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Hobo With a Shotgun: Great Title, No Story, Much Blood
Pick a reason to balk at this spot-on, garishly threadbare paean to ’80s no-budget sleaze: It apes a…
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SIFF: Week 2 Picks & Pans
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 [PICK] Perfect Sense 4:30 p.m., Egyptian SIFF honoree Ewan McGregor previously worked with director David…
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Incendies: a Middle Eastern Soap Opera
This latest blast of unwavering miserablism from Denis Villeneuve, Oscar-nominated and everything, reaches for something deeper than mere…
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The Hangover Part II: Less Funny, More Offensive
Most sequels are born of good box office rather than good ideas—if you build it and they come,…
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Seattle International Film Festival: Around the World in 25 Days
Since 1976, the Seattle International Film Festival has imposed its own particular burdens on the ambitious Seattle filmgoer.…
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The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls: Theyll Double Your Kiwi Fun
Resistance is futile. Don’t even try not falling for these adorable twin lesbian political-activist farmer/folksinger/comedians from New Zealand.…
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SIFF Week 1: Picks & Pans
THURSDAY, MAY 19 The First Grader 7 p.m., McCaw Hall Based on the true story of an 84-year-old…
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13 Assassins: Chop. Slice. Repeat
Lord Naritsugu (Gorô Inagaki) is a royal terror, and the court fears Caligula-like horrors should he come into…
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Le Quattro Volte: Deep Into the Soul of Italy
Grave, beautiful, austerely comic, and casually metempsychotic, Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte is one of the wiggiest nature…
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Forks Over Knives: Yet Another Vegan Manifesto
Looking to documentaries to learn how to live could easily become a life-consuming occupation in itself. I’m waiting…
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Bridesmaids: Kristen Wiig Stumbles to the Altar
Built around the talents of co-writer/lead actress Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids is the first female-fronted comedy produced by Hollywood…
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Hesher: Check Out the Tats on Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Spencer Susser’s initially rousing Hesher introduces an engimatic stranger into a fractured family with equivocally redemptive results. The…
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Louder Than a Bomb: Teen Poets Endorsed by Oprah
Hoop Dreams meets American Idol. If you’re sick of poetry slams already, if you have no patience for…
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Rammbock: Berlin Undead: When Zombies Come Knocking
A very atypical zombie movie, the somberly effective Rammbock begins like a breakup drama and ends in a…
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Meeks Cutoff: Michelle Williams Searches for Oregon
Tenacious indie Kelly Reichardt has specialized in quirky, minimalist quasi–road movies in which loners come unmoored in some…
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Something Borrowed: Kate Hudson Becomes Ever More Tiresome
Based on a 2005 work of chick literature by Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed is a tale of love…
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Queen to Play: Yes, an Exciting Film About Chess
After chambermaid Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) glimpses an American couple (Jennifer Beals and Dominic Gould) playing chess in the…
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The Robber: Rob. Run. Repeat
What makes Johann run—and rob? Benjamin Heisenberg’s second feature is as taut, lean, and fleet as its title…