Two cowboys (Jake Gyllenhaal, good, and Heath Ledger, exceptional) share a night of passion while working briefly as sheepherders in 1963, then spend the remainder of their otherwise straight lives tragically concealing their affair.
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Solid but unambitious, this detective movie recalls a late-40s noir programmer in its brisk plotting and gritty but affectionate portrait of city life.
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Danish director Susanne Bier (Open Hearts) elicits wonderfully intimate performances from her actors, and this 2004 drama has so many genuine, low-key encounters it manages to overcome a contrived and familiar plot.
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Kept out of West Point by poor eyesight, Jake Rademacher got into theater in Chicago; backed by executive producer Gary Sinise, he makes his filmmaking debut with this documentary about his two younger brothers' experience as soldiers in combat in Iraq.
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Elvis (Bruce Campbell) is alive but not exactly well, living in a decrepit east Texas rest home after having changed places with an impersonator years before his supposed death.
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Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts adapted his play into this fearsome horror movie, directed with single-minded claustrophobia by William Friedkin (The Exorcist).
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Sylvester Stallone teams up with Walter Hill—whose early triumphs like The Warriors (1979) and Southern Comfort (1981) have long since given way to action vehicles for Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, and Wesley Snipes—for a routine crime picture along the lines of Hill’s big hit 48 Hours (1982).
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Nominated for an Oscar as best foreign film, this Belgian import about crime in the cattle business lays it on pretty thick with the bull metaphors: the protagonist (Matthias Schoenaerts), a tall and well-muscled cattle farmer, has been injecting himself with testosterone since he was a boy and a local bully beat his genitals to a pulp with a brick (just as his family have been injecting their stock with hormones for years).
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Director John Landis (Animal House, An American Werewolf in London) proves there's no limit to the number of times you can get a laugh by having characters keel over in shock.
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