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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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