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Inkheart: How to Mess Up a Perfectly Good Childrens Book
Brendan “Kids’ Choice” Fraser returns to the multiplex day-care as Mo Folchart, antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer and member of a race…
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PICK Che: The Revolution Continues (for Four Hours)
And so the endless campaign wraps up with a flurry of virtual leaders. Richard Nixon will always be…
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Last Chance Harvey: Emma Thompson Can Do No Wrong
Can a heartwarming meet-cute as unambitious and overtly sentimental as Last Chance Harvey be simply too nice to…
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Defiance: James Bond Saves the Jews
Will there be a special Academy Award for Best Aryan Costume Design this year? Everywhere you turn in…
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Azur & Asmar: For Those Who Like Their Tolerance Parables Animated
With its delicate fairy-tale bones and layer of politically conscious muscle, Azur & Asmar is a sleek yet…
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PICK The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke Finally Gets His Oscar Shot
The Wrestler may be plenty visceral, but it’s no more a sports movie than professional wrestling is a…
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PICK 20 Seconds of Joy: Yes, Parachute Jumping Is Dangerous
I could tell you, flippantly, that this extreme sports documentary about daredevil Norwegian parachutist Karina Hollekim is brought…
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PICK Revolutionary Road: Marital Advice From Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
There’s a wonderfully perverse irony in the fact that the film version of Richard Yates’ first and most…
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The 12 Best Films of 2008: Now in Alphabetical Order!
Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the…
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The Feature: Slippery French Artist Pretends His Life Is a Movie
Eurotrash? Art-world parasite? Smack-dabbling bluebeard? Warhol wannabe? Compulsive no-talent video diarist? It’s hard to know where to begin…
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Bedtime Stories: Adam Sandler Bores Us
In his usual underdog role, Adam Sandler palys a lowly Los Angeles handyman recruited by his sister (Courteney…
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The Spirit: Like Sin City, Without the Sin or the City
With the fanboys anxiously eying Zack Snyder’s Watchmen adaptation, Frank Miller’s version of The Spirit sneaks into theaters…
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Brad Pitt Goes Forrest Gump
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious—a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born…
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PICK Gran Torino: Clint Eastwood Learns a Lesson
Walt Kowalski growls a lot–a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches…
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Late Bloomer: A Different Kind of Serial Killer
“People who grin all the time, you never know what they’re up to,” says a friend of beer-guzzling,…
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Whos the More Oscar®-Ready Nazi?
Oscars mean Nazis. Or, to put it differently, ’tis the season of Holocaust movies, which generally entail swastika-wearing…
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The Reader: Kate Winslet Likes the Little Boys
Like Doubt, Stephen Daldry’s The Reader is low-budget, high-profile, and beamed straight at the Academy of Motion Picture…
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Valkyrie: Tom Cruise Refuses to Follow Orders
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg–a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into the…
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Marley & Me: Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston Upstaged by Puppy
Satisfying only to pet-porn junkies whose tear ducts can’t even withstand a 365 Ferrets a Year calendar, the…
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Save Me: UtahNo Home for the Gays
Save Me‘s plot sounds like a ripped-from-the-headlines gay play circa five years ago, but the film itself subverts…