Film Search
- Jul 24, 2012
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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...
- Oct 8, 2004
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A tout de suite
In Benoit Jacquot's excellent Sade (2000), lissome French ingenue Isild Le Besco gave a seductive performance as a teenage girl corrupted by the legendary marquis. more...
- Jan 27, 2011
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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (NR)
Abbott and Costello were never known for their quality control, but once the comedy duo launched their successful TV series in 1952, their theatrical features really hit the skids. more...
- Oct 25, 2007
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Bud Abbott, probably the sharpest straight man in movie history, was badly alcoholic and almost as pudgy as his partner by the time they made this rote horror comedy (1955), their last for Universal. more...
- Mar 7, 2013
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The ABCs of Death (NR)
Twenty-six horror/fantasy filmmakers contribute three- or four-minute shorts, each taking death as its theme and a letter of the alphabet as its inspiration. more...
- May 14, 2002
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About a Boy
Few movies have made better use of Hugh Grant's shallow charm and amused befuddlement than this funny and well-paced adaptation of Nick Hornby's best-selling second novel, which charts the unlikely friendship between a preteen nerd crossing over into adolescence (Nicholas Hoult) and a thirtysomething hipster hanging on to it for dear life. more...
- Oct 4, 2012
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About Cherry (NR)
Dramas about the porn industry range from expressions of puritanical rage (Paul Schrader's Hardcore) to celebrations of open sexuality (Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights); this one manages to avoid both extremes, as well as anything else that might make it worth watching. more...
- Jun 12, 2012
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R)
Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) imagines the great moral leader of American history as an action hero. more...
- May 21, 2012
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D (R)
Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) imagines the great moral leader of American history as an action hero. more...
- Feb 14, 2008
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Academy Award Nominated Live Action Short Films 2007
Like a good short story, a good short film embraces the limitations of its form instead of struggling against them, which may explain why, of the four films I was able to preview on this program of Oscar nominees, the worst turned out to be the longest while the best was among the shortest. more...
- Mar 5, 2009
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Accidents at Home and How They Happen
Jennifer Reeder (White Trash Girl) directed this quiet but commanding story of a frosty publishing executive who moves into her sister's apartment after she commits suicide. more...
- Sep 14, 2007
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Across the Universe
If a bullet hadn't killed John Lennon, this Beatles-scored musical might have. more...
