It's a Small World After All

YOUNG ADAM
April 16

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Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan star as New York City divorce lawyers who fall in love. Moore may be the most interesting actress in Hollywood, but she'll be hard-pressed to salvage this hackneyed rom-com setup. Peter Howitt (Sliding Doors) directs.

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Guy Maddin's deliriously retro visuals drive this witty satire of American hubris, set in 1933 Winnipeg. In what may be her best role since Blue Velvet, Isabella Rossellini plays a wealthy beer baroness who stages a global competition to determine which nation's music truly deserves to be called the most melancholy.

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Those Olsen twins will have more than a minute during their stint at NYU, but they only have a day in this formula comedy, where they play Long Island teens—a nerd (Ashley) and a rebel (Mary-Kate)—working out their differences on a day off from school.

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Bram Stoker's Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman)—not a geezer intellectual this time around—bumps heads with Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man. He'd probably take on the Mummy, too, if Stephen Sommers hadn't already directed two Mummy movies.

COFFEE AND CIGARETTES
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Jim Jarmusch's new film consists of a series of vignettes loosely organized around . . . coffee and cigarettes. A number of former Jarmusch collaborators make appearances, including Roberto Benigni, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, and Ghost Dog soundtrack producer RZA.

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Das Boot helmer Wolfgang Petersen sets off to sea again, this time for an ambitious adaptation of The Iliad. The script, promisingly, is by 25th Hour's David Benioff, and the trailer's shot of the thousand ships gave us chills. But Brad Pitt as Achilles? Ye gods!

S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE
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After possibly bringing Western civilization to a new cultural low with the ludicrous Mel Gibson Revolutionary War drama The Patriot, director Roland Emmerich turns to a considerably more probable scenario in this near-future-set disaster movie with Dennis Quaid as a climatologist trying to save the earth from global warming.

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After winning a large settlement in a lawsuit, a man uses the money to start the first all-black airline, NWA. Would you get on a plane with Snoop Dogg as the pilot? Would you get on a plane with Tom Arnold as a passenger?

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Not to be confused with Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf, Michael Haneke's newest film reunites him with Piano Teacher star Isabelle Huppert. Set in the aftermath of some unexplained disaster, the film chronicles Huppert's efforts to keep herself and her two children alive in the French countryside.