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21st Gotham Noms: Martha Marcy May Marlene Grabs 3 Noms But No Best Feature Kudo
October 20, 2011Continuing with their policy of spreading the joy in all categories, the Gotham independent film award...
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Review: The Catechism Cataclysm
October 19, 2011"It’s rare that a filmmaker’s voice can come through so distinctly these days. There aren’t really...
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The Catechism Cataclysm | Review
October 19, 2011No Little Task: Rohal's Sophomore Film Avoids Classification
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Review: Criterion Collection: Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys [Blu-ray]
October 18, 2011"While starkly arid humor has always been a Kaurismaki hallmark, these films lean more toward the...
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Review: Criterion Collection: Four Feathers [Blu-ray]
October 18, 2011"While it’s inherently unfair to apply today’s standards to a screenplay of this vintage, even the...
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Criterion Collection: Four Feathers [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
October 18, 2011"While it’s inherently unfair to apply today’s standards to a screenplay of this vintage, even the...
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Criterion Collection: Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
October 18, 2011"While starkly arid humor has always been a Kaurismaki hallmark, these films lean more toward the...
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Review: Policeman
October 17, 2011"Lapid is far from taking sides. He is warily critical of both the cops’ and the...
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Policeman | Review
October 17, 2011Israeli vs. Israeli terrorist drama is a timely, thrilling provocation
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Review: The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito)
October 14, 2011"Rejoice in the fact that one of world cinema’s great artists is doing anything but resting...
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Review: Father of Invention
October 14, 2011"The tagline for the new Kevin Spacey comedy Father of Invention reads, “A world of ideas,...
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Review: The Woman
October 14, 2011"...Lucky McKee's fourth feature film tries to reverse the dynamic the title suggests and to pose...
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The Greater Good | Review
October 14, 2011A Solid Injection of Heedful Warnings Amidst the long line of doctors and scientists stating their...
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The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito) | Review
October 14, 2011Plastic surgery meets spiritual rebirth in Almodovar’s demented, delightful fable
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Review: Bombay Beach
October 13, 2011Bombay Beach, is a wonderful hybrid documentary that follows the lives of three of the town's...
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Review: The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father CIA Spymaster William Colby
October 13, 2011"Documentary filmmaker Carl Colby exploits family skeletons with his latest effort, The Man Nobody Knew: In...
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49th NYF: Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ a Surprisingly Personal Journey into 3D
October 13, 2011Try to resist reading anything about Martin Scorsese’s big-budget 3D kids movie -- and latest masterpiece...
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Bombay Beach | Review
October 13, 2011Holiday in the Salton: Alma Har'el's Lyrical Doc Hydrid is Pro Family
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The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father CIA Spymaster William Colby | Review
October 13, 2011A Spy Still Out In The Cold
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Review: My Week with Marilyn
October 12, 2011"Unwilling to offend or alienate even a single paying customer, the filmmakers have scientifically extracted every...
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In the Pipeline: Lucy Mulloy’s Una Noche
October 12, 2011I have spent a lot of time in Cuba, so it didn’t feel foreign. With the...
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Review: To Be Heard
October 12, 2011"Hard times yield great beauty in the hands of immense creative beings. To Be Heard manages...
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To Be Heard | Review
October 12, 2011Slam Poetry - Inspiring Teens To Find Themselves Through Language
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Review: Terri (Blu-ray)
October 11, 2011"2011 Sundance entry Terri is a low-key American indie all about the struggles of an obese...
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Review: Criterion Collection: Harakiri [Blu-ray]
October 11, 2011"Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1963, Masaki Kobayashi’s Harakiri is an elegantly...
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DVD Review: The Red Chapel
October 11, 2011"The Red Chapel is a cold, creepy and at times astonishing documentary that manages to survive...
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The Red Chapel | DVD Review
October 11, 2011"The Red Chapel is a cold, creepy and at times astonishing documentary that manages to survive...
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Criterion Collection: Harakiri [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
October 11, 2011"Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1963, Masaki Kobayashi’s Harakiri is an elegantly...
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Terri (Blu-ray) | DVD Review
October 11, 2011"2011 Sundance entry Terri is a low-key American indie all about the struggles of an obese...
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Review: Blackthorn
October 6, 2011"Mateo Gil’s latest film, Blackthorn, which asserts that Butch Cassidy survived that blasted Bolivian shoot-out at...
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Review: The Ides of March
October 6, 2011"A thriller of this sort probably didn't need to escalate to the level of melodrama that...
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The Ides of March | Review
October 6, 2011Non-partisan political thriller packs riveting performances, gives little insight into dog-eat-dog politics
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Tracking Shot October 2011: Kim Jee-woon, Jonathan Glazer and Zal Batmanglij
October 4, 2011At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a handful of projects that are...
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Review: J’aime regarder les filles
October 4, 2011"Writer/director Frédéric Louf's feature debut is a cut above the typical teen dramedy, employing awkward realism,...
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Blu-Ray Review: Le Quattro Volte
October 4, 2011"The value of Le Quattro Volte consists in the way that it enamors the willing viewer...
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DVD Review: The Beaver
October 4, 2011"If Foster were not the person at the helm, we might suppose this was some bizarre...
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Review: Hell and Back Again
October 4, 2011First time director Danfung Dennis spent a number of months embedded with a 35 man US...
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Le Quattro Volte | DVD Review
October 4, 2011"The value of Le Quattro Volte consists in the way that it enamors the willing viewer...