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    A love story between two guys and a car.
    Bellflower: A Very Handmade Indie
    By Rob Nelson • August 30, 2011 12:00 am

    Dutifully hipster-hyped at Sundance and South by Southwest, writer/director/actor Evan Glodell’s testosterone-fueled, fever-dream indie impresses less for its screeching take…

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    Chastain as Nazi hunter.
    The Debt: Helen Mirren Hunts Nazis
    By Michael Atkinson • August 30, 2011 12:00 am

    A remake of the far more brisk 2007 Israeli film with a bullpen of aging stars, this rather old-fashioned espionage…

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    Ifans as the Zelig of the international drug trade.
    Mr. Nice: The True Story of an English...
    By Benjamin Mercer • August 30, 2011 12:00 am

    As might be expected of a globe-hopping, decades-spanning drug-smuggler biopic, Mr. Nice commences by trying to induce a contact high:…

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    How Luke got his swing back: Black as the wandering pro.
    Seven Days in Utopia: Robert Duvall Cashes an...
    By Eric Hynes • August 30, 2011 12:00 am

    A fantasy about a temperamental, wand-wielding young man named Luke and the aphorism-uttering master who leads him to enlightenment, Seven…

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    Caught in the middle: Torre's village leader (with Rio Locsin as his wife).
    Amigo: John Sayles’ Imperialist Prologue in the Philippines
    By J. Hoberman • August 30, 2011 12:00 am

    John Sayles’ Amigo aspires more to educate than entertain, but it’s no less engrossing for that. Torn from the pages…

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    Cassady at the wheel, on the road.
    Magic Trip: An LSD Trip Best Avoided
    By J. Hoberman • August 23, 2011 12:00 am

    The subject of Magic Trip is the LSD- powered, cross-country road movie orchestrated by novelist Ken Kesey in the summer…

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    Don't go in the mansion! Holmes the protector.
    Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark: Won’t Someone...
    By Chuck Wilson • August 23, 2011 12:00 am

    Die-hard horror fans (including this one) generally spend their adult lives hoping to re-experience the fear and awe they derived…

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    Recollections of happier days with Ramazzotti and Albelli.
    The First Beautiful Thing: An Italian Salute to...
    By Michelle Orange • August 23, 2011 12:00 am

    If there’s a more complicated place than Italy to be a beautiful woman, the filmmaking world has yet to identify…

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    Peagler behind bars.
    Crime After Crime: Battered Women Behind Bars
    By Benjamin Mercer • August 23, 2011 12:00 am

    On its face, the title is misleading. Crime After Crime sounds like a repeat-offender case study, but instead concerns the…

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    Kwanten as the bullied office boy.
    Griff the Invisible: Not-So-Adorable Defectives Fall in Love
    By Michelle Orange • August 23, 2011 12:00 am

    An Australian misfits-in-love story manufactured from whole quirk, Griff the Invisible is more mannerism than movie. Griff (True Blood‘s Ryan…

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    Manyaka as stoic heroine.
    Life, Above All: A Plucky 12-Year-Old Heroine in...
    By Melissa Anderson • August 16, 2011 12:00 am

    “AIDS” isn’t uttered until well past the halfway mark of Oliver Schmitz’s problematic South Africa–set tale about the fear, gossip,…

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    One of the filmmakers gets more than she bargained for.
    Atrocious: Something’s Blair Witchy in Spain
    By Michael Atkinson • August 16, 2011 12:00 am

    A Spanish Blair Witch DIY-er with a nutsy, preemptive title, this trifle scoots and skitters along guilelessly, as if the…

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    Weisz patrols a lonely beat.
    The Whistleblower: Rachel Weisz Versus the Sex Traffickers
    By Rob Nelson • August 16, 2011 12:00 am

    In Canadian director Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower, shot in Romania, British babe Rachel Weisz plays a poor Nebraska cop who…

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    Two old villagers study a likewise depleted tree.
    The Sky Turns: The Portrait of a Dying...
    By Andrew Schenker • August 16, 2011 12:00 am

    An award winner at Rotterdam way back in 2005, Mercedes Álvarez’s The Sky Turns, a film that aims to both…

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    Hathaway and Sturgess as the date-driven duo.
    One Day: Anne Hathaway Ventures Back to the...
    By Karina Longworth • August 16, 2011 12:00 am

    Emma (Anne Hathaway) is a too-serious would-be writer in coke-bottle glasses and combat boots. She’s nursing a crush on Dexter…

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    World's worst robbers: Eisenberg and Ansari.
    30 Minutes or Less: Why Would Anyone Want...
    By Seth Colter Walls • August 9, 2011 12:00 am

    Danny McBride and Nick Swardson play Dwayne and Travis, a duo of going-nowhere types who, on the advice of a…

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    To accept The Guard, you must accept Gleeson.
    The Guard: Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle as...
    By Nick Pinkerton • August 9, 2011 12:00 am

    This shaggy-man character study follows a 50-something policeman in western Ireland, Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson). No by-the-book cop, Boyle…

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    Stone as tyro journalist.
    The Help: Emma Stone Lives Up to Her...
    By Karina Longworth • August 9, 2011 12:00 am

    A fast-talking, eye-rolling snarler, Emma Stone wears a truly terrible perm to play the allegedly dowdy Skeeter, a recent college…

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    Professor Terrace with two of his conquests: Nim and grad student Stephanie Lafarge.
    Project Nim: A Chimp Tragedy
    By Rob Nelson • August 9, 2011 12:00 am

    Not every member of Homo sapiens who sees Project Nim will be moved to pledge membership in PETA. Still, this…

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    Gainsbourg versus the tree.
    The Tree: Charlotte Gainsbourg as Misbehaving Widow
    By Melissa Anderson • August 9, 2011 12:00 am

    No one grieves onscreen quite like Charlotte Gainsbourg, here playing Dawn, made a widow within the first 10 minutes of…

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