Local hero Wiebe wins over the skeptics in The King of Kong.

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New on DVD: Local Teacher Conquers Florida Gunslinger!

Joshua Fox, $27.98 George Ratliff’s movie, a sort of satirical take on Rosemary’s Baby, came and went upon…

Vig and Amvrosija find love, or something equally spiritual.

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The Monastery: Love Among the Relics of Christianity

  Living alone in the dilapidated Hesbjerg Castle he purchased more than 40 years ago, octogenarian bachelor Jørgen…

“Bloody ’ell, Edge, we’re bigger than Ireland!”

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U2 3D: Irish Supergroup Gets Supersized

Three dimensions seem scarcely enough to contain the messianic impulses of the world’s hardest-rocking humanitarian aid project, and…

Happiness is a warm gun.

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Untraceable: Diane Lane Is a Cougar With a Gun!

Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First of all, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little…

Supply your own joke about Weixler flossing between boys.

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Teeth: Teen Sex Gets Even More Dangerous

Credit writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein with making a first feature that every man in America will watch with his…

Meet the jihadist of unstoppable Swedish disco!

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Persepolis: Abba Versus the Mullahs!

Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation—though it moves fluidly enough and…

Taymourian’s marriage is upended when her husband gets his sight back.

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The Willow Tree: Iranian Auteur Majid Majidi Turns to Grown-Ups

The Willow Tree is the first film from Iranian director Majid Majidi to deal primarily with adults rather…

Cusack lies to his adorable daughters, Shélan O’Keefe (left) and Grace Bednarczyk.

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Grace Is Gone: John Cusack’s Bad Hair Signifies Sincerity

A year after winning the screenplay and audience awards at Sundance 2007, writer-director James C. Strouse’s Grace Is…

Wesley is never less than winning.

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How She Move: Better Than High School Musical

High School Musical excepted, dance figures now in teen movies mostly as competitive sport: Either it’s an NBA-like…

Cloverfield: The Blair Witch Monster

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Cloverfield: The Blair Witch Monster

Manhattan is under attack! Where’s Will Smith to save us from shaky cameras, blathering YouTube actors, and cheap…

Garner puts her Alias chops to use in The Kingdom.

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Fresh Carnage From Jennifer Garner and Jason Statham

The Kingdom Universal, $29.98 No doubt about it, Peter Berg’s The Kingdom ranked as one of 2007’s more…

Sophie’s Choice (with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline) came relatively late to the Holocaust game.

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Imaginary Witness: The Holocaust Before Sophie’s Choice

  This dutiful documentary has less to do with Hitler and Himmler than with Louis B. Mayer and…

“D’ye tink Woody’s gone daft or sometin’?”“Nah, mate, he’s just tryin’ to be a bloody Scorsese.”

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Cassandra’s Dream: Woody’s Latest Is DOA.

“I do think the writing is pessimistic—all that stuff about life being a tragic experience,” says Angela Stark…

Keaton at least counts herself lucky not to be in Cassandra’s Dream this week.

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Mad Money: Diane Keaton Offers Her Two Cents’ Worth

  In this remake of a 2001 BBC television production titled Hot Money—about women who clean the Bank…

Yea, Ingrid! Local skier makes good!

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Steep: Local Skier Makes Good!

  The three deepest profundities plowed by Mark Obenhaus’ blandly beautiful, inarticulate extreme-skiing doc are: (1) Alaskan snow…

Heigl feels pretty. The movie? Not so much.

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27 Dresses: Katherine Heigl Is Naked Without Judd Apatow

  A forgettable, formulaic comedy so predictable that seeing it and skipping it are the exact same thing.…

The bow tie is just asking for a wedgie

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Billy the Kid: A Teen Icon for the ADD Set

  Billy is a 15-year-old boy living in rural Maine. He’s also THAT KID you went to high…

He’s smiling because he’s winning.

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War Made Easy: Or, How Bush Snookered Big Media

    A critical element of waging war is the maintenance of a well-oiled propaganda machine, one that…

The manga forebears to the live-action Honey and Clover crew.

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Honey and Clover: Not Exactly Art School Confidential

  Usually the phrase “based on the popular Japanese comic book” means you can expect saucer-eyed cherubs or…

Morgan shoulda stayed on 30 Rock.

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First Sunday: Tracy Morgan Cashes Easy Paycheck

  LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan) is the screwup-schemey one; Durell (Ice Cube), the should-know-better buddy. Their latest very awful…