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McConaughey as the Lizard Prince?

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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: Matthew McConaughey Continues His Buff Reign of Terror Over American Cinema

Two weeks after jowly Matthew Perry transformed into pretty Zac Efron to relive his adolescence in 17 Again,…

Krisch and Strauss both have their secrets.

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PICK Revanche: Crime and Self-Punishment in Austria

This deliberate, meticulous heist-gone-wrong flick eschews all the usual excitement of crime (no spoilers as to what goes…

Zizek explains our trash culture.

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PICK Examined Life: Surprise! Philosophy Isn’t Boring

Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor’s engaging new philoso-doc; the viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and occasionally…

New-school fadista Mariza.

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Fados: Gorgeous Songs From Portugal

The fado is a dolorous folksong tradition from Portugal, first sung in the early 19th century by barefoot…

Aww! Who are your favorite Earth bears?

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Earth: We Demand More Ducklings!

A big-screen, family-friendly (well, friendlier) version of the enthralling BBC/Discovery series Planet Earth, Earth follows three animal families—polar…

Perez Soto struggles to adjust.

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PICK Sugar: The Half Nelson Team Takes on Baseball

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the most clichéd genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb…

Mouret packs one love story inside another.

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Shall We Kiss?: The Problems of the French

If they’re French, even dweebs get to lounge around tastefully beige Paris interiors clutching long-stemmed glasses of merlot…

Downey Jr. makes journalists look good.

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The Soloist: Jamie Foxx Battles With Inferior Script

An old-fashioned tale for a newfangled world, Joe Wright’s overwrought drama turns on a series of columns begun…

Hey, gang, let’s put on a show!

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Paris 36: For Francophone Accordion Lovers Only

Assault by relentless accordion-playing, Paris 36 proves that sometimes imitation is the highest form of flatulence. Christophe Barratier…

Sarsgaard, Miller, and Foster in their enchanted decade.

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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Reread the Michael Chabon Novel Instead

Michael Chabon’s 1988 breakthrough novel attracted many fans among the young, sensitive, Foucault-reading, Germs-listening set who were dissatisfied…

Kudlow (on guitar) hasn’t forgotten how to rock.

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[PICK]Anvil! The Story of Anvil: The ’80s Are Back, Baby!

Even though Anvil, a four-piece speed-metal circus that once toured with soon-to-be cash-cow longhairs like Whitesnake and Bon…

Supply your own locker-room jokes about Efron.

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17 Again: Zac Efron Goes Cougar Hunting

The fact that chaste, metrosexual teen idol Zac Efron has been allowed to grow a phallus for his…

Happy couple Mauff and Maléřová.

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PICK Absurdistan: A Nonstop Charm Machine

A droll comic fable about a water shortage, a battle of the sexes, and the teenage lovers caught…

Faris deserves better.

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Observe and Report: Seth Rogen Makes Us Uncomfortable

Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) is the bipolar mall cop who roams the craptacular Forest Ridge Mall like a…

McQueen (left) directs Fassbender.

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PICK Hunger: Starvation as Art

Established artists who’ve made mid-career leaps from gallery to movie house have not easily found their footing. But…

Flores travels toward a different life.

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Sin Nombre: Bad News From Honduras

Before setting pen to paper, Sin Nombre writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga purportedly rode the rails in the company…

McCormack has his body borrowed.

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Alien Trespass: Sci-Fi Revival Without Cause

Making fun of old movies is a reliable and occasionally trenchant source of laughs—either from the sidelines, as…

Ward and Wakefield get close.

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PICK The Black Balloon: Fresh Tidings From Oz

Produced for what was likely a day’s Botox budget on Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, this auspicious Oz import—the debut…

Sarafian gives Delnaet a closer look.

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PICK Moscow, Belgium: Kitchen-Sink Romance

We’re not talking Dardennes here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably…

Denis Lavant runs amok in Bong’s segment.

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Tokyo!: Three Directors Divide the City

Does anyone remember Japan? The tri-part Tokyo! revisits the Land of the Lost Decade—or at least its largest…