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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Tuyas 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
