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Dinner & a Movie: My Date With Sandra Bullock
As home theaters get bigger, movie theaters have battled back with lounge chairs, food, and booze—all the comforts…
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A Town Called Panic: Animated Whimsy From Belgium
Animals and people are all jumbled up in this hyperactive Belgian puppet animation—as in Panic‘s central ménage of…
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To My Great Chagrin: The Exceptionally Cranky Life of Brother Theodore
To those who remember his appearances on David Letterman’s show in the ’80s, Brother Theodore was a German-accented,…
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Mystery Team: The Hardy Boys Refuse to Grow Up
Just because you’re a hit on YouTube doesn’t mean you should be making movies. Case in point: the…
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Gogol Bordello Non-Stop: From Kiev With Love
A whirling dervish of rafter-swinging rebellion, gypsy-punk rockers Gogol Bordello (led by handlebar-mustached beanpole Eugene Hütz—beloved New York…
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The Spy Next Door: Jackie Chan and Billy Ray Cyrus Compare Bad Hair
Like director Brian Levant’s past two outings—2002’s Snow Dogs and 2005’s Are We There Yet?— Spy is immediately…
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Wonderful World: Matthew Broderick as Bitter Stoner
Ah, the Matthew Broderick stoner movie. Ferris Bueller all grown up: divorced, disappointed, a weekend father, looking chubby…
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The Lovely Bones: Peter Jackson Stumbles With New Age Adaptation
Cults collide as Peter Jackson tackles Alice Sebold’s bestselling New Age gothic, the story of a rape-murder-dismemberment and…
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The Book of Eli: Denzel Washington Kicks Ass for Jesus
Directors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and an African American father. With such…
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Leap Year: Amy Adams Deserves Better
According to supposed Irish custom, women may propose to their reluctant fiancés on February 29. The woman here…
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Strongman: Like The Wrestler, Only Real
It’s a good thing that New York director Zachary Levy will attend screenings of his documentary, since he…
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond: Brush Up on Your Tennessee Williams
Consider: If Tennessee Williams’ script for Joseph Losey’s 1968 turkey Boom! (an adaptation of his play The Milk…
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: Heath Ledger and Terry Gilliam in a Messy Collaboration
Reunited with Charles McKeown, his co-writer on Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam has created…
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The Sun: An Oblivious Emperor During World War II
The most perverse installment in Aleksandr Sokurov’s dictator cycle, The Sun (2005) follows his meditations on Hitler (Moloch,…
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Youth in Revolt: Michael Cera, Grow Up Already!
Winded and weary from its long journey to a bigger screen, C.D. Payne’s 500-page 1993 novel has been…
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Died Young, Stayed Pretty: Grunge Artifacts, Suitable for Framing
Several local artists are featured in Eileen Yaghoobian’s fan-ish documentary about rock-poster designers. Opening night, she’ll join Jeff…
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Daybreakers: Ethan Hawke Is Lost Among Corporate Vampires
No fashion-conscious multiplex movie should face opening day without some grave issue of our day propped in its…
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A Single Man: Groomed to Death
Tom Ford applies too much polish to a Christopher Isherwood novel.
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The Young Victoria
Man, British heritage cinema can be dull and boring when assembly-lined for the export market. Laboring under lampshade…