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The Blind Side

By Melissa Anderson

Thursday, November 19

Another poor, massive, uneducated African-American teenager lumbers onto screens this month, two weeks after Precious and obviously timed as a... More >>
An Education

By SCOTT FOUNDAS

Thursday, November 19

The film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she received in the "university of life" while studying in the... More >>
Planet 51

By Brian Miller

Thursday, November 19

This pleasantly mediocre CG-animation tale lands an astronaut on a distant planet whose inhabitants are living in an innocent, 1950s-style state... More >>
Revanche

By Brian Miller

Thursday, November 19

This heist-gone-wrong flick eschews all the usual excitement of crime movies. Instead, Austrian writer-director Götz Spielmann concentrates... More >>
2012

By CHUCK WILSON

Thursday, November 12

Completing his multi-film vendetta against the world's tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all storms to... More >>
The Damned United

By CHUCK WILSON

Thursday, November 12

We call it soccer, but for the Brits, it's football and it's damn serious business. From 1968 to 1974, Brian Clough (Michael Sheen), a... More >>
Pirate Radio

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, November 12

Seven months after its theatrical release in the U.K. and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore with most of its... More >>
The Men Who Stare at Goats

By J. HOBERMAN

Thursday, November 05

Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking. Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination and 9/11 are all naturally understood... More >>
A Christmas Carol

By ELLA TAYLOR

Thursday, November 05

Nothing if not a meaty yarn, Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a lot more besides, but Robert Zemeckis, a cutting-edge animator (who hasn't told a... More >>
Coco Before Chanel

By Melissa Anderson

Thursday, November 05

Anne Fontaine's Coco Before Chanel gives us belle époque Coco. It opens in 1893 with a grim scene of the 10-year-old waif and her sister... More >>
Fuel

By Brian Miller

Thursday, November 05

This documentary about the virtues of biofuel relies heavily on the life of director-evangelist-narrator Joshua Tickell. Born in Australia,... More >>
Precious

By SCOTT FOUNDAS

Thursday, November 05

In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones, the central figure of director Lee Daniels' Precious, risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto... More >>
A Serious Man

By ELLA TAYLOR

Thursday, October 29

The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may be a Dybbuk... More >>
The Baader Meinhof Complex

By J. HOBERMAN

Thursday, October 29

Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof, Germany's Red Army Faction was the Weather... More >>
The Burning Plain

By Aaron Hillis

Thursday, October 22

Oregon restaurant manager Charlize Theron, prone to submissive promiscuity and self-inflicted violence, sits naked in bed next to her lover. A... More >>
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