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Jan 26, 2012
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Glenn Close finally succeeds in mounting a screen version of the cross-dressing play she starred in on Broadway in 1982, about a meek, impoverished woman in Edwardian Ireland who poses as a man in order to support herself as a butler at a Dublin hotel.
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama
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Dec 15, 2006
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Jonathan Demme produced and cowrote this 1971 biker movie with director Joe Viola.
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Jun 20, 2013
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A son of counterculture parents takes up golf in this 2012 Canadian comedy by Jesse James Miller.
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Feb 14, 2008
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Jim Kelly stars in this kung fu actioner (1977), directed by Al Adamson.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces) came out of hibernation with this 1987 tale of a federal agent (Debra Winger) on the trail of a deadly sexual predator (Theresa Russell) who invariably murders the wealthy men she marries.
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Oct 1, 2009
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Michael Moore catalogs some of the more grotesque outrages of the second Gilded Age: the predatory lending that led to the 2008 bank bailout, corporations taking out life insurance policies on their rank-and-file employees, airline personnel so poorly paid they have to moonlight to pay their bills.
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Jan 12, 2012
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After a school bully assaults a classmate, the victim's parents (Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly) invite the aggressor's parents (Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz) over for a civilized chat that doesn't stay civilized for long.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Mike Nichols's 1970 film might have been the original "deal" movie: it's got all the right elements—a hot director, a cult novel, an impeccably hip cast—yet nothing comes together.
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Aug 30, 2012
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Craig Zobel—whose crafty debut feature Great World of Sound (2007) played at the Chicago film festival but never opened here theatrically—takes on the unenviable task of dramatizing a story that defies credulity even though it's quite true.
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Jul 18, 2013
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Director James Wan follows up Insidious (2011) with another relatively bloodless haunted house movie.
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Jun 26, 2012
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Freddie Francis directed this 1974 horror flick starring Jack Palance as an antiques dealer who performs a weekly ritual involving human sacrifice.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Real-life kung fu masters Frankie Shum and Jack Conn star in this 1984 martial arts effort about two men—one armless, the other legless—who get their revenge on the villains who maimed them.
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Dec 20, 2012
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Quentin Tarantino follows his head-turning World War II adventure Inglourious Basterds with another exercise in pop-culture provocation, turning the old western hero Django into a freed slave who sets out to rescue his wife from bondage in the antebellum south.
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Apr 26, 2012
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Vincent Cassel plays the title gangster in this 1997 French actioner, which also features such future Gallic marquee names as Monica Belluci (Irreversible) and Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped).
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Mar 11, 2005
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Two young anarchists break into homes, rearrange the furniture, and leave vaguely threatening notes about capitalist excess.
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- by Hank Sartin
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Tags: Drama