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Indie Game: The Movie: The Downside to Freelancing for Microsoft
Seattle is home to legions of pallid, sleep-deprived programmers, and Microsoft’s Xbox gaming platform is central to this…
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It Came From Detroit: Rock History From Iggy Pop to Jack White
Director James R. Petix will be on hand Saturday to present his lovingly rendered doc about his hometown’s…
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Monsieur Lazhar: A Moving Schoolyard Tale From Montreal
A blanket of white covers Montreal inside and out in this understated, affecting Canadian drama. The schoolyard where…
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Whores’ Glory: A Sad Global Survey of the Sex Trade
As with meat processing and politics, the day-to-day drama, tedium, and heartbreak of prostitution have little to do…
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Surviving Progress: Again, the Earth Is Going to Hell
Right from the start, this documentary lets viewers know there will be no easy answers to the questions…
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The Deep Blue Sea: Rachel Weisz Sleeps Around
The first fiction feature in a dozen years from visionary British director Terence Davies is a film about…
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The Hunter: Willem Dafoe Versus the Tiger of the Mind
Drawing baths and listening to classical music, refined soldier of fortune Martin (Willem Dafoe) is sent Down Under…
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Marley: A Long, Compelling Profile of the Late Reggae Legend
Thoroughly researched and packed with phenomenal archival footage, Kevin Macdonald’s documentary on the reggae and Rasta emissary, who…
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Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie: The Gospel of Green
Celebrity scientist and PBS fixture David Suzuki arrives late to the global-warming-documentary party with this combination of biography…
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Overnight: Next Time Take the Train
If you’re going to trap the leads of a romantic comedy on a red-eye flight from L.A. to…
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This Is Not a Film: A Dispatch From an Iranian Dissident
In 2010, internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home and sentenced to six years…
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Applause: A Drunken Actress in Denmark
Appearing in every frame of Applause, Thea Barfoed (Paprika Steen), an aging actress and recovering alcoholic trying to…
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Bully: OK, We Get It: Bullying Is Wrong
Arriving in theaters on a wave of free publicity (its distributor, the Weinstein Company, butted heads with the…
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The Lady: The Aung San Suu Kyi Biopic Is Duller Than the Headlines
Now is an excellent time to release a biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, the inspiring Burmese democracy…
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Footnote: Rival Talmudic Scholars
Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) is a 40- something Talmudic scholar whose research has earned adulation while his 60-something…
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The Salt of Life: How to Age With Dignity
As in his directorial debut, Mid-August Lunch, Gianni Di Gregorio stars in this quiet comedy—this time as Giovanni,…
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia: Finding the Body Is Secondary
When even the cops in this Turkish police story begin joking about bladder control, you know you’re in…
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American Reunion: Will the ’90s Never End?
This latest episode in the ongoing American Pie saga, handled by the Harold & Kumar writer/director team of…
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They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain: A Burma Documentary Is Suddenly Topical
Much less the rabble-rouser than 2008’s Burma VJ, Robert H. Lieberman’s two years of firsthand reportage from that…
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Four Lovers: An Open Marriage Goes Predictably Bad
Using a fluid naturalism to establish its afterglow vibe, Four Lovers follows two married couples as they swap…