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Clean

Showing at Varsity, Fri., June 30–Thurs., July 6. Rated R. 110 minutes.

Harden's harried Krasner.

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The nominee

Women's roles, then and now.

Director Putzulu searches for inspiration.

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Postcard Romantic

Melancholy philosophe contemplates the sad state of history, cinema, and love.

Teen Kasraian and doting mother Farshchi.

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Sons and lovers

When maternal love is all the affection a woman's permitted.

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Deep and weird

Julia Sweeney takes on the big issues: life, death, knitting, and noodles with red topping.

Stevie, grown and incarcerated

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Stevie: Good Intentions Can’t Save the Man

But a good documentary can tell his story.

Nobody puts Charlize in a corner! Theron in North Country.

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North Country

Opens Fri., Oct. 21, at Guild 45 and others.

Look out! She's dangerous! Pfeiffer and Lohman.

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This Girl’s Life

Teen survivor transmutes hardship into art in this Oprah-approved chick flick.

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Running Scared and the Tennessee Williams Collection

Paul Walker: surprisingly okay. Carroll Baker in Baby Doll: a revelation.

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The Omen

Put that kid on Prozac already.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

New Line Home Ent., $39.99

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Donnie Darko

DONNIE DARKO Twentieth Century Fox, $29.98 ONE OF 2001’s most overlooked and original American films (on DVD March…

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Louis Jordan and his Tympany Band: Films and Soundies

Idem, $19.95 THE ’40S SAXOPHONIST, bandleader, and songwriter Louis Jordan spent 106 weeks at the top of Billboard‘s…

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Gushmore

In which our critic is entirely seduced by Wes Anderson's new offering.

Space cowboy McAbee.

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Low orbit

Discovering an oddball galaxy close, close to home.

Auteuil and Binoche watch their lives unravel.

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Caché

Opens Fri., Jan. 27, at Guild 45

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The artist as panty sniffer

How the writer turns his worthless life to estimable art.

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Between a rock and a hard vase

Art? Or a respectable middle-class life?

Sean at 4 in 1969.

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Following Sean

Runs Fri., Jan. 20–Thurs., Jan. 26, at Varsity

Death-obsessed Clarke and McInnes.

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Look Both Ways

Showing at Grand Illusion, Fri., June 16– Thurs., June 29. Not rated. 100 minutes.