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Countdown to Zero: Old Fears, Badly Packaged
The title of Lucy Walker’s pro-nuclear-disarmament tract has two meanings: a paranoiac’s ticking down the last moments until…
Vadim Rizov
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Princess Kaiulani: Hawaii Without Surfing or Weed
Q’orianka Kilcher’s first role since her stunning breakout as Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’sThe New Worldfinds her playing to…
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Saint John of Las Vegas: No Dice, Steve Buscemi
“When I lived in Las Vegas, I had plenty of luck. The trouble is, most of it was…
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Five Minutes of Heaven: Liam Neeson Wrestles His Conscience to a Tie
Guy Hibbert’s novel-writing process for Five Minutes is an interesting experiment. In 1975, Ulsterite Alistair Little killed Catholic…
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Free Style: Motocross 101
Ostensibly, Free Style is one of those uplifting family movies built around a niche sport a la 1993’s…
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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell: Meet the Horrible Mr. Max
Tucker Max got famous through a Web site detailing how being an asshole to women constantly got him…
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Big Fan: Patton Oswalt Is Huge for the Giants
It takes considerable effort to make Darren Aronofsky seem like a model of restraint, but Robert Siegel pulls…
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Shrink: Kevin Spacey Self-Medicates
We know Kevin Spacey is one depressed psychiatrist because he doesn’t shave and he chain-smokes pot. (What Elliott…
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The Stoning of Soraya M: More Bad News From Iran
For those ambivalent about whether stoning women to death is a cruel punishment or not, here’s a dutifully…
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Skills Like This: From Denver, With Love
Monty Miranda’s Skills Like This boasts the arguable distinction of being the first film produced in Colorado to…
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Days and Clouds: More Problems From Italy
Elsa (Margherita Buy) and Michele (Antonio Albanese) have a problem: They’re a married couple in a middlebrow arthouse…
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Flow: We Must Protect Our Precious Planetary Fluids!
One of those charming little documentaries that make you question whether the human race is really worth preserving,…
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PICK Mister Foe: Sleeping With Your Stepmom Isnt Incest. Really
Young Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is convinced that his stepmother (Claire Forlani) accelerated her upward trajectory from Dad’s…
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PICK A Man Named Pearl: A gardener brings beauty to South Carolina
Feature-length elaborations on quirky, inspiring human-interest stories are generally to be avoided, but I’ll make an exception for…
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Priceless : Audrey Tautou Almost Steals Our Hearts
Priceless begins as standard, unconvincing, assembly-line French farce and ends as a cop-out, feel-good rom-com. In between, it…