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Pina: Wim Wenders’ 3-D Tribute to Pina Bausch
“You just have to get crazier” are words of advice mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave one of…
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Man on a Mission: A Travel Movie From Space
The man in the title is British-American multimillionaire Richard Garriott, who made his pile designing PC “virtual world”…
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W.E.: Madonna’s Royal Folly
W.E. is the second feature film credited to former MTV queen Madonna, and the second in about a…
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SpokAnarchy!: Aging Punk Rockers Remember the ’80s
Aging punks were the recent subject of The Other F-Word (i.e. fatherhood), and aging punks are again the…
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Crazy Horse: Frederick Wiseman Stares at Leggy French Girls
Recording the anthem “Les Filles du Crazy,” half a dozen women—performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris’ classy nudie…
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Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2012: As Usual, the Cartoons Are Best
This year’s shorts offer a little something for every viewing temperament, though some categories require sitting through a…
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The Innkeepers: Guests Check In, but They Don’t Check Out
Horror movies are lately given to gluttonous effects, but director Ti West (The House of the Devil) is…
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Miss Minoes: An Adorable Dutch Cat Movie
More delightful than Procatinator and a greater tribute to the power of print journalism than Page One: Inside…
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A Separation: The Oscar-Nominated Iranian Divorce Drama
Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s fifth feature is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the…
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Coriolanus: Ralph Fiennes Bloodies Up the Bard
Updating Shakespeare seems doubly condescending, the implication being that we need help to relate to the text, and…
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The Nine Muses: Snow, More Snow, and English Immigration Woes
Richard Burton lives! An arthouse mashup of The Odyssey and England’s colonial immigration wave following World War II,…
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Addiction Incorporated: The Evils of Big Tobacco
With a name that not even the PR team at Smokefree America could dream up, Victor DeNoble emerges…
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The Conquest: The Not-Quite-True Story of Nicolas Sarkozy
A brisk, fascinating chronicle of a pre–Carla Bruni Nicolas Sarkozy that time-shifts from May 6, 2007—the day he…
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Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close Gets Her Oscar Nomination
Fulfilling a mission that has consumed her for almost two decades, Glenn Close—as producer, co-writer, and lead—brings to…
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Man on a Ledge: Just Jump Already!
The hero of this red-herring heist flick draws two reactions from the throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on…
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Norwegian Wood: Not the Murakami Adaptation You Want
Director/screenwriter Tran Anh Hung crams Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood into two and a half hours that offer barely…
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Margaret: Kenneth Lonergan’s Long-Delayed Teen Drama
Shot in 2005—lead actress Anna Paquin, now 29, credibly plays a 17-year-old—Margaret was delayed first by the editing-room…
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How the Fire Fell: A Jesus Cult in Oregon
“Inspired by true events” in the early 1900s, as this somber Portland indie declares, How the Fire Fell…