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Michael Atkinson
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Vivid and Zesty: Old-School Feminist Emancipation -
September 26, 2006
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Breathless Pop Filmmaking -
September 26, 2006
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Life Is Sweet -
September 26, 2006
With its seventh installment, Michael Apted's drama of aging approaches a half-century
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Satanic Verses -
September 26, 2006
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'. . . So Goes the Nation' -
September 26, 2006
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Blow Up -
September 19, 2006
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Redistributing the Wealth -
September 19, 2006
NYFF's 31-film ode to Janus a veritable Cinema 101
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'Be With Me' -
September 19, 2006
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A Neverending Story–ish Saga -
September 19, 2006
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Inconvenient Truths -
September 12, 2006
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Populist Mechanics -
September 12, 2006
Second screen adaptation of all-American mega-fiction drowns in ponderous metaphors
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'Sólo Con Tu Pareja' -
September 12, 2006
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Prague Sprung -
September 5, 2006
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'The Ground Truth' -
September 5, 2006
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'Keeping Mum' -
September 5, 2006
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Night Watch -
August 29, 2006
Modest, humane indie observes NYC's graveyard shift
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Panic Womb -
August 29, 2006
Old familiar misogyny poisons Neil LaBute's cult-thriller remake
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Hang Time -
August 29, 2006
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'Mizoguchi' -
August 29, 2006
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'Le Petit Lieutenant' -
August 29, 2006
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'Saint of 9/11' -
August 29, 2006
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The Reign and Downfall of Alberto Fujimori -
August 29, 2006
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Fever Dream -
August 22, 2006
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'Looking for Kitty' -
August 22, 2006
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A Chinese Adventure Eco-Saga -
August 22, 2006
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Starving Artist -
August 15, 2006
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A Deft Shadow of Noir Logic -
August 15, 2006
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A Savory Psychodrama -
August 15, 2006
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About a Boi -
August 15, 2006
OutKast's Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the old South
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'10th & Wolf' -
August 15, 2006
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Raw Deals -
August 8, 2006
Epic Danish drug trilogy is alive with detail from dope deals to chop shops
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Salvation Army -
August 8, 2006
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A Dreamy Voyage -
August 8, 2006
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A Hypnotic Samurai Film -
August 8, 2006
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A Tale of Two Pedros -
August 1, 2006
An Almodóvar retrospective plays it safe and irons out the kinks
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Back to the Future -
August 1, 2006
Lush fantasy retro uncovers Soviet alien history
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Pillow Talk -
August 1, 2006
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'Calvaire (The Ordeal)' -
August 1, 2006
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'The Bridesmaid' -
July 25, 2006
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The Century's Strangest Act of Pop Culture -
July 25, 2006
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Leaving Heel Marks on Our Consciousness -
July 25, 2006
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Unembedded -
July 25, 2006
The Iraq war finally gets its definitive documentary
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Working-Class Zero -
July 18, 2006
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'John Tucker Must Die' -
July 18, 2006
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'Raising Hell: Sam Peckinpah' -
July 18, 2006
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Giant Undulating Tales From Sweden -
July 11, 2006
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The Cold War's Most Sociopolitically Vital Film -
July 11, 2006
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The Dead Pool -
July 11, 2006
Master of the nonsensical outdoes himself in cock-and-bull bedtime story
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'Azumi' -
July 11, 2006
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Boxing Days -
July 4, 2006
Enlightenment meets whup-ass in martial arts retro
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Old Joy -
July 4, 2006
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'71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance' -
July 4, 2006
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A Haunted-House Lark Gone Fetid -
July 4, 2006
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He's No Angel -
July 4, 2006
Old Mamet one-act about masculine indulgence revived as actors' showcase
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A Memoir of a Lost Kingdom -
July 4, 2006
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The Art of War -
July 4, 2006
Dusted-off WWII drama nails the period details
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Wrinkles in Time -
July 4, 2006
Poetic French image-maker moves on to high-toned soaps
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Rigor Mortis -
June 27, 2006
Grave Dutch mopefest a little too restrained
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The Life Aquatic -
June 27, 2006
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An Unforgettable Aura of Dislocation -
June 27, 2006
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Treasure Chest -
June 27, 2006
Well-oiled assembly-line sequel is pure make-believe
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Learning Channel -
June 20, 2006
Latest Sandler vehicle evolves into an improbable cultural critique
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Room Serviceable -
June 20, 2006
Suite-natured Sundance favorite founders on indie clichés
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'The Great Yokai War' -
June 20, 2006
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A Gold-Plated Rorschach Plot -
June 20, 2006
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Remember the Industrial Workers of the World? -
June 20, 2006
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School Daze -
June 20, 2006
Slackjawed sketch comedy adaptation struggles on the big screen
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Prime Cut -
June 13, 2006
Tireless Japanese veteran evokes John Ford with an elegiac samurai story
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French Kicks -
June 13, 2006
Revisiting a post–New Wave director's fixations with Gallic gamines and classic lit
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A Real Young Girl -
June 13, 2006
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A Rare Serving of Adept Regional Indie Cinema -
June 13, 2006
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A True New Yawk Saga -
June 13, 2006
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'Land of the Blind' -
June 6, 2006
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Pulp Fictions -
June 6, 2006
Eclectic Asian series whips up crazed genre workouts and hallucinatory unease
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Love Letters -
June 6, 2006
Crossword doc searches for a plot amid the little numbered boxes
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Sin City -
June 6, 2006
Grungy Brazilian love triangle thick with clichés
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Built Ford Tough -
May 30, 2006
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An Incisive Dissection of Culture Shock -
May 30, 2006
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Unshakable Gotham Vibe -
May 30, 2006
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Progressive Scan -
May 30, 2006
In fragments and on the edge, the HRWIFF remains New York's most vital fest
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Shohei Imamura, 1926–2006 -
May 30, 2006
A ballad for the late, great New Wave master
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Bruising My Religion -
May 23, 2006
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'Coastlines' -
May 23, 2006
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'Long Knives Night/ Reporting From the Rabbit Hutch' -
May 23, 2006
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A Vast National Story Forgotten -
May 23, 2006
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Power-Grabbing Chaos -
May 23, 2006
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Casualties of War -
May 23, 2006
An ex–CIA op's martyrdom analysis, plus some war propaganda
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Shear Madness -
May 16, 2006
Cosmic marital drama wonders, to shave or not to shave?
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Since Otar Left -
May 16, 2006
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'Favela Rising' -
May 16, 2006
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'What Is a Man Without a Mustache?' -
May 16, 2006
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Feverishly Beloved and Still Underseen -
May 16, 2006
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Louvre Story -
May 16, 2006
Hanks and Howard turn bestselling Christian skullduggery into long-winded History Channel special
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Domestic Violence -
May 9, 2006
Guess who's coming to dinner? Your boss's unstable wife and a host of hauntings
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'The King' -
May 9, 2006
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Cold Case -
May 9, 2006
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Back in the USSR -
May 9, 2006
Remembering the Soviet new wave's glamorous first couple
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A Dense World of Recurrences -
May 9, 2006
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Just Add Water -
May 2, 2006
Mechanical disaster-movie remake removes old people, inserts expensive fireballs
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Rudy Awakening -
May 2, 2006
Mr. Giuliani wants to go to Washington; doc protests
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'Cartoons: No Laughing Matter?' -
May 2, 2006
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Will Occupy Your Skull Like a Siege of Huns -
May 2, 2006
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Small Town Anomie and Liquored Exhaustion -
May 2, 2006
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Partial Arts -
April 25, 2006
Former Fifth-Gen master proves we don't need another Hero
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A Loony Visionary's Alternate Realities -
April 25, 2006
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Modern Love and Its Discontents -
April 25, 2006
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Pickup on Houston Street -
April 25, 2006
Killer B's: Sprawling retro of lesser-known noirs celebrates an ultra-gritty nihilism
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Banned in the Middle East -
April 25, 2006
What does it take to get censored in Syria, anyway?
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Multiple Versions of Welles's Unfinished Symphony, With Footnotes -
April 18, 2006
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New York African Film Festival -
April 18, 2006
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'The Lost City' -
April 18, 2006
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Love in Vein -
April 18, 2006
Maggie Cheung radiant as ever in addiction portrait
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The End of Violence -
April 18, 2006
Vengeance is mined one last time as Park concludes his viscerally traumatic trilogy
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Manufactured Images and the Origins of Reality Television -
April 11, 2006
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'Stolen' -
April 11, 2006
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'Mongolian Ping Pong' -
April 11, 2006
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Before There Was 'Saturday Night Live' -
April 11, 2006
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The Most Luxurious Launch of K-Horror -
April 11, 2006
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On Dangerous Ground -
April 4, 2006
Extreme landscapes engulf eco-warriors in visceral Chinese adventure saga
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Catherine the Great -
April 4, 2006
A pair of classics starring a '60s goddess of light
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Pre-Mortem -
April 4, 2006
Morbid romantic dramedy inspires cancer awareness
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For Italian New Wave Social Resonance, Pick Pocket -
April 4, 2006
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'Days of Heaven' -
April 4, 2006
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Nightmares of TV's Messy Adolescence -
April 4, 2006
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Down for the Count -
March 28, 2006
Better luck tomorrow: Bubbly cast and clever banter can't overcome blatant Tarantinoisms
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The Longest Day -
March 28, 2006
Feel-good drama drowns in broguey sentimentality
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Film -
March 28, 2006
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Bees' Season: A Forgotten Classic of the Czech New Wave -
March 28, 2006
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Louise Brooks's Swan Song to Stardom -
March 28, 2006
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A Radioactive Pulp Fossil -
March 28, 2006
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In a Lonely Place -
March 21, 2006
High school confidential: Recasting hard-boiled cliches as metaphor for teenage isolation
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'Iowa' -
March 21, 2006
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'Toro Negro' -
March 21, 2006
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'Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy' -
March 21, 2006
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Expanding the Palette of Pre-Noir -
March 21, 2006
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A Morass of Modern Anxieties -
March 21, 2006
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Unsung Visions from a Softcore Surrealist -
March 14, 2006
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Plains Lounge -
March 14, 2006
You can't go home again: Buscemi's miserablist home movie tracks sullen scribe's homecoming
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'American Gun' -
March 14, 2006
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Shadows and Fog Aplenty in New Crop of Film Noir Classics -
March 14, 2006
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'Puzzlehead' -
March 14, 2006
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'The Devil's Miner' -
March 7, 2006
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'Don't Tell' -
March 7, 2006
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Tar Nation -
March 7, 2006
Lacking Lung Power, Butt-Free Cigarette Satire Wheezes Through One-Liners
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Barroom Sprawl -
March 7, 2006
Touristy Americana in Wenders post-western
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Road to Dystopia -
March 7, 2006
Brave new worlds from We to V: A brief history of political future shocks
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Sexual Surrealism in a Maverick Filmmaker's Defiant Trilogy -
March 7, 2006
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Prophecies Fulfilled in a Cerebral, Caustic American Classic -
February 28, 2006
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Déjà Vu -
February 28, 2006
Sexual mismatches and menopausal horror in French series
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A Whimsical Stand Against Corporate Animation -
February 28, 2006
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Lazy Sunday -
February 28, 2006
Game boys (and girl) shoot down A.D.D. in comedy of inertia
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Bringing Out the Dead -
February 28, 2006
The hills are alive with distended craniums and shrill overacting in craven Craven remake
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Some Kind of Horror Show -
February 28, 2006
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'Al Otro Lado' -
February 21, 2006
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Media Blackout on Provocative Director Lifts -
February 21, 2006
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Man's Favorite Sport -
February 21, 2006
Lonely fools booze, fuck, and fail to connect in Korean New Waver's first stateside release
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Gasoline on Fire: Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh -
February 21, 2006
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Do the Wright Thing -
February 21, 2006
Career woman and taxi driver explore post–9-11 jitters
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The Grandest—and Most Existential—of Colonialist Epics -
February 21, 2006
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Aging Hollywood Hack Attempts Clumsy B Movie -
February 21, 2006
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To Reality and Back: Classic and Contemporary French Documentaries -
February 21, 2006
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Flabby White Guys Wrestling With Racism -
February 14, 2006
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Men at Work -
February 14, 2006
Coal, chemicals, and campaigning: They're dirty jobs, but someone has to document them
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Sand and Sun -
February 14, 2006
Dunes falling, Orpheus rising: Postwar imports return
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Deeper Throat -
February 7, 2006
A Mexican masterpiece of formal intelligence and unstable perspectives, plus blow jobs
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The Far Side of the World -
February 7, 2006
Idiosyncratic annual sampling ranges from post-Mao China to sleepy Sri Lanka
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Intimate Bach Piece Finds the Primal Essence of Cinema -
February 7, 2006
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A Unique Puppet-Theater Universe -
February 7, 2006
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What's Up, Docs: MOMA's Sixth Annual Nonfiction Festival -
January 31, 2006
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Fire Bomb -
January 31, 2006
The writing's on the Wall: Ford limps and wheezes through latest action thriller
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'La Scorta' -
January 24, 2006
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'What the Bleep!? Down the Rabbit Hole' -
January 24, 2006
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A Black-Velvet Comedy for Modern Tweens -
January 24, 2006
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The Newer World: Malick Cuts Fat, Keeps Movie Intact -
January 17, 2006
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Paving the Way for the 'Anti-Western' -
January 17, 2006
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Binge-Drinking and Despair in Hong's Dour Love Triangle -
January 17, 2006
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Welcome to the Doll Factory -
January 17, 2006
Soderbergh doesn't condescend to middle America, doesn't do much of anything else either
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Buzzworthy -
January 17, 2006
The kids and the Whale: An unprolific Spanish perfectionist's monstrously dreamy debut
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Film -
January 10, 2006
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Latest Peru Doc Suffers From Fujimori's Cult of Personality -
January 10, 2006
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Werner Herzog's Bizarre and Hypnotic Film -
January 10, 2006
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German Alpine Fantasies Released -
January 10, 2006
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Play it Again Sam: Testicular Havoc in Blood-Stained Box Set -
January 10, 2006
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Secret Agent: Rohmer's Espionage Thriller Debuts on DVD -
January 3, 2006
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Me, Myself & Iréne -
January 3, 2006
Charming French road trip offers scattershot whimsy, and one unforgettable performance
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Revival Tent: Preacher Lies to Choir, Choir Eats it Up -
January 3, 2006
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Methodical Doc Untangles Peru's Knotty History of Violence -
January 3, 2006
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Fritz Lang's Obscure Gothic-Noir -
January 3, 2006
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