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Burden of Dreams Burden of Dreams
Welcome to the Occupation: Level-headed doc lets soldiers vent, leaves conclusions to us
Joshua Land, September 13, 2005
Reeling from the rhetorical toxicity of the 2004 election, some members of the punditocracy, tiring of red-versus-blue gridlock and convinced the... More>>
Sell Shock
Raw deal: Acquisition disputes and pricey buys at Toronto film fest
Anthony Kaufman, September 13, 2005
TORONTO—The Sundance-ification of the Toronto International Film Festival was cinched early on. When rival execs from Fox Searchlight and... More>>
Polanski's 'Twist' on a Classic Is the Stuff of Nightmares Polanski's 'Twist' on a Classic Is the Stuff of Nightmares
Jessica Winter, September 13, 2005
Early in the new rendition of Charles Dickens's novel of social injustice, a camera shot briefly holds the friendless orphan between the bars of... More>>
'Dirty Love'
Mark Holcomb, September 13, 2005
Should we be worried about Jenny McCarthy? In the course of John Asher's excruciatingly inept Dirty Love, the perpetual bimbo-ingenue has her... More>>
Surprise: Film with Von Trier Screenplay Satirizes American Idiocy Surprise: Film with Von Trier Screenplay Satirizes American Idiocy
Jessica Winter, September 13, 2005
Yet more buckshot and spleen launched in America's general direction, Lars von Trier's screenplay for Dear Wendy marks the latest volume of his... More>>
'Loudmouth Soup'
Akiva Gottlieb, September 13, 2005
This micro-budget amateur-acting exercise plays like The Anniversary Party without the frisson of marquee performers behaving badly. We get... More>>
'Roll Bounce'
Laura Sinagra, September 13, 2005
Remember in Bring It On when the cheerleading squads face off for the final showdown? Y'know, when those furious edits from the stars' faces to... More>>
'Into the Fire'
Peter L'Official, September 13, 2005
If there's an element of Into the Fire that isn't rank and offensive, I've failed to find it. A self-mutilating NYC harbor cop (Sean Patrick... More>>
'Novo'
James Crawford, September 13, 2005
In Novo, Eduardo Noriega is Graham, a ruggedly handsome Paris photocopy clerk who can't remember people or events for more than 10 minutes at a... More>>
'Dorian Blues'
Danial Adkison, September 13, 2005
Inhabiting the breezeway between the sweet sincerity of Beautiful Thing and the didacticism of an ABC Afterschool Special, this upstate New York... More>>
Death Becomes Her Death Becomes Her
Skeleton glee: Burton taps the pop-gothic semi-culture for a merrily macabre puppet folktale
Michael Atkinson, September 06, 2005
As a Hollywood mogul, Tim Burton has succeeded in molding his devotion to old pulp and antiquated methods into a cooler-than-cool marketing... More>>
War and Fleece: Niccol-Plated Gun Runner Satire Shoots Blanks War and Fleece: Niccol-Plated Gun Runner Satire Shoots Blanks
Jessica Winter, September 06, 2005
Let no one say that Lord of War lacks for auteurist aspiration. In the opening-title sequence, set to the strains of Buffalo Springfield's... More>>
Memories of Overdevelopment Memories of Overdevelopment
At home she feels like a tourist: Faux travelogue shoots from the hip at exurban sprawl
Ed Halter, September 06, 2005
A dreamlike travelogue that transforms a mundane world into something strange and new, Jem Cohen's Chain crafts a fiction from visual documents,... More>>
The Weight of History Anchors an Earnest, Elliptical Odyssey The Weight of History Anchors an Earnest, Elliptical Odyssey
Michael Atkinson, September 06, 2005
Shot length might someday be used as a kind of cultural palmistry: American filmmakers favor unambiguous brevity, but for a certain breed of... More>>
Cinema Vertigo: Radical Film's Rapturous Secrets Revealed
Michael Atkinson, September 06, 2005
Ten years after its belated U.S. release, it seems as if Mikhail Kalatozov's I Am Cuba (1964) has always been with us, always staking out its... More>>
American Brooding American Brooding
Suburban renewal: Annoying teen-angst subgenre gets a refresher course in wistful emo
Jessica Winter, September 06, 2005
Emo cinema adds another quirky, wistful member to its ranks with Thumbsucker, whose young suburbanite hero fits the type of pharmaceutically... More>>
Middlebrow Adaptation of a Math Play Doesn't Add Up Middlebrow Adaptation of a Math Play Doesn't Add Up
Dennis Lim, September 06, 2005
A Miramax prestige pic based on David Auburn's Pulitzer-winning Broadway hit, Proof insists that life is not as tidy as mathematics—an... More>>
Everything's Been Understated in Foer Adaptation
Michael Atkinson, September 06, 2005
Utterly unfilmable novels don't scare some people—a would-be Cronenberg after a fashion, actor-turned- Yiddishe-auteur Liev Schreiber has... More>>
See It Now See It Now
Geopolitickin' and an East Asian invasion highlight the 43rd New York Film Festival
, September 06, 2005
School is in, and this year's edition of the New York Film Festival, which runs from September 23 through October 9 at Lincoln Center, is nothing... More>>
Samurai and Old Souls: A Look Back at a Legendary Japanese Studio Samurai and Old Souls: A Look Back at a Legendary Japanese Studio
Elliott Stein, September 06, 2005
Shochiku was founded as a theatrical producer specializing in Kabuki troupes. Its cinema company was organized by two men who had started as... More>>
'The Future of Food'
James Crawford, September 06, 2005
The Future of Food, Deborah Koons Garcia's learned and persuasive essay about the perils of genetically modified (GM) foods, is a rarity—a... More>>
'Just Like Heaven'
Joshua Land, September 06, 2005
Good news for horror fans: Six years after Haley Joel Osment first saw dead people, the gimmick is finally safe for romantic comedy. Surely the... More>>
'Separate Lies'
Laura Sinagra, September 06, 2005
The best tragedies of manners rely on the viewer believing that protagonists are driven by binding social constraints to keep up appearances... More>>
'Buffalo' Gal’s Hypersensitive Misfits Dig Their Own Holes 'Buffalo' Gal’s Hypersensitive Misfits Dig Their Own Holes
Joshua Land, September 06, 2005
A movie refreshingly lacking in social graces, Piggie uses the transparency of video to x-ray the psyches of characters obsessed with the... More>>
'One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern'
Michael Atkinson, September 06, 2005
Exactly the sort of starry-eyed, bullet-spraying hyperbole that drains credibility from any brand of political discourse, Stephen Vittoria's... More>>
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  1. Marvel's The Avengers, 55.6 mil, 457.7 mil
  2. Battleship, 25.5 mil, 25.5 mil
  3. The Dictator, 17.4 mil, 24.5 mil
  4. Dark Shadows, 12.6 mil, 50.7 mil
  5. What to Expect When You're Expecting, 10.5 mil, 10.5 mil
  6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 3.2 mil, 8.2 mil
  7. The Hunger Games, 3.0 mil, 391.6 mil
  8. Think Like a Man, 2.7 mil, 85.8 mil
  9. The Lucky One, 1.8 mil, 56.9 mil
  10. The Pirates! Band of Misfits, 1.6 mil, 25.5 mil
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