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Feb 22, 2018
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Screenwriter Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel, Queen of Earth) keeps his acidic wit in check for this ensemble drama about love, loss, and people's connection to objects.
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Apr 20, 2017
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Joseph Cedar may be one of Israel's most respected dramatic filmmakers, but he was born in New York City, lived there until he was six, and returned as a young man to earn a graduate degree in film at New York University.
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Nov 2, 2017
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Early in this drama about cloistered life, a nun declares, "There can be no love without sacrifice," her words presaging the self-abnegation to follow for novices in a strict Roman Catholic order, circa 1964.
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- by Andrea Gronvall
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Tags: Drama
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May 19, 2016
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Seth Rogen (stunt cast as a grown-up) and Rose Byrne (stunt cast in a comedy) reprise their roles from Neighbors (2014) as parents clashing with the hard-partying college kids next door.
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Mar 29, 2016
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YouTube celebrities Roman Atwood, Vitaly Z, and Dennis Roady debut in their first feature-length film.
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Nov 17, 2016
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Tom Ford's follow-up to his writing and directing debut A Single Man (2009) is a bitter pill of a movie about a saturnine Los Angeles art gallery owner (Amy Adams) who receives a novel manuscript written by her estranged ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) that serves as a violent metaphor for the end of their relationship.
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May 19, 2016
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This comedy noir by Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) opens with a spectacular—and spectacularly tasteless—sequence in which a boy admires the centerfold model in a porn magazine just before a car crashes straight through his house and expels the body of the very model he's been ogling, which comes to rest in the same boob-baring pose.
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Jun 23, 2016
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An innocent teenager (Elle Fanning) arrives in Los Angeles in search of a modeling career and, blessed with that indefinable something, quickly rises to the top; this alienates and then angers her blond, lissome competitors, who are a bunch of vampires.
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Sep 22, 2015
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Ramin Bahrani is that rare dramatist who understands street-level economics.
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama
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Sep 17, 2015
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A young husband and father (Romain Duris), traumatized by the death of his wife (Isild Le Besco), starts wearing her clothes and perfume to calm their screaming baby daughter and soon rediscovers a latent interest in cross-dressing.
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Aug 27, 2015
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An American family must run for their lives when a coup erupts in the southeast Asian country where the father has been sent for work.
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Oct 29, 2015
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Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva is well versed in the easy indolence and fragile well-being of the upper-middle class: his acclaimed 2009 drama The Maid slyly satirized a rich family's emotional exploitation of their longtime domestic servant, and this U.S. production unfolds among the comfortable bohemians of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama
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Nov 19, 2015
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Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star as old pals who reunite every Christmas to make the rounds of their favorite Manhattan haunts.
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Aug 28, 2014
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Putin haters will get a bang out of this hard-charging spy thriller, adapted from a novel by Bill Granger.
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Jun 12, 2014
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In the acclaimed Wendy and Lucy (2008), writer-director Kelly Reichardt and screenwriter Jon Raymond submerged their anger over America’s fraying social safety net in a simple story of a homeless young woman and her dog; this excellent drama is more explicit politically but marries the rhetoric to a slow-burning suspense story that won't let go.
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