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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: The Animated Series Is Past Its Sell-By Date
Though hardly landmarks of narrative or animation art, the first two Ice Ages were warm and goofy and…
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Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone: Cmon, Dad, Give Me the Giant Battle-Bot!
It’s every 14-year-old boy’s dream: You get to command a giant, Transformers-style battle-bot against colossal enemy robots, while…
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PICK Captain Abu Raed: A Gentle Fable From Jordan
Abu Raed (Nadim Sawalha) is an elderly widower who works as a janitor at the international airport in…
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PICK Moon: A Sci-Fi Favorite From SIFF Returns to Local Orbit
Blame it on George Lucas, but sci-fi today usually means the space Western: interstellar chases, ray-gun shootouts, weird…
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Whatever Works: No, Woody, It Doesnt
Woody Allen’s first New York movie after five years abroad, Whatever Works is his first in even longer…
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Chéri: Michelle Pfeiffer Runs Afoul of French Literature
“For the first time in my life, I felt morally certain of having written a novel for which…
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PICK Munyurangabo: Drama in Rwanda, Made on Location
A heaviness—call it lived-in shellshock—hangs over the green Rwandan hills in Lee Isaac Chung’s serious-minded, immersive debut. Sangwa…
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Adoration: Atom Egoyan Is Still Smart, Confounding
Atom Egoyan’s 12th feature film offers a typically kaleidoscopic rumination on voyeurism, videography, the relative nature of truth,…
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PICK Nollywood Babylon: Filmmaking on the Streets of Lagos
Nigeria has, according to this brisk, low-to-the-ground documentary, the third-largest film industry in the world after the U.S.…
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My Sisters Keeper: Cameron Diaz, Meet Jodi Picoult
Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald’s parents didn’t just plan for her—they customized her in utero, with the specific end of…
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PICK Treeless Mountain: An American Indie Shot in South Korea
Kid performers naturally introduce elements of magic and mystery into the most banal situations. They are most resonant,…
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PICK Tulpan: A Minimalist Marvel From Kazakhstan
The first feature by Russian ethno-documentarian Sergei Dvortsevoy is a fiction founded on a powerful sense of place—and…
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PICK Tetro: Francis Ford Coppolas Imaginary Family History
As this baroque genealogical melodrama reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo fixes his pale gaze on young…
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The Merry Gentleman: Michael Keatons Not-Awful Try at Directing
Part of the likeable routine Michael Keaton brought to his roles in the ’80s was patter—sometimes manic, sometimes…
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PICK OHorten: An Endearing Oddball From Norway
The premise of this gentle existential farce from Norwegian director Bent Hamer is little more than an excuse…
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Food, Inc.: Michael Pollan Tells Us How to Eat
Didn’t Eric Schlosser already get his movie made? And along with Fast Food Nation, haven’t we already seen…
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PICK Easy Virtue: Jessica Biel Actually Charms Us
Quick! Noël Coward—sage or supercilious bitch? No matter where you stand, Stephan Elliott’s deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of…
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The Proposal: Sandra Bullock Gets Caught in the Rom-Com Grinder
Starring Sandra Bullock as the publishing-house boss who blackmails her assistant, played by Ryan Reynolds, into marrying her…
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The Last International Playboy: Peter Pan as Serial Dater
Starting like Girls Gone Wild and finishing more like Jay McInerney, this indie tale of a rake’s progress…
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Every Little Step: The Origins of A Chorus Line
In 1974, 18 years before MTV first assembled a group of comically mismatched 20-somethings and videotaped them being…