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Coco Before Chanel: Audrey Tautou Puts Career Before Love
Anne Fontaine’s biopic gives us Belle-Époque Coco, opening in 1893 with a grim scene of the 10-year-old waif…
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Black Dynamite: Like Shaft Played for Laughs
Thoroughly silly and enjoyable for film geeks who know the old ’70s blaxploitation canon, Black Dynamite suffers from…
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Where the Wild Things Are: Not Terrible, But in Need of Some Terror
Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children’s picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things…
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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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PICK Still Walking: A Japanese Favorite Returns From SIFF
What’s remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s seventh feature film, is that the familiar comes across…
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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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A Serious Man: The Coen Brothers Loathsome Latest
The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen’s new movie—a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old…
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Capitalism: A Love Story: Michael Moore Beats His Shtick to Death
Less a movie than a traveling circus, this scattershot, lazy slice of agitprop recycles Moore’s usual slice-and-dice job…
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The September Issue: An Infomercial for Vogue
When earlier this decade I worked as a freelancer for a publication two floors below Vogue, each sighting…
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The Invention of Lying: Nice Try, Ricky Gervais
The plot hook here sounds like a pileup of Jim Carrey–Tom Shadyac concept comedies. Ricky Gervais’ fuzzy parable…
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Pick Zombieland: Good Zombie-Killin Fun
At last—a zombie movie vegans can endorse. This new plague was caused by mad cow disease, we’re told…
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The Boys Are Back: Clive Owen Learns to Cook and Nurture
In the Oscar derby for Best Actor, is it better to die or to grieve? Clive Owen opts…
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Pick Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg: The Yiddish Ghost of Radio and TV
Did you know that goy god Steve McQueen got an early walk-on on a Jewish television sitcom? That’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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PICK No Impact Man: Whats the Big To-Do About Doing With Less?
Making the rounds on talk shows (Stephen Colbert, NPR, Good Morning America, etc.), author Colin Beavan soon recognizes…
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Loren Cass: Like a Teenage Bukowski in Florida
Chris Fuller’s powerfully unsettling debut—written in 1997 when the director was just 15—is a starkly lyrical portrait of…
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Paris: Juliette Binoche Co-Stars With the Eiffel Tower
Paris, as overdocumented as any great city, still has new facets to reflect. For proof, see Claire Denis’…
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Amreeka: Palestinians Find No Welcome in the U.S.
Another heartbreaking drama about Arabs and their mistreatment in the United States. Palestinians Muna (Nisreen Faour) and teen…
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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…