Thomas Hüber takes the lead.

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To the Limit: German climbers philosophize in Yosemite National Park

Seattle is full of climbers like me who perhaps once dreamed of ascending the fabled Nose route on…

Seattle-born Wilson is trapped in an '80s flashback.

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The Rocker: We love Rainn Wilson; he loves ’80s hair metal

Directed by Peter Cattaneo, The Rocker‘s more or less the Pete Best story—the tale of a poor bastard…

Mortimer finds something amiss in Russia.

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PICK Transsiberian: Ben Kingsley and Woody Harrelson are stuck on the same train

Up until a couple of weeks ago, this nifty thriller from director Brad Anderson (The Machinist) seemed about…

It's impossible for us to hate a movie featuring Catherine Keener.

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Hamlet 2: Steve Coogan tortures the Bard

Hamlet 2 debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it sold for $10 million to Focus…

Yu in native attire.

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Tuya’s Marriage: Not quite Bridezillas in Mongolia

Like The Story of the Weeping Camel and Mongolian Ping Pong, Tuya’s Marriage is partly an anthropological survey…

Nakatani in more glamorous mode.

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Happily Ever After: Domestic discontent in Japan

I’m pretty sure that’s a fake mole glued on the nose of actress Miki Nakatani—a badge, as it…

Patrycia Ziolkowska (at right) travels east in

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The Edge of Heaven: A pomo, post-colonial, polyglot soap opera

Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven wears current events on its sleeve, feeling out the state of German-Turkish…

Cruz arrives late to scorching effect.

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Scarlett Johansson gets sexed up in Spain

Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen’s 39th film as writer-director, will…

Leo goes Oscar hunting in River.

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Frozen River: Melissa Leo and her awful hairdo seek an Oscar

If Melissa Leo were Charlize Theron with artfully applied bags under the eyes, an Oscar nomination would surely…

How can we not want the hangdog Wilson to live?

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Henry Poole Is Here: Luke Wilson wants to die

Henry Poole is dying. Diagnosed with an unspecified fatal disease, Poole (Luke Wilson) retreats into the numbing sunniness…

Nolte, yes, plays Nolte.

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Tropic Thunder: A little something to like from Tom Cruise

Ben Stiller is back in the sendup business, nibbling gently at the soft, manicured hands that feed him…

One of our military training corpses.

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Full Battle Rattle: How We Teach Our Troops to Kill (and Survive) in Iraq

A combat doc once removed from combat and twice mediated by stagecraft, Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss’ Iraq…

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Kicking It: Homeless Athletes on the Soccer Pitch

Vagrants apparently don’t need a home address to feel a patriotic duty to their homeland, or so attests…

Bartendress Dushku pours a stiff one.

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Bottle Shock: 1976 Was a Good Year for Wine

But the movies? Not so much.

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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2: Ugly Betty, Blake Lively, and the Other Girls Are Back

Resist if you dare, and for as long as you must, but even the hoariest haters eventually succumbed…

Yes, you knew this film would contain Michael Madsen.

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Hell Ride: Enough With the B-movie Homages Already!

In the post–Pulp Fiction ’90s, one could throw a rock at random and hit a two-bit Quentin Tarantino…

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America the Beautiful: Shocker! We’re all Deeply Superficial

This scattershot documentary recapitulates vintage Beauty Myth trumpery: Beauty standards make us average frumps miserable and are the…

True bromance: Franco (left) and Rogen.

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Pineapple Express: James Franco and Seth Rogen Are Almost Totally Gay for Each Other

It offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-’em-up, smoke-’em-up, blow-’em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who…

Garfield has nowhere to hide.

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Boy A: Crime and Punishment in the UK

Based on the 2004 novel by Jonathan Trigell (itself rooted in real news events), Boy A is the…

Why did Kingsley and Cruz have to meet at all?

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Elegy: Eeew!

A hookup between Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz!