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Jan 21, 2013
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This strikingly beautiful black-and-white feature by Miguel Gomes (Our Beloved Month of August) considers the legacies of early cinema and Portuguese colonialism in Africa, suggesting that both were rooted in false illusions of remaking the world.
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Mar 27, 2001
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Much too talky.
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Jul 12, 2012
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Sarah Polley, whose stunning drama Away From Her (2006) chronicled the separation of a husband and wife in their 60s, turns her attention to a married couple in their 20s (Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams) and the woman's wrenching love affair with their neighbor across the street (Luke Kirby).
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama
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Sep 30, 2005
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Writer-director Andrew Wagner cast his own family in this comic road movie, shooting with a single digital camera as his overbearing mother, Judy, and irascible father, Allen, drive from New York to Los Angeles to pay him a visit.
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Oct 6, 2006
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Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Go Further) may be more a fan of pop culture than a critic, but he's also a closet art historian, as evidenced by this documentary about the eccentric and influential hot-rod designer and outsider artist Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Oliver Stone directs a taut and effective drama about an aggressive radio talk-show host and the hatred he manages to project at and elicit from his call-in listeners.
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Nov 13, 2001
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Richard Linklater's edgy, gripping 2001 feature, adapted from a Stephen Belber play, unfolds in real time in a motel room.
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Feb 14, 2013
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Even after two viewings I can’t make head or tails of the corporate-crime intrigue at the periphery of this South Korean drama.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Actress and screenwriter Agnes Jaoui makes her directorial debut with this poignant 2000 comedy about the difficulties of getting beyond one's own social circle.
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Mar 27, 2008
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Destined for cult status, this wild horror comedy by Mitchell Lichtenstein (son of pop-art painter Roy Lichtenstein) updates the vagina dentata myth to the modern-day cultural minefield of teen sexuality.
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Jul 10, 2008
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"Wait, there's more," cautions a character in this French mystery (2006) after peeling away numerous layers of intrigue—and he's not kidding.
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Oct 26, 1985
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James Cameron's resourceful low-budget thriller (1984) recalls the canny exploitation work of the old New World Pictures.
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May 11, 2007
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This bizarre 1958 western was the last film of one of the great low-budget stylists, Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy, My Name Is Julia Ross).
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Oct 26, 1985
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Apart from Crumb, this film by Steven M. Martin may be the best American documentary feature of 1994.
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Jun 7, 1985
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Raoul Walsh graduated from B westerns to the Hollywood front line with this extravagant 1924 Douglas Fairbanks vehicle, opulently produced by what was then Fairbanks's own company, United Artists.
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