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Michael Atkinson

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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Vivid and Zesty: Old-School Feminist Emancipation - September 26, 2006

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Breathless Pop Filmmaking - 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
Film By Michael Atkinson
'Sólo Con Tu Pareja' - September 12, 2006

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'Keeping Mum' - September 5, 2006

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Prague Sprung - September 5, 2006

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'The Ground Truth' - September 5, 2006

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Night Watch - August 29, 2006
Modest, humane indie observes NYC's graveyard shift
Film By Michael Atkinson
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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'10th & Wolf' - August 15, 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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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
Film By Michael Atkinson
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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Unembedded - July 25, 2006
The Iraq war finally gets its definitive documentary
Film By Michael Atkinson
'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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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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The Dead Pool - July 11, 2006
Master of the nonsensical outdoes himself in cock-and-bull bedtime story
Film By Michael Atkinson
'Azumi' - July 11, 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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He's No Angel - July 4, 2006
Old Mamet one-act about masculine indulgence revived as actors' showcase
Film By Michael Atkinson
The Art of War - July 4, 2006
Dusted-off WWII drama nails the period details
Film By Michael Atkinson
Wrinkles in Time - July 4, 2006
Poetic French image-maker moves on to high-toned soaps
Film By Michael Atkinson
Boxing Days - July 4, 2006
Enlightenment meets whup-ass in martial arts retro
Film By Michael Atkinson
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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A Memoir of a Lost Kingdom - July 4, 2006

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Treasure Chest - June 27, 2006
Well-oiled assembly-line sequel is pure make-believe
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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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School Daze - June 20, 2006
Slackjawed sketch comedy adaptation struggles on the big screen
Film By Michael Atkinson
Learning Channel - June 20, 2006
Latest Sandler vehicle evolves into an improbable cultural critique
Film By Michael Atkinson
Room Serviceable - June 20, 2006
Suite-natured Sundance favorite founders on indie clichés
Film By Michael Atkinson
'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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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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Pulp Fictions - June 6, 2006
Eclectic Asian series whips up crazed genre workouts and hallucinatory unease
Film By Michael Atkinson
Love Letters - June 6, 2006
Crossword doc searches for a plot amid the little numbered boxes
Film By Michael Atkinson
Sin City - June 6, 2006
Grungy Brazilian love triangle thick with clichés
Film By Michael Atkinson
'Land of the Blind' - June 6, 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
Film By Michael Atkinson
Shohei Imamura, 1926–2006 - May 30, 2006
A ballad for the late, great New Wave master
Film By Michael Atkinson
Built Ford Tough - May 30, 2006

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An Incisive Dissection of Culture Shock - May 30, 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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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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Louvre Story - May 16, 2006
Hanks and Howard turn bestselling Christian skullduggery into long-winded History Channel special
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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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Domestic Violence - May 9, 2006
Guess who's coming to dinner? Your boss's unstable wife and a host of hauntings
Film By Michael Atkinson
'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
Film By Michael Atkinson
'Cartoons: No Laughing Matter?' - May 2, 2006

Tracking Shots By Michael Atkinson
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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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
Film By Michael Atkinson
Banned in the Middle East - April 25, 2006
What does it take to get censored in Syria, anyway?
Film By Michael Atkinson
Partial Arts - April 25, 2006
Former Fifth-Gen master proves we don't need another Hero
Film By Michael Atkinson
A Loony Visionary's Alternate Realities - April 25, 2006

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'The Lost City' - April 18, 2006

Tracking Shots By Michael Atkinson
Love in Vein - April 18, 2006
Maggie Cheung radiant as ever in addiction portrait
Film By Michael Atkinson
The End of Violence - April 18, 2006
Vengeance is mined one last time as Park concludes his viscerally traumatic trilogy
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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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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
Film By Michael Atkinson
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
Film By Michael Atkinson
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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A Radioactive Pulp Fossil - March 28, 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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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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In a Lonely Place - March 21, 2006
High school confidential: Recasting hard-boiled cliches as metaphor for teenage isolation
Film By Michael Atkinson
'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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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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Unsung Visions from a Softcore Surrealist - March 14, 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
Film By Michael Atkinson
Sexual Surrealism in a Maverick Filmmaker's Defiant Trilogy - March 7, 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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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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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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To Reality and Back: Classic and Contemporary French Documentaries - February 21, 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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Gasoline on Fire: Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh - 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
Film By Michael Atkinson
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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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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Flabby White Guys Wrestling With Racism - February 14, 2006

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Deeper Throat - February 7, 2006
A Mexican masterpiece of formal intelligence and unstable perspectives, plus blow jobs
Film By Michael Atkinson
The Far Side of the World - February 7, 2006
Idiosyncratic annual sampling ranges from post-Mao China to sleepy Sri Lanka
Film By Michael Atkinson
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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Fire Bomb - January 31, 2006
The writing's on the Wall: Ford limps and wheezes through latest action thriller
Film By Michael Atkinson
What's Up, Docs: MOMA's Sixth Annual Nonfiction Festival - January 31, 2006

Film By Michael Atkinson
'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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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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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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Play it Again Sam: Testicular Havoc in Blood-Stained Box Set - January 10, 2006

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Film - January 10, 2006

Film By Michael Atkinson
Latest Peru Doc Suffers From Fujimori's Cult of Personality - January 10, 2006

Film By Michael Atkinson
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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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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