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Letters to Juliet: Amanda Seyfried’s Voyage to Italy
Blonde, pillow-topped, and spineless, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has a secure fact-checking job and is engaged to Victor (Gael…
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The Secret of Kells: No Oscar, but an Animated Treat
Nominated for an Oscar, the animated Secret of Kells came out of nowhere—an enchantingly old-fashioned Irish upstart about…
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Robin Hood: Russell Crowe as the Angry Populist of Sherwood Forest
An old-fashioned adventure epic weighed down by overly simplistic, quasi-populist dialogue, Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood plays like a…
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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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Multiple Sarcasms: Timothy Hutton and Mira Sorvino Are Trapped in the 70s!
Anyone who tells you he’s got a great career, perfect marriage, and superior parenting skills does not. And…
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Breath Made Visible: Meet the Legendary Choreographer Anna Halprin
Bay Area choreographer Anna Halprin, who celebrates her 90th birthday in July, is a force of nature. Not…
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The Secret in Their Eyes: The Underwhelming Oscar Winner From Argentina
Say what you will, but the lead actors in Argentine director Juan Jose Campanella’s latest film do have…
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Babies: They’re Here. They’re Cute. They’ll Make You Ovulate
Did I say “Awww” at Babies? I did. Did I giggle at the adorable things babies do in…
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Paper Man: Jeff Daniels Is Taunted by Ryan Reynolds
An artist-in-crisis piece run through a drab but quirk-conscious indie processor, Paper Man is everything a film like…
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird: A Korean Travesty of Sergio Leone
The latest from popular Korean director Kim Ji-woon lands with a splat in the camp of decadent American…
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Iron Man 2: Robert Downey Jr. Must Choose Between Scarlett Johansson and Gwyneth Paltrow
As our movie begins, Tony Stark–mechanical genius, Forbes 400 perennial, the pop-star CEO of Stark Industries–has dropped any…
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No One Knows About Persian Cats: Rebel Musicians in Tehran
The great boundary-crosser of Iranian cinema, Bahman Ghobadi purposefully steps over the line with this quasi-documentary, highly unofficial…
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Fresh: Preaching to the Food-Fearing Choir
No die-hard foodie would, in their right mind, argue any of the points made in Ana Sofia Joanes’…
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Soundtrack for a Revolution: Rebel Musicians in the 60s
If you don’t already know the history of the American civil-rights movement (seriously?), of how everyday folks became…
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Furry Vengeance: Brendan Fraser, Eco-Propagandist
The simple thesis of the movie is very much made for the 6 to, oh, let’s say 6½-year-old…
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Mid-August Lunch: The Golden Girls, Italian Style
Watching this lauded but fatally slight comedy of manners about a middle-aged Italian who finds himself caring for…
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Teza: Ethiopia, Then and Now
Spanning two decades of his nation’s fraught history and invoking the legacy of at least three more, Haile…
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Oceans: James Bond Gets Cuddly With Nature
An almost miraculously photographed showcase of some of the seven seas’ least seen and most incredible specimens, Disney’s…
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The Losers: Zoe Saldana Takes Off Her Avatar Bodypaint
Writer Andy Diggle dedicated his snappy DC comic book The Losers to ’80s screenwriting superstar Shane Black, creator…
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Terribly Happy: Gloom and Crime in Denmark
After waving a gun around at home, young Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren) is shipped to the…