Traitor
Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures, the Hollywood intellectual, new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads — prepare...
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By CHUCK WILSON
Published: August 28, 2008
Elegy
It's May-December time again, and for an aging dude who scores one of the ripest young lovelies in cinema (Penelope Cruz), Ben Kingsley looks...
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By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: August 28, 2008
Man on Wire
Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga and entirely engrossing, James Marsh's documentary recounts in Rififi-like detail how a Parisian...
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By Jim Ridley
Published: August 21, 2008
Hamlet 2
Hamlet 2 debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where Focus Features bought it for $10 million, one more overpriced snow bunny sure to...
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By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 21, 2008
The Last Mistress
Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of...
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By J Hoberman
Published: August 21, 2008
The Rocker
Directed by Peter Cattaneo, The Rocker is more or less the Pete Best story — the tale of a poor bastard who gets shitcanned right on the...
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By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 21, 2008
The Edge of Heaven
Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven wears current events on its sleeve, feeling out the state of German-Turkish relations as the former Ottomans...
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By Nick Pinkerton
Published: August 21, 2008
Tropic Thunder
Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies...
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By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 14, 2008
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Leave it to Woody Allen to make a romantic comedy in which all the major players end up either single, homicidal or trapped in safe, boring...
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By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: August 14, 2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
George Lucas, that greedy visionary, is now in the infomercial manufacturing business — the pitchman forever selling rehashed product to...
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By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 14, 2008
Bottle Shock
Ham-fisted and half-assed, this story of the early days of California winemaking (circa 1976, the year "California defeated all Gaul," as Time...
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By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 14, 2008
Brick Lane
Nazneen, a young woman from Bangladesh, is transplanted unwillingly to London and is estranged from her rural home, beloved sister and much older...
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By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: August 14, 2008
Henry Poole Is Here
Diagnosed with an unspecified fatal disease, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) retreats into the numbing sunshine of suburban Los Angeles, buying a...
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By Tim Grierson
Published: August 14, 2008
Pineapple Express
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks...
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By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 07, 2008
American Teen
Nanette Burstein, who made the entertaining Robert Evans documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, spent a year hanging out with a handful of...
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By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: August 07, 2008
Encounters at the End of the World
Werner Herzog has made a career documenting extreme landscapes and courting danger. Encounters at the End of the World chronicles his trip to...
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By J Hoberman
Published: August 07, 2008
Tell No One
François Cluzet simmers beautifully as a Paris pediatrician who, eight years after the brutal murder of his beloved wife...
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By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: July 31, 2008
Brideshead Revisited
This movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's tale of England collapsing under the pressure of social change is much more fun than the 11-hour slog of...
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By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: July 31, 2008
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
For this dreary sequel, Dragonheart director Rob Cohen replaces Stephen Sommers and edges out cheerful extravagance in favor of joyless...
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By Vadim Rizov
Published: July 31, 2008
The Singing Revolution
The title refers to the Estonian independence movement, incubated through the country's stifled years as a Soviet satellite, when the sole outlet...
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By Nick Pinkerton
Published: July 31, 2008
The Wackness
Writer-director Jonathan Levine's mix tape of clichés takes cuts from a dozen or more coming-of-age melodramas and sets them to the...
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By Nick Pinkerton
Published: July 31, 2008
Step Brothers
I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the...
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By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: July 24, 2008
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
My first boyfriend was a juicer. Steroids were the drug of choice at my high school, having washed into the Canadian suburbs in the early '90s on...
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By Michelle Orange
Published: July 24, 2008