Film
Into the waves
Memory washes a widow between present and past.
Film
Good News From Up North
The Toronto Film Festival had choice pickings this month. Now if only SIFF can cherry-pick its prize titles…
Film
Men of a certain age
Robert Redford still wants to be a star, but Warren Beatty doesn't care anymore.
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Two From the Heart
How one lonely critic failed to save a film 22 years ago, and how Francis Ford Coppola came…
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She’s come undone
The haves and the have-nots have at it in Terence Davies' adaptation of Edith Wharton's masterpiece.
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Like Austen in L.A.
Absent a marriage plot, or any real plot, Nicole Holofcener dissects the manners of matrons and maids.
Music
Bad Specimens
In a clinical study of human misbehavior, Frances McDormand stands far above the other subjects of Laurel Canyon.
Film
Lilya 4-Ever: Little Girl Lost
Escaping the hopeless East, Lilya finds even less hope in the West.
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Publish and Perish
The writer will do anything to get his book. The film shows at what a profound moral cost.
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Flyover Gothic
In a middle-American odyssey, Jack poignantly captures his character's crumpled humanity. Too bad everyone else is a cartoon.