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Comedian Sandler stars in a film about comedians. Funny, right?
Funny People: Apatow and Sandler Confront Middle Age
By Scott Foundas • July 29, 2009 12:00 am

After canvassing the getting of manly wisdom in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and childbirth in Knocked Up, Judd Apatow brings the…

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Bourgoin (with Zem) creates her own weather.
The Girl From Monaco: Crime and Farce in...
By Scott Foundas • July 21, 2009 12:00 am

There’s not much to this thin, sun-drenched concoction about a straight-arrow Paris lawyer (Fabrice Luchini) who descends on the titular…

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Radcliffe, with Watson at right, looks ever more the adult.
PICK Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Six...
By Scott Foundas • July 14, 2009 12:00 am

Don’t let the PG rating fool you: The dark arts are back with a vengeance in Harry Potter and the…

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Asano tries to help the fractured family.
PICK Kabei: Our Mother: Family Drama From Japan
By Scott Foundas • July 7, 2009 12:00 am

An unpretentious and old-fashioned (that is, crisply legible) domestic drama, Kabei shows how Rising Sun Japan’s sense of national destiny…

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Rachel Blanchard and Noam Jenkins are among Egoyan’s cryptic figures.
Adoration: Atom Egoyan Is Still Smart, Confounding
By Scott Foundas • June 23, 2009 12:00 am

Atom Egoyan’s 12th feature film offers a typically kaleidoscopic rumination on voyeurism, videography, the relative nature of truth, and the…

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Owe runs off the rails.
PICK O’Horten: An Endearing Oddball From Norway
By Scott Foundas • June 16, 2009 12:00 am

The premise of this gentle existential farce from Norwegian director Bent Hamer is little more than an excuse for a…

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Cute can’t save Krasinski and Rudolph.
Away We Go: Dave Eggers’ Movie Not a...
By Scott Foundas • June 9, 2009 12:00 am

The first original screenplay by hipster lit-world phenom Dave Eggers is, much like his 2001 memoir A Heartbreaking Work of…

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Vardalos: Good for the Greeks?
My Life in Ruins: Why Does Nia Vardalos...
By Scott Foundas • June 2, 2009 12:00 am

Substitute “career” for “life” in the title of this stillborn travelogue comedy, and you’ll have a succinct verdict on My…

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Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey is happier out of office.
PICK Outrage: Gays in the Republican Closet? We’re...
By Scott Foundas • May 12, 2009 12:00 am

Director Kirby Dick doesn’t actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in this new documentary, but his…

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The ex-champ shows his sedate side.
PICK Tyson: Iron Mike Shows He’s Human.
By Scott Foundas • May 12, 2009 12:00 am

Director James Toback’s documentary about former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson isn’t a traditional nonfiction portrait so much as a…

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Baldwin tries to hold his family together.
Lymelife: Alec Baldwin Travels Back to the 1970s
By Scott Foundas • May 5, 2009 12:00 am

There’s nothing new under the suburban sun (save for infectious ticks) in Derick Martini’s Lymelife, whose weighty allegorical title and…

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Chen confronts a changing China.
24 City: China Can’t Keep Pace With Its...
By Scott Foundas • May 5, 2009 12:00 am

Further confirmation of China’s Jia Zhangke as the planet’s most excitingly original filmmaker, this latest message-in-a-bottle from the front lines…

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Supply your own locker-room jokes about Efron.
17 Again: Zac Efron Goes Cougar Hunting
By Scott Foundas • April 14, 2009 12:00 am

The fact that chaste, metrosexual teen idol Zac Efron has been allowed to grow a phallus for his latest role—a…

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Flores travels toward a different life.
Sin Nombre: Bad News From Honduras
By Scott Foundas • April 7, 2009 12:00 am

Before setting pen to paper, Sin Nombre writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga purportedly rode the rails in the company of real…

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Ward and Wakefield get close.
PICK The Black Balloon: Fresh Tidings From Oz
By Scott Foundas • March 31, 2009 12:00 am

Produced for what was likely a day’s Botox budget on Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, this auspicious Oz import—the debut feature of…

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Stewart provides a summer surprise for Eisenberg.
PICK Adventureland: The ’80s Rule!
By Scott Foundas • March 31, 2009 12:00 am

Drawn from Superbad director Greg Mottola’s own experiences working at a ramshackle suburban amusement park in the 1980s, Adventureland feels…

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Kagawa confronts the new economy.
PICK Tokyo Sonata: The Economy Sucks in Japan,...
By Scott Foundas • March 24, 2009 12:00 am

Like a bottled message cast from the shores of an economy whose implosion precipitated our own, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata…

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Roberts and Owen are fluent in half-truths.
PICK Duplicity: Julia Roberts and Clive Owen Bring...
By Scott Foundas • March 17, 2009 12:00 am

It’s little surprise that for his second film as director, Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy leans heavily on his favored…

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Indiana Jones meets Crash.
Crossing Over: Harrison Ford Stars in Raiders of...
By Scott Foundas • March 10, 2009 12:00 am

Haven’t we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer-director Wayne Kramer’s Crossing Over treats the…

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“Don’t worry, Clive; they’re paying us in gold bullion.”
The International: Clive Owen and Naomi Watts Fail...
By Scott Foundas • February 10, 2009 12:00 am

Tom Tykwer’s The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned buildings, and…

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