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A Parallel World Comes Into View in Another Earthnew
One of the best things about Another Earth is that it's genuinely unpredictable. It also gives you space to ask tantalizing questions as you watch.
A Holocaust Mystery in Sarah's Keynew
Sarah's Key tells the story of an American expat journalist in Paris who discovers that the apartment she's about to move into has a deeply unsettling connection to the past.
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Would-be Woody Allen-ish Indie 'happythankyoumoreplease'new
Writer-director-star Josh Radnor's film, placed in a superficially recognizable but lifeless version of Manhattan's East Village, is full of distractingly dissonant moments.
Cary Fukunaga's 'Jane Eyre' Disappointsnew
With so few opportunities given to female directors, it seems a shame the producers picked the wrong man for this job.
Sofia Coppola's Hollywood Movie Somewhere Strips the Glamournew
Many scenes are wordless, most are simply conceived and beautifully executed, almost all are poignant, and only rarely do they seem to editorialize.
Tags: Sofia Coppola, Somewhere
Rabbit Hole Explores the Grieving Processnew
A simple scene on a park bench walloped me emotionally like no film in recent memory.
A Docudrama of a Notorious Unsolved Murder in Americanew
All Good Things is the only slightly fictionalized story of real-life millionaire Robert A. Durst, who is suspected of murdering his wife, who disappeared in 1982.
The Latest of Woody Allen's Light, Somewhat Entertaining, Late-Period Comedies!new
Yes, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is yet another Woody Allen movie. And that's precisely the reason to celebrate it.
Damaged Goods in Philip Seymour Hoffman's Jack Goes Boatingnew
Jack Goes Boating attempts to offer a satisfying portrait of two people falling in love. Given its talented two leads, it falls surprisingly short of this modest ambition.
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In Wild Grass, desire doesn't fade with agenew
It is wholly within the spirit of this movie to be less concerned with meaning than with enjoying, questioning and delighting in story, beauty and mischief.
Bland Love in '(500) Days of Summer'new
(500) Days is that it's cloying and dishonest, indulging all of the clichés and false optimism of an average love story while masquerading as something that is questioning those things.
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, Mark Webb
Three People Vie to Be a Couple in the Freefalling 'Two Lovers'new
From its first frames to its downbeat denouement, this is the most fatalistic film I've ever seen that offers its protagonist two beautiful women to choose between.
'Let the Right One In' is Too Coldnew
Bookended by shots of falling snow, Right One seems to take place in a snow globe, just as still, just as quiet, its compositions just as stiff, with plastic figures arranged in stock situations.
Bush Gets Stoned in 'W.'new
While Oliver Stone's latest a messy movie without much momentum, it embraces a willful confusion -- one that history might prove to be a perfectly appropriate response to the last eight years.
