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    Articles by Vadim Rizov
    The old controls of a nuclear silo.
    Countdown to Zero: Old Fears, Badly Packaged
    By Vadim Rizov • July 27, 2010 12:00 am

    The title of Lucy Walker’s pro-nuclear-disarmament tract has two meanings: a paranoiac’s ticking down the last moments until the bomb…

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    Kilcher has become Hollywood’s go-to girl for pre-colonial bliss.
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    Buscemi confronts his mediocrity.
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    “When I lived in Las Vegas, I had plenty of luck. The trouble is, most of it was bad.” So…

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    By Vadim Rizov • October 13, 2009 12:00 am

    Guy Hibbert’s novel-writing process for Five Minutes is an interesting experiment. In 1975, Ulsterite Alistair Little killed Catholic Joe Griffen’s…

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    Bleu: better than he (or the movie) needs to be.
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    Ostensibly, Free Style is one of those uplifting family movies built around a niche sport a la 1993’s rollerblading cash-in…

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    Be offended by the book, be offended by the movie.
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    By Vadim Rizov • September 22, 2009 12:00 am

    Tucker Max got famous through a Web site detailing how being an asshole to women constantly got him laid, making…

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    Oswalt (left) lets the game get away from him.
    Big Fan: Patton Oswalt Is Huge for the...
    By Vadim Rizov • September 15, 2009 12:00 am

    It takes considerable effort to make Darren Aronofsky seem like a model of restraint, but Robert Siegel pulls it off…

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    The doctor is sort of in, sort of out.
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    By Vadim Rizov • July 29, 2009 12:00 am

    We know Kevin Spacey is one depressed psychiatrist because he doesn’t shave and he chain-smokes pot. (What Elliott Gould did…

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    Aghdashloo narrates the misery.
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    By Vadim Rizov • July 14, 2009 12:00 am

    For those ambivalent about whether stoning women to death is a cruel punishment or not, here’s a dutifully plodding if…

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    Whimsy at gunpoint.
    Skills Like This: From Denver, With Love
    By Vadim Rizov • March 31, 2009 12:00 am

    Monty Miranda’s Skills Like This boasts the arguable distinction of being the first film produced in Colorado to be picked…

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    Buy (at center) wants more.
    Days and Clouds: More Problems From Italy
    By Vadim Rizov • November 18, 2008 12:00 am

    Elsa (Margherita Buy) and Michele (Antonio Albanese) have a problem: They’re a married couple in a middlebrow arthouse movie. When…

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    Director Salina is all about the wet stuff
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    By Vadim Rizov • November 4, 2008 12:00 am

    One of those charming little documentaries that make you question whether the human race is really worth preserving, Irena Salina’s…

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    Wicked (hot) stepmom Forlani.
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    By Vadim Rizov • September 16, 2008 12:00 am

    Young Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is convinced that his stepmother (Claire Forlani) accelerated her upward trajectory from Dad’s secretary to…

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    Fryar early in his topiary career.
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    By Vadim Rizov • July 29, 2008 12:00 am

    Feature-length elaborations on quirky, inspiring human-interest stories are generally to be avoided, but I’ll make an exception for A Man…

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    Name your Price: Elmaleh and Tautou.
    Priceless : Audrey Tautou Almost Steals Our Hearts
    By Vadim Rizov • April 15, 2008 12:00 am

    Priceless begins as standard, unconvincing, assembly-line French farce and ends as a cop-out, feel-good rom-com. In between, it develops into…

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