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  • The Box
    Constrained and restrained, the Donnie Darko director's latest is a hollow package
    Tuesday, November 03
    The secret is out. Warner Bros. waited to unwrap The Box until two days before its opening because, compared to its madcap predecessors—the... More >>
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  • The Men Who Stare at Goats
    We don't mean to sound paranoid, but: Did aliens abduct George Clooney's sense of humor?
    Tuesday, November 03
    Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination, and 9/11 are all naturally... More >>
  • First Lady of Film Alice Guy Blaché at the Whitney
    OFD (original female director) gets some recognition
    Tuesday, November 03
    Largely written out of U.S. film history, cinema's first woman director—as well as producer and studio head—Alice Guy Blaché... More >>
  • Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    Pushing the limits of taste, but locating the heart—and hell—of its heroine's struggle
    Tuesday, November 03
    In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother... More >>
  • Could The Messenger Be a Career High for Harrelson?
    Tuesday, November 03
    Who'd have thought Woody Harrelson would be primed to snag an Oscar nomination just one month after mowing down hordes of flesh-munchers in... More >>
  • La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet and The Red Shoes
    A grand duo of ballet films comes to Film Forum. Well choreographed!
    Tuesday, November 03
    By pure serendipity, two magnificent movies about ballet—one fiction, one fact; one a restored classic, one a brand-new work making its... More >>
  • The Fourth Kind
    Tuesday, November 03
    Seventy-one years after Orson Welles's War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time alien-invasion... More >>
  • A Christmas Carol
    Tuesday, November 03
    It's not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved (and much lampooned)... More >>
  • Collapse
    Tuesday, November 03
    Chris Smith's one-man doc on veteran doomsayer Michael C. Ruppert holds less interest as another sky-is-falling dispatch than as the filmmaker's... More >>
  • Act of God
    Tuesday, November 03
    Jennifer Baichwal follows up her superb 2007 documentary Manufactured Landscapes, about the willful harm done to nature by man, with another in... More >>
  • That Evening Sun
    Tuesday, November 03
    First-time writer-director Scott Teems has given 84-year-old master actor Hal Holbrook a dream role in Abner Meecham, a Tennessean who walks out... More >>
  • Endgame
    Tuesday, November 03
    Since it already premiered on PBS as part of "Masterpiece Contemporary" on October 25 (and on British TV in May), the theatrical release of... More >>
  • Splinterheads
    Tuesday, November 03
    Future students of early-21st-century screen comedy will be mystified by just how much film we devoted to fat guys screaming about gettin' pussy.... More >>
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