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Tron: Legacy: Old Jeff Bridges Battles Young Jeff Bridges in Disneys Reboot
Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, he’s also the devil in Disney’s…
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Budrus: An Uneasy Alliance in the Occupied Territories
The little-told story of a small but growing nonviolent opposition movement among rural West Bank Palestinians gets an…
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I Love You Phillip Morris: Jim Carrey as Love-Struck Con Man
It’s taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to…
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How Do You Know: Reese Witherspoon Must Choose Between Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd
This brave odd duck of a romantic comedy from James L. Brooks strays as far from a barrel…
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All Good Things: Ryan Gosling Is Pressured Into Murder
The fiction feature debut of Andrew Jarecki, director of the 2003 documentary Capturing the Friedmans, All Good Things…
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Queen of the Lot: So That’s What Happened to Noah Wyle
A sequel to his 2006 Hollywood Dreams, Henry Jaglom’s Queen of the Lot again stars Tanna Frederick as…
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The Fighter: Mark Wahlberg Tries to Out-Rocky Rocky
The Fighter is based on the true story of Lowell, Mass., light welterweight champ “Irish” Micky Ward, but,…
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Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields: For Fans Only
There’s a school of thought among some music journalists that interviewing musicians is a waste of time. They…
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale: From Finland, the Dark Side of Santa
Based on his own series of popular-on-the-Internet short films, Finnish writer/director Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale…
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Black Swan: Natalie Portman Is Crazy for Swan Lake
A near-irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of heterosexual…
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: More Adventures in C.S. Lewis Land
This third adaptation from C.S. Lewis’ seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia comes underwritten by a new studio and with…
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White Material: Isabelle Huppert Gets Kicked Out of Africa
Claire Denis’ tense, convulsive White Material is a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty. The…
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Tibet in Song: The Musical Resistance to Chinese Rule
Raised as an exile in India, Tibetan ethnomusicologist and first-time filmmaker Ngawang Choephel returned to his homeland as…
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector: From Top 40 to a Life Sentence
A feature-length portrait of a pop-music genius as (pre-)convicted murderer, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector…
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Leaving: Kristin Scott Thomas Falls for a Boy-Toy
In her recent English-speaking roles, 50-year-old, bilingual Kristin Scott Thomas has gamely endured the fate of most actresses…
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The Portuguese Nun: Enchantment in Lisbon
A French actress, Julie (Leonor Baldaque), arrives in Lisbon to shoot a 17th-century costume drama. She’ll star in…
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Alamar: Father and Son Consider the Cycles of Life
Divorce sucks, especially when there are kids involved. Yet Pedro González-Rubio takes a lyrical view of a father…
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Burlesque: Christina Aguilera Spins Her Tassels
Programmatic by design, Burlesque flattens singer Christina Aguilera’s inherent thorny appeal—a persona at once obnoxiously “provocative” and sympathetic—by…
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Tangled: We’re Siding With the Witch
“Great,” sighs the wicked witch in this CG-animated spin on the Rapunzel story, “now I’m the bad guy.”…
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Kings of Pastry: Made With Real Butter
Recording a three-day competition in Lyon, France, in which sugar is molded into rococo shapes, Kings of Pastry…