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Little Oral Annie Takes Manhattan: Interesting Narrative Structure, and a New Use for Butter
Little Oral Annie Takes Manhattan is not a XXX parody of Annie in the style of Pirates. There’s…
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The Social Network: A Movie About a Website That Distracts You From Watching Movies
Why would a couple of over-40 dudes, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, make a movie about…
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Burlesque: Wasted Assets
“She doesn’t sing that way because she’s had it easy.” This is how Tess (Cher), the long-suffering owner…
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Megamind: Kryptonite for 7-Year-Olds
On matters animated and three-dimensional I take my cue from the 7-year-old sitting at my right, who got…
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Twin Cinema
The contrasting fortunes of West Seattle's Admiral Theater and Burien's Tin Theater.
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Hiroshima: It’s Awfully Quiet Down in Uruguay
Wait, weren’t we promised an atomic blast? Where’s our explosion, our fallout, our mushroom cloud? The nuclear suspense…
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And Everything Is Going Fine: Spalding Gray’s Last Words. And Then Some
“Maybe I should just tell you some of the facts as I remember them,” says Spalding Gray a…
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The Green Hornet: Seth Rogen’s Star Vehicle Turns Crime Fighter Into Jerk
Only inertia will bring people to Michel Gondry’s new 3-D spectacle. Opening amid persistent negative buzz in the…
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Casino Jack: Kevin Spacey Turns Evil!
The late George Hickenlooper’s Casino Jack is an improbably blithe cautionary tale, recounting the rise and fall of…
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Country Strong: Gwyneth Paltrow Channels Margo Channing
Kelly Canter is the Courtney Love of country stars. Spectacular meltdowns onstage have forced Kelly (an inconsistently twanging…
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Blue Valentine: Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams Have Sad Breakup Sex
Derek Cianfrance’s divorce drama is the story of how a couple (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) travels from…
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Guy & Madeline on a Park Bench: A Delightful Indie Musical
A quasi-documentary portrait of young non-actors striking poses, walking around Boston, hanging out, and playing or listening to…
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The 10 Best Films of 2010
1. The irony of The Social Network is that its creators, director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin,…
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Made in Dagenham: Seeking Equality on the Assembly Line
Wimmin power retrofitted as holiday heart-stirrer, Made in Dagenham recounts the real-life 1968 strike for equal pay by…
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2010 Holiday Film Guide
This holiday season, we wanted to help with the tough decision whether to leave the house to see…
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Rabbit Hole: Nicole Kidman Can’t Bring this Play to Life
Based on the Pulitzer Prize– winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole plops us down…
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The King’s Speech: Colin Firth Stammers His Way Toward an Oscar
A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza for the brothers Weinstein, The King’s Speech…
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Little Fockers: Ben Stiller, Stop! No More Fockers, Please
For the third time, Robert De Niro questions Ben Stiller's manhood.
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True Grit: The Coen Brothers Improve on the 1969 Western
Boldly reanimating the comic Western that secured John Wayne his Oscar 41 years ago, the Coen brothers’ True…
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The Tempest: Helen Mirren Can’t Save This Shakespearean Muddle
In Julie Taymor’s hands, Shakespeare’s The Tempest becomes a listless feminist parable. The duchess Prospera (Helen Mirren) has…