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The Baader Meinhof Complex
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 15, 2009
Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction were the Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army and...
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Law Abiding Citizen
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 15, 2009
The movie wastes no time: Before the opening credits, a man watches two home invaders slaughter his wife and daughter—and we don't even know their names. And then: Deals...
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New York, I Love You
By Michelle Orange
Published: October 15, 2009
Billed as a "collective feature film," New York, I Love You is the second in the "Cities of Love" series. As with its predecessor, Paris je t'aime, there are hits and misses....
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The Boys Are Back
By Brian Miller
Published: October 8, 2009
In the Oscar derby for Best Actor, is it better to die or to grieve? Clive Owen opts for the latter route in this strained, sentimental adaptation of a memoir by widowed...
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Free Style
By Vadim Rizov
Published: October 8, 2009
Ostensibly, Free Style is one of those uplifting family movies built around a niche sport à la 1993's rollerblading cash-in Airborne, with an underdog...
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Walt & El Grupo
By Ernest Hardy
Published: October 8, 2009
In 1941, with financial woes mounting and an animators' strike making his studio anything but the happiest place on earth, Walt Disney took President Franklin D. Roosevelt up...
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Amreeka
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: September 24, 2009
Amreeka The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis, a Palestinian-Jordanian raised in the United States. Divorced,...
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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
By Vadim Rizov
Published: September 24, 2009
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Tucker Max got famous through a Web site detailing how being an asshole to women constantly got him laid, making him a hero to frat boys and a...
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The Other Man
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: September 24, 2009
The Other Man Whatever initial life there might have been in a story by German writer Bernhard Schlink (The Reader) has been crushed to a pulp by writer-director Richard Eyre...
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Paris
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: September 24, 2009
Paris Paris, as overdocumented as any great city, still has new facets to reflect. For proof, see Claire Denis' idiosyncratically observed 35 Shots of Rum—a contrast to...
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It Might Get Loud
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 3, 2009
Marketed as a guitar summit between The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White, Davis Guggenheim's affectionate, intermittently insightful behind-the-music doc is more electric...
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My One and Only
By Melissa Anderson
Published: September 3, 2009
Your enjoyment of My One and Only will depend on how much the words "inspired by incidents in the life of actor and Hollywood icon George Hamilton" spark swoony memories. Star...
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Short Cuts: Enlighten Up! | Food, Inc. | The Merry Gentleman | Sleep Dealer
By Michelle Orange, Robert Sietsema and Nicolas Rapold
Published: June 18, 2009
Enlighten Up! There are a number of tensions at play in Kate Churchill's Enlighten Up!, a documentary about the proliferation of yoga as both spiritual path and commercial...
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'Tis a Foine, Foine Loife
In the holiday insta-classic Evelyn, Pierce Brosnan forms a family bond
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: December 19, 2002
People in show-biz do very weird things to prove their credibility. Starlets pose for skin mags, actors start rock bands, rockers become sit-coms, rappers become tombstones,...
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One Weak Notice
Only die-hard fans of Bullock and Grant need see this predictable comedy
By Jean Oppenheimer
Published: December 19, 2002
It had to happen eventually: the adorably scattered Sandra Bullock and the self-deprecatingly charming Hugh Grant paired in a romantic comedy. As predictable as Miss...
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Beat It
Only band fans need stand in this Drumline
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 12, 2002
Like the similar, funnier Bring It On, Drumline is intent on proving that marching band participants are genuine athletes. Fair enough: The boot camp-style physical training...
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Known Alias
This book adaptation has a grand capacity for compassion and complexity
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: December 12, 2002
The blood disease porphyria sparked madness in England's King George III, so its impact on manic Margot (Nicole Garcia) and her hapless daughter Betty (cucumber-cool Sandrine...
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On Trek
Nemesis goes where many have gone before
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 12, 2002
The 10th Trek film, ostensibly the last featuring the Next Generation crew (or any other, c'mon), plays like a greatest-hits remix; like Die Another Day, it's bent on...
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Hot? Not
Rob Schneider jerks around with his feminine side
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: December 12, 2002
Rob Schneider's latest look-at-me-I'm-so-cute comedy features the star bumbling around half-clad in Christina Aguilera's Goodwill donations. He plays a revolting petty thief...
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Glorious Feeling
Singin' in the Rain returns, happy again
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 28, 2002
At the University of Texas at Austin, this was the first offering screened in introductory film classes; if the professor, a man whose knowledge of cinema history was surpassed...
