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James Benning's experiment in fragmented narration took a first prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. more...

• by Dave Kehr
• Tags: Experimental

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12 Monkeys (R)

Following a global epidemic that has eradicated most of humanity, time travel becomes the only hope of mankind's survival; a volunteer (Bruce Willis) returns to 1990s Philadelphia to find the source of the epidemic, but he's promptly locked away as a madman. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Tags: Science fiction, Thriller

12th Chicago Irish Film Festival (NR)

The 12th annual festival opens with Ian Power’s drama THE RUNWAY, in which a fatherless boy in County Cork comes to the aid of a Colombian pilot who’s crash-landed on the outskirts of town; Power and producer Macdara Kelleher will attend (Fri 3/4, 7 PM). more...

• by J.R. Jones

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17 Girls (NR)

Based on a 2008 incident that rocked the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, this debut feature by French sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin centers on five close pals at a high school in seaside Lorient who all agree to get pregnant and raise their children collectively. more...

• by J.R. Jones
• Tags: Drama

2012 (PG-13)

In accordance with the Mayan doomsday calendar, "mutated" neutrinos emanating from the sun trigger spectacular CGI disasters on earth that culminate in a global flood. more...

• by Cliff Doerksen
• Tags: Action, Drama, Thriller

2012: Time for Change

In this documentary by João Amorim, journalist Daniel Pinchbeck discusses ways to achieve a more sustainable, less materialistic planet. more...

• Tags: Animated, Documentary

2033 (NR)

Set in a sterile, white-walled dictatorship where all the workers are drugged, this lavish sci-fi feature from Mexico manages to resemble THX 1138 (1971) or the more recent Gattaca (1997) while skimping on full-scale pyrotechnics. more...

• by Michael Wilmington
• Tags: Adventure, Science fiction

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift (NR)

A compilation of found footage presented by Everything Is Terrible. more...

42nd Street (NR)

This 1933 film is the best known of the Warner Brothers Depression-era musicals, though it doesn't compare in dash and extravagance to later entries in the cycle. more...

• by Dave Kehr
• Tags: Musical comedy

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50 Years @ 1512: A History of the Better Boys Foundation (BFF)

This documentary recounts the history of the Better Boys Foundation, founded in 1961 by Chicago philanthropist Joe Kellman and comedian Buddy Hackett to provide tutoring and mentoring for teens. more...

• Tags: Documentary

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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (G)

The first of the Charles Schneer-Ray Harryhausen fantasy films, made in 1958. more...

• by Dave Kehr
• Tags: Fantasy

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This Super-8 feature by Boston-area filmmaker Luther Price is at once an essay on failure and a barely coherent mess, its violations of narrative grammar so consistent that they become a statement. more...

• by Fred Camper

A Ciascuno il Suo

Elio Petri's 1967 feature, adapted from a novel by Leonardo Sciascia. more...

A Grammar for Listening (NR)

Short works by Luke Fowler that play with sound and scenic imagery. more...

• Tags: Program

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence

A collaboration between the living Steven Spielberg and the late Stanley Kubrick seems appropriate to a project that reflects profoundly on the differences between life and nonlife. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum