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Sep 18, 2012
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Near the end of this engrossing documentary, when dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is asked what makes him so fearless in challenging the state, he turns the question on its head, insisting that he acts only because he's unusually fearful.
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Jun 10, 2013
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One sequel that surpasses the original.
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Dec 23, 2010
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"I've never been closer to anyone, and I don't know you at all," a young woman (Kirsten Dunst) tells her creepy, remote husband (Ryan Gosling) in this strange and purposely frustrating crime drama.
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Oct 4, 2007
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Director Darryl Roberts (How U Like Me Now) makes his feature documentary debut (2007) with this unexpectedly witty and affecting exposé of the American beauty industry.
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May 30, 2013
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Not for the faint of heart, this odd, hair-raising horror movie bristles with unsettling ideas.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Wisconsin filmmaker Mark Borchardt tries to raise money for a feature by finishing a short called Coven in this intimate 1999 documentary directed and shot by Chris Smith (American Job).
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Oct 26, 1985
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Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood took time out from their popular series of Universal programmers for this very personal exercise in American gothic (1971)—one that should have played the art houses rather than the drive-ins.
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Oct 12, 1999
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This outrageous comic fantasy may not sustain its brilliance, but it keeps cooking for so much of that time that I don't have many complaints.
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Sep 5, 2009
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Probably the Coen brothers' most enjoyable movie—glittering with imagination, cleverness, and filmmaking skill—though, as in their other films, the warm feelings they generate around a couple of salt-of-the-earth types don't apply to anyone else in the cast: you might as well be scraping them off your shoe.
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Jan 27, 2011
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Javier Bardem cuts a tragic figure as a dying Barcelona lowlife who traffics in illegal immigrants and communes with the dead.
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- by Andrea Gronvall
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Tags: Drama
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Apr 18, 2003
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It's personal all right, also solipsistic, intransigent, and occasionally ridiculous.
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Aug 14, 2009
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The brilliant video put-on artist Sacha Baron Cohen (Da Ali G Show) mounts his first big-screen assault on the U.S.
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Feb 18, 2015
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Wes Anderson's 1996 first feature (before Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums) is fresh, character driven, often funny, and unfashionably upbeat (as well as offbeat).
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- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Tags: Comedy
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Oct 20, 2005
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Most film versions of Dracula have been based not on the 1897 novel but on the 1927 stage adaptation.
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- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Tags: Horror
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Oct 26, 1985
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Terry Gilliam's ferociously creative black comedy (1985) is filled with wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention—every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight.
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