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Mar 8, 1985
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A dark, perverse samurai film from Akira Kurosawa (1980).
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Jun 23, 2006
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The underrated and potent noir specialist Phil Karlson directed this 1952 action thriller about a bank heist, and though it isn't a patch on his 99 River Street or The Phenix City Story, it's still well worth checking out.
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Jul 23, 2009
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Andrzej Wajda has spent much of his long career dramatizing major events in Polish history, and this poignant feature depicts the circumstances surrounding the Soviet Union’s massacre of thousands of Polish officers in the spring of 1940.
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- by Joshua Katzman
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Tags: Drama
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Oct 25, 2012
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Following Married Life (2007), an unconvincing foray into period neo-noir, writer-director Ira Sachs returns to the messy modern romance that defined his breakthrough feature, Forty Shades of Blue (2005).
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama
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Apr 16, 2004
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In contrast to Kill Bill Vol.
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Oct 26, 1985
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John Cassavetes's first crime thriller, a postnoir masterpiece, failed miserably at the box office when first released in 1976, and a recut, shorter version released two years later didn't fare much better.
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- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Tags: Drama
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Nov 29, 2012
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Producer Brad Pitt and writer-director Andrew Dominik team up again after their critically acclaimed The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), switching genres from western to crime—their source material is George V. Higgins's 1974 novel Cogan's Trade—but focusing again on the talk of hardened men.
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Nov 8, 2007
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Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me has inspired a wave of stunt documentaries in which filmmakers try to will a story line on an amorphous issue by putting themselves through some nutty gauntlet.
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Oct 26, 1985
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A marvel for eye and ear, this superior animated feature (1998) by Michel Ocelot adapts a West African folktale about a fearless, inquisitive boy who breaks a beautiful sorceress's spell over his village.
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Feb 26, 2002
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Though the feeling persists that this movie wants to bring the spirit of Neil Simon—meaning the Jewish middle class and the New York suburbs—to lesbian farce, this adaptation by costars Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen of their own off-Broadway play is both better and worse than that description implies.
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Jun 19, 2008
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The publishing and merchandising phenomenon American Girl makes its way to the big screen with this handsome production starring Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) as a plucky tweener in Depression-era Cincinnati who longs to be a reporter.
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Oct 26, 1985
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As close to a classic as anything New Hollywood produced, Alan Pakula's 1971 film tells of a small-town detective who comes to New York in search of a friend's killer.
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Jul 23, 2008
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Hands down the most visually striking of DreamWorks Animation's releases, this lively CGI comedy (2008) is tailor-made for Jack Black, who voices Po, a sweet but timid roly-poly panda in ancient China who idolizes his martial arts heroes, the Furious Five.
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