Aberdeen

Persuaded by her dying mother, a lawyer with a thing for cocaine goes to Norway to get her alcoholic father and bring him to the hospital in Scotland. more...

• by Lisa Alspector

Aberlado's Tales

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Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure (NR)

Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder will present a live-projection performance, accompanied by composer and sound artist Olivia Block. more...

Abigail's Party

A videotaped version of a Mike Leigh stage play (1977) that is one of his most scathing and extreme works, aptly described by one commentator as a “cocktail party from hell.” A highly insensitive, aggressive, and garish housewife (Alison Steadman) “entertains” three neighbors (Janine Duvitsky, John Salthouse, Harriet Reynolds) while bickering with her uptight husband (Tim Stern). more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Abolicao

Zozimo Bulbul's 1988 Brazilian documentary looks at the Afro-Brazilian experience a century after slavery was abolished in Brazil. more...

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

An engaging 1971 parody of Victorian horror films by Robert Fuest, the director responsible for the earnestly absurd TV series The Avengers. more...

• by Dave Kehr

The Abominable Freedom

An experimental video by Torsten Z. Burns and Darrin Martin. more...

Abortion: Stories from North and South

Women from Ireland, Japan, Peru, Colombia, and Canada describe their experiences with illegal abortions in a documentary directed by Gail Singer. more...

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Abouna (Our Father)

This understated but affecting 2002 drama, which director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun says is one of just three features ever made in Chad, should be required viewing for American kids who think they've got troubles. more...

• by Fred Camper

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...

• by J.R. Jones

About a Girl

A rebellious young woman finds an outlet in boxing and her increasingly intimate relationship with a female friend. more...

About Adam

Stuart Townsend and Kate Hudson star in this 1999 comedy from the UK, about a Dublin waitress who brings home a handsome stranger and finds herself competing with her sisters and her mother for his affections. more...

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Shot in July 2003, this collectively made video documentary is by far the most comprehensive account I've seen of how Iraqis view the U.S. war and occupation. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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...

• by J.R. Jones
• Tags: Drama

“About Last Night . . . ”

Adapting David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago, screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue have done an admirable job of turning an unfilmable piece into a polished commercial product (1986), yet so much of the flavor of the original has been lost that you wonder why they bothered with the Mamet in the first place. more...

• by Dave Kehr