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The 10 Best Reasons to Celebrate Our Local Film Scene
For Seattle cinema lovers, 2011 was a good news/bad news year. For the bad, there was the May…
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The Adventures of Tintin: Spielberg’s 3-D Detective Is a Little Creepy
Steven Spielberg’s motion-captured, 3-D The Adventures of Tintin rolls together plot elements from three comic-book adventures starring Belgian…
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The 10 Best Movies Seen in Seattle
Too much time at my desk (and in museums and galleries), not enough time in screening rooms. The…
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We Bought a Zoo: Matt Damon Needs a Hug
When I told someone the other day I was off to a screening of We Bought a Zoo,…
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The Artist: A Celebration of Silent-Era Cinema
An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist will probably be the most successful…
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A Stylish, Engrossing Adaptation of John le Carré
John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the 1974 spy novel generally regarded as the writer’s finest, is…
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Young Adult: Charlize Theron Will Not Go to Rehab
Described as a “psychotic prom-queen bitch,” the antiheroine of Young Adult, directed by Jason Reitman from a Diablo…
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I Melt With You: A Lost Weekend With Jeremy Piven
Insincere and superficially nihilistic, Mark Pellington’s swaggering, midlife-crisis melodrama—about a soulless quartet of asshole college buds you’d never…
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Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles: A Guerrilla Art-History Doc
Alien to the street yet embedded within it, easy to read but impossible to decipher, the Toynbee Tiles…
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: An Acceptable Robert Downey Jr. Sequel
The great success of Guy Ritchie’s 2009 Sherlock Holmes was to make Arthur Conan Doyle’s gimlet-eyed detective, first…
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Outrage: Takeshi Kitano Continues His Yakuza Fixation
Takeshi Kitano’s latest finds the actor/director returning to the familiar terrain of the yakuza film after recent farces…
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Shame: An NC-17 Tale of Sex Addiction
Steve McQueen’s first two films star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles, and are nearly as grueling to…
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Charlotte Rampling: The Look: Surprise, She’s Better With a Script
“A self-portrait through others,” as it’s subtitled, this conversational hall of mirrors never takes its microscope off the…
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Tyrannosaur: Peter Mullan as Rageaholic
Tyrannosaur opens with a dog being kicked to death by its master, Joseph (Peter Mullan), a Leeds widower…
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Sleeping Beauty: Definitely Not the Children’s Fairy Tale
Frustratingly opaque, Julia Leigh’s debut feature opens with an unforgettable image: A young woman, earning some cash as…
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El Bulli: Cooking in Progress: Closing Time at a Premium Spanish Restaurant
Molecular-gastronomy rock star Ferran Adrià’s Catalonian culinary paradise El Bulli is due to serve its last meal on…
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The Man Nobody Knew: Secrets and Lies in Washington, D.C.
With a chewy title to tip us off, director Carl Colby’s compelling and tricky portrait of his late…
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Paul Goodman Changed My Life: Rediscovering a Prophet of the ’60s
As bluntly humanist and free-ranging as its subject, this brisk take on the life of poet, sociologist, educator,…
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Dragonslayer: Surfing the Empty Pools of L.A.
Tristan Patterson’s lyrical and formally audacious documentary follows Josh “Skreech” Sandoval, a 23-year-old wastoid pro skater with corporate…
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Kinyarwanda: Dramatizing the Rwandan Genocide of the ’90s
One of the goals of writer/director Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda, set in the midst of the Rwandan genocide of…