Van Zandt: born to privilege but prone to beautiful sadness.

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Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt

Runs Fri., Dec. 2–Wed., Dec. 14, at Northwest Film Forum.

Nina Simone: Love Sorceress: Indeed!

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Nina Simone: Love Sorceress: Indeed!

Sorceress is right: This document of a 1976 Paris concert, screened as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival,…

Y'all talkin' to me, Miss?

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Down in the Valley

Opens at Uptown, Fri., May 19. Rated R. 112 minutes.

Dutch women greet children on an England-bound train.

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One-way ticket

Children escape Hitler yet lose their families.

Mabrey: our kind of self-destructive drunken supermodel.

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One Last Thing

Opens at Varsity, Fri., May 5. Rated R. 93 minutes.

Kidman's Bewitched script doesn't explain why she's so innocent for a witch.

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Bewitched

Also: Bomb the System, Brothers, The Holy Girl, and McLibel.

Zellweger (center) is plied with temptation.

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Bridget Behind Bars!

Desperate to propel a plot when chemistry doesn't work, this sequel puts its heroine through the wringer. Female…

Hewitt deploys her acting charms to desired effect.

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The Palm Beach story

Screwball comedy falls well short of classic standards.

Three sisters: Henderson, McKee, and Parker.

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Wonderland

One family's woes in a city full of misfortune.

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Honey, I shrunk the screen

Tiny but mighty, microcinemas boom in Seattle

The pugilist at rest: Michelle Rodriguez.

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Knock out

Fighting for respect in a man's world.

Gore the movie star.

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An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore's sobering slide show doesn't quite add up to a movie.

Father and daughter-in-law in Tokyo Story.

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Empty Spaces, Full Lives

In important ways, there's something missing in this comprehensive Ozu retrospective.

Defunct's David Donihue, Jennifer Estes, and Christopher Lloyd.

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Buffalo Bill’s Defunct

Runs Fri., Oct. 14–Wed., Oct. 19, at Northwest Film Forum.

The numbers don't add up for Grace Quek.

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Sex: The Annabel Chong Story

Why a nice girl wants to be gang-banged.

A dancer in Rosas Danst Rosas.

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New Dance Cinema

With choreographed camerawork.

Count Caviezel

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Payback

Revenge is sweet.

911: Encircled by prosperity.

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THE DIGITAL BOOM has its detractors and beneficiaries in the fast-changing film world. Some eschew video, DV, streaming,…

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Creepy, spooky, stupid

Why The X-Files bombs on the big screen.

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Tom Arnold

He turns serious in Happy Endings.