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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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