Happily ever after? Not exactly. Davis and Giamatti show married life for what it is.

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American Splendor: A Loving Portrait of Harvey Pekar

Why a whining malcontent is the most likable guy on screen this season.

Thurman as the obtainable object.

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The collector

Trophy wife pays price for her acquisition.

Baio the slimmed-down, late-career hunk.

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The Bread, My Sweet: A Big Bat Scott Baio Snuff Movie

THE FIRST STARTLING thing about The Bread, My Sweet (which opens Friday, July 18, at the Metro) is…

Polley as the lovelorn Maren.

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Boiling Over

Well-wrought drama of troubled marriages builds to a violent storm.

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Reel world

A film about dating suggests that cinema is always about romance.

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Nine Lives

Opens Fri., Oct. 28, at Harvard Exit.

Kontroll's Balla and Csányi.

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Kontroll

Also: Ladies in Lavender, Layer Cake, The Longest Yard, Madagascar, Mad Hot Ballroom, 3-Iron, and We Jam Econo:…

Bogart stands alone among his doubters.

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Here’s looking at you

Bogie takes his public to a different place.

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Cheesorama

OK, so a near-century of history only produced one great Cinerama film. But that film alone makes its…

Misty Dawn Wilkins plays Rose, who brings trouble to the doll factory.

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Bubble

Opens Fri., Jan. 27, at Metro

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Private

Showing at Grand Illusion, Fri., April 7– Thurs., April 13. Not rated. 90 minutes.

Aki on the set.

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Kaurismäkithon

Four weeks, 18 films, and more umlauts than our copy editors will allow!

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Caché, Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party, and Syriana

Colonial guilt, charming stories from Hollywood, and a petro-thriller without a central character to hook us in.

Director and star on the set.

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Star-struck

Press tour reveals much about roles, little about picture.

Cat Kubic and Sam Jalhej two-step by the mirrored saddle.

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Cremaster 2

An art film out West.

Eminem gives Murphy the evil eye.

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Eminem Crosses Over

Dog's got some star appeal, but he's still bigger on the small screen.

Akinshina, the child, sees her dark reflection as a woman.

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Lilya 4-Ever: Little Girl Lost

Escaping the hopeless East, Lilya finds even less hope in the West.

Gere and his client Zellweger.

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What We Can’t Wait to See

The holiday flicks we'll be first in line for.

Unhappily ever after? Reilly and Aniston.

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Glum Expectations

There's no escape for heroine or audience in this drab world.

Close orbit

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Close orbit

An upstart festival fights SIFF gravity.