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Paul Newman and Sergio Leone Are Still Golden
The Bridge Koch Lorber, $26.98 Maybe you’re the type who tends not to watch real people kill themselves…
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ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway: Shocker–Tony Kushner Is Smarter Than Boy George
Movie buffs who don’t know their way around the Great White Way will be struck by the endless…
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Red Road: Scottish Voyeur Indicts Herself, Compellingly
Like all voyeurs, Jackie (Kate Dickie) lacks a life to call her own outside of her job manning…
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1408: Stephen King Drives John Cusack Crazy
There was every reason going in to believe that 1408, based on a Stephen King short story, would…
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La Vie en Rose: Havent Heard of Edith Piaf? Dont Start Here
Uplifted beyond its merits by a thrilling performance from Marion Cotillard, this humdrum biopic of France’s favorite songbird,…
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Eagle vs. Shark: Kiwis Find Love in All the Wrong Places
From across the international date line (New Zealand) comes a wonderfully weird, wry romance where the hearts, as…
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Angel-A: Luc Besson Fails to Jump the Shark
What if you took It’s a Wonderful Life and replaced George Bailey with a scruffy Parisian con man…
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Evan Almighty: Steve Carells Comedy Hot Streak Trips on Bible
This sequel to Bruce Almighty is the work of an angry God. A sanctimonious sitcom dolled up as…
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Take One: Jolie Takes A Mighty Heart Hostage
Not since Lara Croft has the actress had so apposite an avatar.
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Day Watch: Russian Sequel Doesnt Blow Up Enough Shit
Night Watch, you may recall, told of an ancient feud waged between the forces of Light and Dark.…
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Take Two: There Is an Embedded Thriller in a Mighty Heart
Do we need another movie about the liberal West watching in horror as something that daily befalls helpless…
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Golden Door: Familiar Immigrant Saga Is Pretty, and Pretty Dull
Emanuele Crialese’s depiction of dirt-poor Sicilian immigrants bound for Ellis Island deliberately restricts itself to the perspective of…
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Inlaws & Outlaws: Gay Marriage, Great. Context: Not So Much
Drew Emery’s locally made debut documentary, seen in a slightly different cut at SIFF ’05, tackles the always…
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Macbeth: Crockett and Tubbs Meet the Scottish Play
There’s nothing so difficult or novel about restaging Shakespeare in modern dress—just add cell phones and iPods, button-snap…
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SIFF Week Four: Picks & Pans
Alien Autopsy In the long history of fine Fox Network programming, the 1995 special Alien Autopsy: (Fact or…
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Triad Election: Hong Kong Mobsters Earn Their MBAs
Heroically prolific Hong Kong director Johnnie To has made it his mission to bring the gangster film into…
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Crazy Love: The Opposite of a Fun Couple
The less you know about Burt and Linda Pugach, the couple whose tumultuous 50-year relationship is documented here,…
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SIFF 2007: Week Three: Picks and Pans
Alive Russia’s been producing some interesting movies about its disastrous military intervention in Chechnya (as we’ll soon be…
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Surfs Up: You Goddamn Penguins Get off My Lawn!
The cash-cow flippered ones rise again, this time as yellow-tufted surfer dudes riding the waves of life off…
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Oceans Thirteen: Charming Cheaters Grab Your Cash
We've had our fun, and now Steven Soderbergh has our money. Oh, wait, that was two movies ago.