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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...
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On the Farm
Hilary Birmingham makes an impressive debut with Tully
By Andy Klein
Published: November 28, 2002
Small-town stud Tully (Anson Mount) works the family farm with his younger brother Earl (Glenn Fitzgerald) and their inexpressive, unsmiling widower dad (Bob Burrus). The...
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Trials and Tribulations
Documentary presents a case against Kissinger
By Andy Klein
Published: November 28, 2002
Taking its cue from Christopher Hitchens' excoriating, similarly titled book (minus the "s" in "Trials"), this terse and compelling documentary presents the case that former...
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Dark Chocolat
Chabrol's bonbon femme fatale
By Andy Klein
Published: November 28, 2002
Through a strange chain of events, a likable young pianist (Anna Mouglalis) becomes an interloper in the household of an internationally renowned musician (Jacques Dutronc),...
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Half Bad
Steven Seagal fans won't even go for this lame hostage movie
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: November 14, 2002
If the title is a Jeopardy question, then the answer might be "How does Steven Seagal come across these days?" or maybe "How will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of The...
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Hot Stuff
The lighthearted Wasabi offers real kicks
By Andy Klein
Published: November 14, 2002
A tough Paris cop (Jean Reno) flies to Tokyo for the funeral of his great lost love, only to find out that she has left him in charge of the rebellious teen-age daughter (Ryoko...
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Like Father, Like Hell
Mexican priests make it hurt so good in El Crimen del Padre Amaro
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: November 14, 2002
It is the essential sexiness of holy archetypes that stirs up a ruckus in Carlos Carrera's competent if unremarkable tragedy, adapted by screenwriter Vicente Lenero from the...
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Movie Magic
This 1946 version of Beauty and the Beast is enchantingly fantastic
By Jean Oppenheimer
Published: November 14, 2002
So enchanting it takes your breath away, Jean Cocteau's 1946 live-action version of the famous fairy tale remains one of the most magical films ever made. Boasting a new print,...
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Damaged Goods
Waking Up in Reno is not that bad, but it's not that good, either
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 24, 2002
Not as bad as its rep--Miramax has been hiding this sucker on the shelf for danged near two years--but not good enough to overcome its status as damaged goods, which is almost...
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Memory Lame
Godard meanders aimlessly In Praise of Love
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: October 24, 2002
The French word for turkey is dindon, so French New Wave auteur Jean-Luc Godard's latest movie is basically fricasé du dindon. Snoots will no doubt rally to its cause,...
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Sinking Ship
This movie will take you on a ghostly voyage, but you'd be better off staying home
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: October 24, 2002
The scrappy salvage tug Arctic Warrior sets out to plunder the legendarily missing and newly discovered luxury liner, Antonia Graza, and all bloody hell breaks loose for...
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Pact With the Devil
The Grey Zone raises some important moral questions
By Jean Oppenheimer
Published: October 24, 2002
This exceedingly graphic Holocaust drama concerns the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, a special squad of Jewish prisoners who, in exchange for better food and a few extra months of...
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Girl Power
Satin Rouge shows strong work from a debut director
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: October 17, 2002
It's a family affair when widowed, repressed Lilia (Hiyam Abbas) and her spunky daughter Salma (Hend El Fahem) just can't get enough of a suave drummer, Chokri (Maher Kamoun)....
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