A Toronto doctor (Julianne Moore), doubting the fidelity of her college professor husband (Liam Neeson), hires a call girl (Amanda Seyfried) to test him, and the young woman begins to insinuate herself into the couple's lives.
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A free-spirited young Iranian woman begins to explore a secret sexual relationship with her best friend, while her older brother finds new power inside their liberal, middle-class family by aligning himself with the thuggish morality police of the Islamic Revolution.
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This solid horror feature by Scottish writer-director Ciaran Foy recalls such minor George Romero efforts as Jack's Wife (1972) and The Crazies (1973): it isn't too scary, but it commands attention with its idiosyncratic plot, setting, and tone.
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Political sex scandals erupt so frequently and evaporate so quickly that we tend to file them away in the bulging folder of American hypocrisy and forget, but the brilliant muckraker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money) refuses to let go of the "Love Guv" fracas that brought down New York governor Eliot Spitzer.
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A very bad film—snide, barely competent, and overdrawn—that enjoys a perennial popularity, perhaps because its confused moral position appeals to the secret Nietzscheans within us.
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David Mitchell's acclaimed 2004 novel consists of six stories, the first set in the 19th century and each subsequent one happening later in human history, with the last taking place in the distant future.
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David Mitchell's acclaimed 2004 novel consists of six stories, the first set in the 19th century and each subsequent one happening later in human history, with the last taking place in the distant future.
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Made with the support of Karl Lagerfeld, head of the Chanel firm, this visually seductive but emotionally cool French biopic offers authentic period detail as it imaginatively reconstructs the relationship between two giants of modernism.
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Pam Grier, with revenge on her mind and a shotgun in her hand, blasts her way through a succession of pimps, hoods, cops, pushers, and politicians in this gory, violent 1973 entry in the Brown Sugar genre.
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Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, alumni of the Saw franchise, scripted this feature about an ex-con trying to pull a heist in a vacation home rigged with boobytraps.
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Jason Reitman's romantic comedy Up in the Air scored points with critics by touching on the fear and anger of America's unemployed, but this potent, entirely honorable drama by veteran TV dramatist John Wells actually delivers the goods, pondering the pain and dislocation of the new normal.
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Robert Redford directed and stars in this boomer drama about the Weather Underground, impressive for its cast of aging talents (Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Richard Jenkins, Brendan Gleeson).
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