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05/09/2008 11:56 PM
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Indiana Jones Is Battling the Long Knives of the Internet
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An online review of the upcoming Indiana Jones movie breaches the Spielberg film?s tight security.
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05/09/2008 12:21 AM
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Movie Review | 'Speed Racer': Gentlemen, Start Your Hot-Hued Engines
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?Speed Racer? sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.
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05/09/2008 12:13 PM
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Movie Review | 'Surfwise': A Family That Surfs to a Beat: Its Own
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?Surfwise? has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but it?s an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.
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05/09/2008 11:53 AM
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Movie Review | 'Before the Rains': After Them the Monsoon: Two Worlds Collide in India
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The ingredients of the Indian director Santosh Sivan?s period piece ?Before the Rains? may be awfully familiar, but the film lends them the force of tragedy.
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05/09/2008 12:50 AM
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Movie Review | 'What Happens in Vegas': Morning Hangover, Spouse and Jackpot
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?What Happens in Vegas,? one of those junky time-wasters that routinely pop up in movie theaters, won?t make you laugh much or at all.
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05/09/2008 02:32 PM
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Movie Review | 'The Tracey Fragments': Average Teenage Girl, Assembling a Life Without a Set of Instructions
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Viewed as the sum of its sad incidents, ?The Tracey Fragments? seems like the kind of adolescent melodrama that has become a staple of young-adult literature.
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05/09/2008 12:46 AM
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Movie Review | 'Turn the River': When Life Gives Lemons, Pick Up a Pool Stick
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?Turn the River? is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working-class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules.
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05/09/2008 12:47 AM
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Movie Review | 'Frontier(s)': After Making It Out of Paris, Finding There?s No Escape
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The real surprise of ?Frontier(s)? is that this creepy, bloody contemporary gross-out also has some ideas, visual and otherwise, wedged among its sanguineous drips.
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05/08/2008 09:19 PM
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Movie Review | 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies': A Dashing Agent in Egypt
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The hero of ?OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies? might be described as a French equivalent of James Bond.
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05/08/2008 09:04 PM
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Movie Review | 'Noise': Aural Examination
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?Noise,? the second part of a projected ?fanatic trilogy,? is shallow and loud.
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05/08/2008 09:48 PM
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Movie Review | 'The Fall': Broken Spirits on the Mend
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Shot piecemeal over the course of four years on locations in 18 countries, ?The Fall? is a genuine labor of love ? and a real bore.
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05/08/2008 10:26 PM
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Movie Review | 'The Memory Thief': The Filling of an Empty Soul
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In ?The Memory Thief,? a strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness, a rootless young man finds meaning in the horrors of a stolen past.
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05/08/2008 10:18 PM
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Movie Review | 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead': Going for the Finger-Licking Gusto
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?Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead? is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.
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05/08/2008 09:27 PM
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Movie Review | 'The Babysitters': From High School Student to Ruthless Madam
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Until it crosses a shadowy line dividing serious comedy from distasteful exploitation, ?The Babysitters? has the makings of an incisive satire of greed and lust in suburbia.
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05/08/2008 09:35 PM
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Movie Review | 'Meet Bill': Finding Your Bliss? Losing Your Mind
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Male midlife crisis presents as pathological self-loathing in ?Meet Bill,? an imperative to which the only sane response is: No thanks.
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05/08/2008 10:09 PM
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Movie Review | 'Vice': A Cop in a Tailspin
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?Vice,? a muddled, disposable crime thriller, has modest merits.
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05/08/2008 10:37 PM
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Movie Review | 'A Previous Engagement': Caught Between Her Passion and Her Pension
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More tired than the fantasy it promotes, ?A Previous Engagement? aims at middle-aged women with the subtlety of a pitch for bladder-control medication.
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05/08/2008 10:48 PM
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Movie Review | 'Unsettled': Youthful Energy and Religious Pain
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Adam Hootnick?s ?Unsettled? makes the political personal, drawing a scattershot yet intimate picture of a nation divided.
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05/08/2008 11:02 PM
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Movie Review | 'Refusenik': A Portrait of Perseverance
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?Refusenik? falls short as entertainment because of the plodding, overly studious approach of the director, Laura Bialis.
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05/08/2008 11:10 PM
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Movie Review | 'Bloodline': A Mystery With No Resolution
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The sensationalistic documentary ?Bloodline? explores the supposition that there exists a lineage traceable to Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
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05/08/2008 11:21 PM
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Movie Review | 'Dilemma': The Sights and Sounds of Oppression
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?Dilemma? is an earnest if schematic attempt to address conditions in Johannesburg under apartheid.
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05/09/2008 12:11 AM
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A Casting Call for Sexy Cars (Hybrids Need Not Apply)
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Vehicles, both hot and not, have been enjoying an on-screen heyday. But Toyota?s Prius has remained something of a novelty act on the big screen.
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05/09/2008 12:12 AM
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Disney?s Newly Crowned Prince, Plucked From a London Stage
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A movie franchise returns with a newly crowned hero: Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian.
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05/09/2008 12:21 AM
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To Reduce Costs, Warner Brothers Closing 2 Film Divisions
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The company said closing Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures was a cost-cutting move rooted in the changing economics of the specialty film business.
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05/08/2008 05:42 AM
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Advertising: Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started
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Microsoft Corporation is underwriting an online movie-making contest to stimulate sales and burnish the reputation of its Windows Vista operating system.
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05/08/2008 07:43 AM
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Stalker's Mother Recalls His Early Days of Promise
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The mother of the man convicted of stalking the actress Uma Thurman recalls her son?s better days.
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05/07/2008 01:59 AM
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Movie Review | 'Battle for Haditha': The Killing of Innocents Faces a Dry-Eyed Dissection
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In ?Battle for Haditha,? the British filmmaker Nick Broomfield revisits a wretched chapter of the war in Iraq.
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12/07/2007 10:07 PM
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A Night Out With Ellen Page: Just a Girl From Halifax
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While many actresses fantasize about wearing Valentino or Zac Posen on the red carpet, Ellen Page has a completely different idea.
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12/15/2007 01:22 AM
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A Knack for Being the Bad Boy
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The British actor Ian McShane opens next week as the patriarch Max in Harold Pinter?s ?Homecoming,? a man-monster of diminishing powers and, of course, many vulgarities.
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12/10/2007 03:29 PM
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Tomorrow?s Oscar Hopefuls Today
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The ?Black List? has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.
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12/05/2007 09:49 PM
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Under a New Watch, Miramax Still Homes in on Awards
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Miramax may be a smaller and calmer organization under Daniel Battsek, but the studio has nonetheless remained in the thick of the awards race.
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12/05/2007 09:33 AM
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For Struggling Black College, Hopes of a Revival
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Wiley College is suddenly feeling the glow of celebrity with the release of a film about the school?s debating team.
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12/07/2007 02:26 AM
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Critic?s Choice: Respect in a Box: Giving John Ford the Major American Artist Treatment
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?Ford at Fox? is a gargantuan boxed set that assembles 24 of the 50-some films John Ford made for the studio that was his most consistent home.
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12/07/2007 02:25 AM
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?Kite Runner? Boys Are Sent to United Arab Emirates
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After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling, the movie studio that is releasing ?The Kite Runner? has whisked to safety four young actors.
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12/03/2007 02:30 PM
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Off the Stripper Pole and Into the Movies
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She no longer dances naked, but the first-time screenwriter Diablo Cody is still exposing herself.
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11/30/2007 12:55 PM
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Down South, Singing the Indie Blues
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Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making movies.
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12/02/2007 12:06 AM
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Film on Mexico?s Disputed ?06 Election Stirs Emotions
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A documentary about last year?s disputed presidential election has drawn big crowds and generated controversy in Mexico.
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11/30/2007 08:35 AM
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Striking Screenwriters Dismiss New Proposals
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The screenwriters called the proposals from producers a ?a massive rollback,? and called on their members to continue their walkout.
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