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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Has Change of Guardnew
The announcement that Nancy Buirski was stepping down as head of the Full Frame Documentary Festival was a surprising but not totally unexpected departure.
Robert Redford Gets Preachynew
Amid the torrent of similarly opportunistic fare coming out of Hollywood this fall, Lions for Lambs is the singularly sanctimonious, heavy-handed and counterproductive of the lot.
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
'The Kingdom' Has Powernew
Surprisingly, the best of this year's lot of war movies thus far is The Kingdom, an action movie with characters filled by Hollywood central casting.
Tags: Peter Berg, The Kingdom
David Cronenberg's Crime Film Updates a Sacred Mythnew
Following the 2005 critical success of A History of Violence, there's a natural impulse to view David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises as a formerly maverick director's continuing foray into accessible, even mainstream, filmmaking.
'The Bourne Ultimatum': Dirty Secretsnew
It is gratifying that the zenith of a summer movie season otherwise headlined by shape-shifting robots and an aging '80s action icon comes in the form of throwback to the espionage thrillers of the 1970s updated as compelling, exhilarating zeitgeist.
Killing Me Softlynew
Few directors accentuate the real-life subtleties of hard-edged suspense like John Dahl.
Mild About Harrynew
My reaction to the Potter mythos is not a feeling of love or hate but utter ambivalence over the fantastical universe of pubescent sorcerers, wizened minders and nefarious spirits, all with Tolkienian names and wands full of spells and whistles.
'A Mighty Heart': Where's the Viewpoint?new
Is Winterbottom suggesting a xeno-divide that dare not be crossed except at your own peril?
Oriented Sexualitynew
Adulterous women are at the center of two new films set in China -- Curse of the Golden Flower and The Painted Veil.
Next Year's Modelnew
Have we already seen the dawn and dusk of the DVD?
Eyes of the Tigernew
Underdogs go over the top in three holiday releases -- Dreamgirls, Rocky Balboa, and We Are Marshall.