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Film Review: State 194
Clear-headed and utterly reasonable and engrossing doc suggesting why Israel and the Palestinians cannot finally consummate the long-talked-about, generally accepted two-state solution to Middle East antagonism. More »
Film Review: The English Teacher
This theatre-centric frolic has a clever, pleasing start, but sadly degenerates into bland formula stuff. More »
Film Review: Black Rock
Nifty little genre gem with its share of surprises has three damsel campers in distress on an isolated island they didn’t know they’d be sharing with three hunters back from overseas battle and with too much fight left in them. More »
Film Review: Hating Breitbart
Love him or hate him, this documentary about the polarizing figure leaves you wanting more substance. More »
Film Review: 33 Postcards
The “oh-so-innocent waif and big old baddie” odd-couple formula dates back to D.W. Griffith, but this muddled effort does nothing to merit its questionable revival. More »
Film Review: Augustine
A lushly filmed, fascinating true story about the relationship between a groundbreaking French doctor and his “hysteric” female patient buries itself with a simplistic approach and deadly-dull dialogue. More »
Film Review: Elemental
Three eco-activists walk it like they talk it, in a documentary that doesn’t have to preach or overload us with statistics to get its message across. Meanwhile, its sobering images of despoiled natural resources vividly speak for themselves. More »
Film Review: Bidder 70
The story of a brave political activist makes for a documentary more inspiring than informative. More »
Film Review: The Fruit Hunters
Too bad Carmen Miranda isn’t around to see this fetching, revealing doc about her favorite accessory. More »
Film Review: Pieta
Viewers will keep their eyes closed for most of this violent but ultimately moving Korean film. More »
Film Review: Becoming Traviata
A clumsy and sadly missed opportunity to capture the creation of a great opera role by a great singer. More »
Film Review: Stories We Tell
A genre-twisting documentary with a fictional vibe that playfully bares the elusive truths about a family of storytellers. More »
Film Review: Venus and Serena
Documentary about the phenomenal tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams sees them as women as well as phenomenon. More »
Film Review: Sightseers
A pair of misfit lovers—prickly loner Chris and painfully introverted Tina—embark on a quirky road trip that includes stops at such roadside attractions as a museum of pencil-making, gradually revealing a dark side to their apparently harmless eccentricities. More »
Film Review: He's Way More Famous Than You
Anything-goes, loopily autobiographical romp about the travails of a desperate actress it would be a nightmare to encounter in real life. But haven’t we all, on some level? More »
Film Review: Pilgrim Song
Tedium on the Trail could be the alternative title for this logy trek through the woods. More »
Film Review: Java Heat
The perfect macho date movie for that Type A juicehead in your life, marked by Mickey Rourke’s ever-accelerating descent into Lon Chaney-esque grotesqueness. More »
Film Review: No One Lives
Blood may be thicker than water, but it flows just as freely in this artistically bankrupt thriller. More »
Film Review: Assault on Wall Street
This zeitgeist-tapping revenge fantasy doesn't deliver enough guilty pleasures. More »
Film Review: Released
Documentary recording a theatrical production of four ex-convicts telling their redemption stories, produced by the organization that helped them. More »
Film Review: The Girls in the Band
This film is an important step toward repairing broken links and resurrecting almost a century of music and the women who made it. More »
Film Review: And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
Despite appealing performances, this comedy suffers from its derivative premise. More »
Film Review: Three Sisters
Chinese rural poverty in a remote hillside village is exhaustively chronicled over two-and-a-half taxing but ultimately rewarding hours. More »
Film Review: One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Dass
Worshipful documentary about rocker turned guru Krishna Das will basically appeal to the already—and very, very happily so—converted. More »
Film Review: Generation Um...
A single, plotless day in New York in the company of Keanu Reeves feels like a life sentence. More »
Film Review: What Maisie Knew
Directing partners Scott McGehee and David Siegel, who triumphed with 2001’s The Deep End, go more mainstream and downstream with this modern-day, loose riff on Henry James’ late-19th-century novel. More »
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