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Bachelorette: Kirsten Dunst and Her Cohort Make Naughty
In Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette, the bride’s wedding dress is in terrible danger, and you know it the second…
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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye: Just Another Transsexual Rock ‘n’ Roll Marriage
Marie Losier’s doc chronicles Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s recent career and second marriage,…
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present: Staring Back at the Museum Visitor
For three months in 2010, Serbian-born performance artist Marina Abramovic sat in a chair in a gallery at…
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The Inbetweeners: A Smarter British Version of American Pie
Teen Sex Comedies Without Borders could be an NGO, for there is something perversely hopeful in the way…
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The Ambassador: A Danish Stunt Film With a Political Agenda
It’s hard to imagine an experimental Danish documentary siphoning off too much Best Actor attention. But make no…
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2 Days in New York: Julie Delpy Pushes Toward Sitcomland
Julie Delpy’s sequel to her 2007 2 Days in Paris calls back many of the same characters and…
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Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee’s Latest Brooklyn Mess
Spike Lee returns to the Brooklyn of his most famous early works. There, a sustained single take—tracking his…
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David Koepp Is in a Rush
David Koepp writes, and now directs, superior B-movies. This is an admirable and tough-to-master skill given how few…
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Abendland: A Deadpan European Rebuttal to Samsara
A documentary composed of vignettes of Europe by night, shot as though through the eyes of some inquisitive,…
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Beloved: Catherine Deneuve Sings Across Time
Writer/director Christophe Honoré revisits the musical—the genre of his biggest stateside hit, Love Songs (2007)—in Beloved, a sprawling…
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Kumare: How a Nice Kid From Jersey Became a Fake Guru
Prepare to have your assumptions pitched out the window by this tense, surprisingly probing satirical documentary—not just about…
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Side by Side: Keanu Reeves Grills Martin Scorsese About the Future of Film
It’s a credit to Side by Side—an impressively thorough, expertly assembled survey of the debate surrounding the movie…
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Sleepwalk With Me: Comic Mike Birbiglia Adapts His Stage Show
Smart, funny stand-up comic Mike Birbiglia has already based a book and a touring show on his biographical…
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Lawless: Moonshine and Machine Guns
Screening the history of bootlegging in urban America led to the invention of a genre—the gangster film—but moviegoers…
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Action Movies Don’t Have to Suck, by Vern
The one-named Seattle critic known as Vern has this to say about The Expendables 2 and the state…
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Hit & Run: A Girl, a Car, and a Chase
A cheap, silly car-chase movie with a cute girl, Hit & Run wouldn’t stand out during the August…
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Iron Sky: Yes, There Are Nazis on the Moon
Nazis on the moon? What could possibly go wrong? The premise to this Finnish sci-fi spoof is golden:…
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Samsara: Lovely Images; Pity About the Movie
Whether it strikes you as a profound, perspective-shifting spiritual travelogue, or the cinematic equivalent of a forgettable New…
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Walk Away Renee: A Son’s Take on His Mom’s Mental Woes
Picking up where his 2004 Tarnation left off, Jonathan Caouette’s new documentary is no less hermetic, autobiographical, messy,…