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Heartbeats: Drunk on Beauty in Quebec
The second feature from 21-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan is an Instagram of the Way We Fuck Now—or, more…
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Limitless: Bradley Cooper Fails to Wake Up Robert De Niro
A gleeful celebration of nonstop doping, Limitless offers a dim Better Living Through Chemistry fantasy that refuses to…
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Jane Eyre: Bronte’s Classic Is Filmed Afresh
Director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) fragments Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, introducing us to Jane (Mia Wasikowska) as a…
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Poetry: Beautiful Senior Moments in South Korea
As in his equally exceptional previous film, Secret Sunshine (2007), Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry is a perfectly paced and…
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The Last Lions: You Cannot Resist the Cute Lion Cubs
As aficionados of Puppy Bowl can attest, attaching stories to the comings and goings of animals is surefire…
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Vanishing on 7th St.: Is This the Rapture or What?
One night an electrical blackout rolls across Detroit, and when the sun comes up, the city’s population has…
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Cold Weather: Mumble-Noir in Portland
Aaron Katz’s Portland-set junior detective mystery stakes a claim as the founding work of mumble-noir. The 29-year-old director’s…
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Dogtooth: Human Guinea Pigs in Greece
This 2009 Cannes winner is hyperrealist sci-fi detailing an (anti)social experiment gone awry. The matriarch and patriarch of…
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Elektra Luxx: Carla Gugino as a Porn Star Gone Legit
Still on track to be the George Cukor of the stroke-movie set, Sebastian Gutierrez follows up 2009’s Women…
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Take Me Home Tonight: We Heart the ’80s, Too! The Movie, Not So Much
Fresh out of MIT, Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) is back in hometown Los Angeles, waiting for his future…
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Queen of the Sun: Why Are All the Bees Dying?
Isn’t it about time we gave Michael Pollan his own food-and-health TV channel? Seriously, he’s in every food…
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Bhutto: The Pakistani Politician’s Tragic Life and Death
Despite the bio-doc implication of its title, Bhutto is not just a portrait of the late Benazir Bhutto,…
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Zenith: Brooklyn as Sci-Fi Wasteland
“The film they don’t want you to see,” by “Anonymous,” shouts the teaser, prefaced by warnings of legal…
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Even the Rain: The Legacy of Columbus Gets Lost in Bolivia
Akin to Truffaut’s Day for Night as reimagined by Howard Zinn (to whom it’s dedicated), Even the Rain…
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The Adjustment Bureau: Matt Damon Versus the Brain-Erasers
In Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi’s directorial debut, Matt Damon plays David Norris, a congressman rocketing to the…
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Carbon Nation: Walk, Don’t Drive, to See This Movie
Built more like an education module than a documentary, Carbon Nation might make you nostalgic for those blissful…
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Kaboom: Scooby-Doo With Sex, Drugs, and Tattooed Hotties
As spacey as its title suggests, Gregg Araki’s latest youth film is an occult mystery set in the…
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Nuremberg: A 65-Year-Old Film Finally Sees the Light of Day
Delivering the news in the late 1940s that Universal Pictures would not release Stuart Schulberg’s documentary about the…
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Hall Pass: The Farrelly Bros.’ Own Midlife Crisis
You will not forget the title, as it is repeated four-score times during the movie. Rick and Fred…
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I Am: The Year’s Best-Funded New Age Vanity Doc
If you’re going to see one New Age vanity documentary this year, it might as well be the…