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Vitus: High IQ Plus Even Higher Fructose
An excellent argument for a vasectomy, the Swiss-made Vitus offers up another one of those annoying child prodigies…
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The Simpsons Movie: Eeeexcellent!
In his big-screen debut, Homer Simpson utters the “D’oh!” heard round the world—or at least as far away…
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Interview: Journalist Steve Buscemi Battles Starlet Sienna Millerin a Steel Cage!
Steve Buscemi the director is nothing like the art-damaged auteur Buscemi the actor played in 1995’s Living in…
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My Best Friend: Daniel Auteuil Is the Loneliest Guy in Paris
Light, airy, and sweet, Patrice Leconte’s latest comedy swings his favorite premise—fruitful encounters between opposites—away from romance and…
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The Trials of Darryl Hunt: We Don’t Take Kindly to Your Newfangled DNA Evidence Down Here
DNA testing has not only revolutionized our criminal justice system, it’s also given documentary filmmakers a whole new…
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Sunshine: Not Quite Trainspotting in Space
It is the year 2057. Approximately 5 billion years ahead of schedule, the sun is beginning to die.…
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Daratt: African Orphan Becomes Assassin
African director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s austere, hypnotic third feature—also known as Dry Season—explores the legacy of Chad’s decades-long civil…
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Ten Canoes: Immersed Among the Aborigines
Directed by the Dutch expatriate filmmaker Rolf de Heer, this sometimes bawdy (remember: “Never trust a man with…
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I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone: Kuala Lumpur Is Flooded With Longing
Led by a magic flute that not all can hear, avant-pop marches on: Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want…
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Talk to Me: Again Don Cheadle Outshines His Material
Having ascended to genre supremacy, the biopic has long since reached its imaginative low—so much so that the…
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Orson Welles, Muay Thai Mayhem, and a Lost Musical Genius
Dynamite Warrior Magnolia, $26.98 What does it mean when the makers of the mighty Ong-Bak produce another blast…
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No Reservations: Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart Are Eye Candy in the Kitchen
In this by-the-recipe remake of 2001’s German chocolate cake Mostly Martha, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Kate, a top chef…
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Goyas Ghosts: Natalie Portman Trapped in Horrible History Lesson!
Everybody at Cannes says Javier Bardem makes a marvelous villain in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old…
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Gypsy Caravan: Romani Musicians Spread Their Joyous Music
Don’t wait for Jasmine Dellal’s doc to end up broken between pledge-drive pitches: This joyous portrait of the…
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Hairspray: John Travolta Helps Sell the Safe, Bland Side of John Waters
Neither salacious nor cinematic, this tepid third treatment of Hairspray is only notable for its casting.
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry: Adam Sandler Mostly Avoids Easy Fag Jokes. Mostly
I wanted to hate this caper about two straight firefighters (Adam Sandler and Kevin James) pretending to be…
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Cashback: Kwik-E-Mart Rendered as Art Gallery
Wong Kar-wai on aisle four and Michel Gondry on aisle six, with Kevin Smith as mop jockey at…
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Lady Chatterley: Three Hours of Crazy French Lovin
Pascale Ferran’s magnificently sensual adaptation of an earlier version of D.H. Lawrence’s novel isn’t remotely bawdy, but it…
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Half Moon: Again With the Kurdish Neorealism
Bahman Ghobadi, Dogpatch fabulist and dean of Iranian Kurdish cinema, leads another magical mystery tour through his mountainous…
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Syndromes and a Century: Another Time-Shifting Trance Film From Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand’s leading experimental filmmaker and international man of mystery, isn’t exactly a master of suspense. Still,…