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Blink Twice: Don’t You Forget About Me
The original title of Blink Twice was supposed to be Pussy Island, but the Motion Picture Association of America wouldn’t allow it. While they...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2009
Part of the fun of this job is scoping out new talent, so here’s my favorite films of 2009 directed by first-time feature filmmakers....
Challengers: Love Match
The astronomy guys have this thing called the three-body problem, which you may have heard of lately because it gave its name to a...
When Fairy Met Sally: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
When Guillermo del Toro pronounces an old movie as the scariest thing he’s ever seen and announces plans to remake it, you sit up...
Film Shorts
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Amelia (PG) Hilary Swank stars in Mira Nair's biography of the aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Also with Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson,...
Adolescent Dramas
There’s never a shortage of films about coming of age. Everyone comes of age, after all, and such films can often be done cheaply,...
Oh, What a Biutiful Mess
In December, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association named Biutiful the best foreign language film of 2010. Last week, the movie picked up Oscar...
Film Shorts
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years (NR) Ron Howard’s documentary about the band during the years 1963-66. Starring Elvis Costello,...
The Bali/Julia Project: Eat Pray Love
I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s polarizing memoir Eat, Pray, Love and found it as annoying as many others did, though I couldn’t help but wonder...
Problem Kids
It’s fun to extol good movies and trash bad ones, but an awful lot of stuff falls in between those poles.
So it happens with...
