lakeview Terrace: Samuel L. Jackson Hates His Neighbors
Set in the titular suburb in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley (where Rodney King was assaulted by police…
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PICK In Search of a Midnight Kiss: Refined Romance in L.A.
Did Los Angeles sign with a new agent? Heretofore best known for its performances as urban jungle, moneyed…
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PICK Transsiberian: Ben Kingsley and Woody Harrelson are stuck on the same train
Up until a couple of weeks ago, this nifty thriller from director Brad Anderson (The Machinist) seemed about…
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Scarlett Johansson gets sexed up in Spain
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen’s 39th film as writer-director, will…
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Kenny: Meet a comic from Down Underdown under your septic tank
Australian comic Shane Jacobson, who has the body of a lumberjack and the sweetly innocent face of a…
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Swing Vote: Kevin Costner fixes our busted democracy
Swing Vote is about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as…
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Step Brothers: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly refuse to grow up
Writer-director Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights) and his muse, writer-star Will Ferrell, reteam for another round of absurdist…
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The Dark Knight: Christian Bale suits up against Heath Ledger
What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan’s Gotham City–if “pleasure” is the right word…
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PICK Up the Yangtze: Progress has its way with the hapless peasants of China
“It’s hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult,” says one…
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Frownland: Life in Brooklyneven more fraught than on Capitol Hill
Bringing us much too close for comfort to a stuttering, snot-nosed 20-something Brooklynite named Keith (played with freakish…