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  Ti West

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror... More >>

• Iran

  By J. Hoberman

  A Separation — the fifth feature by Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi — is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you... More >>

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  Sam Worthington

  By Brian Miller

  The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown... More >>

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  Thomas Horn

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn't like: After 2002's The Hours, a lugubrious women's-problem picture touching on AIDS... More >>

• Steven Soderbergh

  By Nick Pinkerton

  There's a point in Haywire when the film's protagonist, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), gone rogue from her job as hired muscle for a... More >>

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  Meryl Streep

  By Karina Longworth

  In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which re-teams director Phyllida Lloyd with her Mamma Mia! star Meryl Streep, eightysomething Margaret... More >>

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  Carnage

  By Karina Longworth

  Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play, Carnage, stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet as two sets... More >>

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  Angelina Jolie

  By Karina Longworth

  It's 1992 at the start of In the Land of Blood and Honey, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook up at a Bosnian... More >>

• The Divide

  By Nick Pinkerton

  A mushroom cloud blooms over Manhattan at the opening of The Divide. We see it reflected in the tearful eyes of Eva (Lauren German), who'll spend... More >>

• Queen Latifah

  By Melissa Anderson

  A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane, Joyful Noise, about a small-town Southern gospel choir, lifts from Usher's "Yeah!" to give us this... More >>

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  Dee Rees

  By Melissa Anderson

  The first 10 minutes of Dee Rees' funny, moving, nuanced and impeccably acted first feature, in which coming of age and coming out are... More >>

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  David Fincher

  By J. Hoberman

  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is hardly a personal project. Still, David Fincher's sveltely malevolent remake of the 2009 Swedish blockbuster... More >>

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  Cameron Crowe

  By Robert Wilonsky

  When I told someone I was off to a screening of We Bought a Zoo the other day, the response was an eye-roll. The reaction is understandable: Save... More >>

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  Diablo Cody

  By J. Hoberman

  Described as a "psychotic prom-queen bitch," the anti-heroine of Young Adult is a prize part that affords Charlize Theron one of the season's... More >>

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  Robert Downey Jr.

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Although supplying boy's adventure thrills on the side, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are remarkable for how they make the process... More >>

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