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Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Ben Affleck stars in roid rage PSA!
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The Promotion: Seann William Scott in a prole battle with John C. Reilly
Making his directorial debut, screenwriter Steven Conrad (who previously wrote The Weather Man and The Pursuit of Happyness)…
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Bra Boys: Russell Crowe is threatening a remake
Russell Crowe narrates—and is reportedly developing a dramatic remake of—this compact history of Australia’s notorious Maroubra Beach community,…
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Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr. Makes a Comic Book Movie We Actually Like
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I’ve always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by…
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Love Songs: French Musical Leaves Us Cold
If the great movie musicals of yesteryear put a song in your heart, Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs leaves…
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The Visitor : More Liberal Guilt
The Station Agent‘s writer/director, Tom McCarthy, follows up that surprise success with another self-consciously whimsical tale of an…
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Body of War: Yes, You Should Still Care About the Iraq War
Co-directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue—yes, that Phil Donahue, who will do a Q&A following the 7…
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Young @ Heart : Is Kirk Douglas Available for the Remake?
From the washed-out images to the twee voice-over (courtesy of director Stephen Walker), this British television documentary about…
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Leatherheads: George Clooney Makes Like Preston Sturges
On-screen and off, George Clooney is like a holdover from a time—which, admittedly, may only have ever existed…
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The Bands Visit: Peace in the Middle East (If Only on Film)
The Band’s Visit made headlines last fall after being disqualified as Israel’s foreign-language submission to the 2008 Academy…
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Vantage Point: Even Matthew Fox Cannot Save the POTUS
Remember the 1985 movie version of the Parker Brothers whodunit board game Clue, with its pre-DVD-era gimmick of…
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Fools Gold: Again, Matthew McConaughey Takes Off His Shirt
Is Fool’s Gold really a new movie, or just some infernal clip reel cut together from that…
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Grace Is Gone: John Cusacks Bad Hair Signifies Sincerity
A year after winning the screenplay and audience awards at Sundance 2007, writer-director James C. Strouse’s Grace Is…
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Cloverfield: The Blair Witch Monster
Manhattan is under attack! Wheres Will Smith to save us from shaky cameras, blathering YouTube actors, and cheap…
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Cassandras Dream: Woodys Latest Is DOA.
“I do think the writing is pessimistic—all that stuff about life being a tragic experience,” says Angela Stark…
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Murderers’ Melody
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Sondheim Plus Blood Equals Excellence
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Julian Schnabels Arty Overload
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the American painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won…
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I Am Legend: Will Smith Versus the Mutants
There are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is by the movie’s…
Arts & Culture
Fontainhas Comes to Cap Hill
Meet Pedro Costa, the Portuguese master of maximalist minimalism.
