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Rendition: Jake Gyllenhaal Turns Into Christopher Walken
For all its brave rhetoric about 9/11 and the Constitution, Gavin Hood’s slick thriller about American outsourcing of…
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30 Days of Night: Josh Hartnett—Less Stiff Than a Zombie
Writer Steve Niles and illustrator Ben Templesmith’s three-issue comic-book series, originally published in 2002, spawned a subsequent franchise…
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Gone Baby Gone: Ben Affleck Puts a Stake in Bennifer
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor…
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Reservation Road: Joaquin Phoenix Leads All-Star Misery-Fest
Hotel Rwanda director Terry George’s film version of John Burnham Schwartz’s 1998 novel is one of those movies…
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The Darjeeling Limited: Wes Anderson Lets Go of His Baggage
The estranged brothers Whitman have reunited for a journey on board the Darjeeling Limited, a colorful old locomotive…
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The District: Hip-Hop Hungarians Threaten President Bush
Yo, check my mad Magyar rhymin’ skillz, y’all. This animated Budapest ghetto rap-sody is a mash-up between Romeo…
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We Own the Night: Joaquin Phoenix Stars in a Straight-Ahead Cop Flick
Of a generation of filmmakers who all wanted to be the next Scorsese, James Gray was different: He…
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The Final Season: Ex-Hobbit Stars in Small, Pleasing Baseball Tale
Formulaic but not cynical, The Final Season has some sweet, thoughtful passages in what is otherwise just one…
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Kurt Cobain: About a Boy: Grunge Ghost Speaks From Beyond the Grave
First things first; this is not a documentary. It’s more of a surrealist meditation on how the sociopolitical…
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age: Cate Blanchett Does Dallas
Nine years after proffering her origin story, director Shekhar Kapur revisits Queen Elizabeth I, once more played by…
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5 Centimeters per Second: Puppy Love in Japan
With a title that somehow suggests porn or horror, this gentle, wistful anime triptych by Makoto Shinkai (The…
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Lust, Caution: Ang Lee Makes Sex, WWII Boring
Based on a 54-page short story by Eileen Chang, Ang Lee’s latest foray into forbidden love is as…
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Great World of Sound: Music Swindlers Sell Their Souls
Unemployed and living with his artist girlfriend, Pam (Rebecca Mader), in Charlotte, N.C., rudderless Martin (Pat Healy) takes…
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David & Layla: A Multiculti Mishmash
Jay Jonroy, an Iraqi Kurd now living in New York, has had two close relatives end up in…
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Michael Clayton: George Clooney Anchors Superior Courtroom Drama
It will no doubt be said time and again of Michael Clayton: best John Grisham adaptation ever. Only,…
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Brad Pitt as Romantic Outlaw
Calling all pundits. It’s a baffling caprice of the zeitgeist to have two studio Westerns released in the…
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Delirious: Gina Gershon Is Cougar-Hot
Almost an oxymoron, this stalkarazzi fairy tale constantly threatens to split apart, as writer-director Tom DiCillo (Living in…
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Local Sightings Film Festival: Seattle Directors Take Their Cameras to New Orleans and the Gobi Desert
Mossy navel-gazing is too often the first impulse of Northwest indie filmmakers. After cadging money from family and…
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The Jane Austen Book Club: Their Estates Do Lie AdjacentÂ…
If you can’t get enough of the Mutually Supportive Sisterhood narrative, there’s every chance you’ll go for this…