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The Hunting Party: Richard Gere Settles Scores in Bosnia
Simon (Richard Gere) and Duck (Terrence Howard) are hot-shit reporters in the hot zone, drinking and carousing their…
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The Devil Came on Horseback: Darfur, Still on Our Conscience
The crisis in Darfur—the slaughter of 400,000 black African citizens by the Arab-led Sudanese government and its Janjaweed…
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Summercamp!: Cute Kids Make for So-So Documentary
For fans of cute-kid docs like Spellbound and Mad Hot Ballroom, Summercamp!, which follows a group of Wisconsin…
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Chalk: Mockumentary Goes to High School
Trouble paying attention in class, low self-esteem, hormonal confusion, counting the days until summer vacation—and those are just…
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The Hottest State: Dont Hate Him Because Hes Ethan (Hawke)
After the deathly dull, faux-hipster muddle that was Ethan Hawke’s directorial debut, Chelsea Walls, expectations aren’t exactly high…
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The Brave One: Jodie Foster is the New Charles Bronson
In the new Neil Jordan movie, Jodie Foster plays New York talk-radio host Erica Bain, who survives a…
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Mr. Woodcock: Billy Bob Thornton Pushes His Hard-Ass Shtick Into Overtime
Bad Santa gets worse every time he trots out the same mean routine; does anyone at this late…
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Across the Universe: Beatles Narrowly Survive Brawl With Julie Taymor
After Hair and the mass marketing of tie-dye, can the ’60s be shrunk to fit any further? Yes,…
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Exiled: Another Hong Kong Shoot-Em-Up
Johnnie To is the lone Hong Kong action director who’s done his best work in the aftermath of…
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In the Valley of Elah: From Paul Haggis, Crash Goes to Iraq
Loosely drawn from Mark Boal’s 2004 Playboy investigative piece about the killing of a soldier who went AWOL…
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Shoot Em Up: Clive Owen Spews Lead
In this extremely violent, guilty pleasure of a thriller, Clive Owen is a tough guy in a long…
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Czech Dream: Globalization Gets Punkd!
Hey, Prague—you got punk’d! In this subversive Central European slice of reality TV, Czech film students Vít Klusák…
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3:10 to Yuma: Russell Crowe Will Kill You and Your Entire Family
Huffing and puffing to resuscitate a long-moribund genre, James Mangold manages to imbue a 50-year-old Western with a…
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Will Ferrell on Ice! Plus Other Releases
Air Guitar Nation Docurama, $18.89 Alexandra Lipsitz’s doc about those about to rock with their bare hands and…
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This Is England: No Nostalgia for the Thatcher Era
Drawing on memories of a specific place and time—England in the early ’80s—writer-director Shane Meadows nails the look…
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Balls of Fury: Christopher Walken Turns Chinese!
1. Balls of Fury is a movie about: (a) A former table-tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona)…
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Manhattan: Woody Allen Shags a Teenager!
Manhattan is not just Woody Allen’s dream movie. Wistful as it is witty, it’s his dream of the…
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Fortune Hunters: Local John Hughes Followers Are Taking Their 20 Minutes to Hollywood
“I’ll leave it to someone else to be condescending and snarky,” says Mike Standish of his sweet-tempered 20-minute…
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Pierrot le Fou: Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina Are the Sexiest Couple of 1965
The epitome of New Wave pop art romanticism, the 1965 Pierrot le Fou is as evocative of its…
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Norikos Dinner Table: More Japanese Teen Suicide Cults
The 2005 sequel to Suicide Club, Sion Sono’s J-horror hit from 2002, this film follows young Noriko from…