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Rated R | 129 min
Do you like montages, but grow bored of the tedious plot bits in between? Then Pirate Radio is the movie for you. Set in 1966, during what an opening title helpfully labels "the greatest era for read more …

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Pirate Radio
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A-
No Rating | 88 min
Akira Kurosawa's four-way account of a man's murder, re-released on a new print, has become so associated with its central device — not to mention its myriad offshoots — that it requires an read more …

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B
No Rating | 90 min
Tom Quinn sets the dissolution of a South Philly family against the backdrop of string-band culture, making for a low-key but satisfying blend of melodrama and observant naturalism. Greg Lyons and Jennifer read more …

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B+
No Rating | 100 min
Born out of Lars von Trier's bout with clinical depression (which, to judge from recent interviews, he’s not quite over), this harrowing two-hander is an ordeal by design. After therapist Willem read more …

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Antichrist
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Rated R | 90 min
Directed by Good Night, and Good Luck. writer Grant Heslov, the adaptation of Jon Ronson's implausibly nonfictional book read more …

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Men Who Stare at Goats
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C-
Rated R | 127 min
Michael Moore takes on his biggest target yet, and his most elusive. Buttonholing reluctant CEOs is one thing; pinning down an abstract principle quite another. Arriving just as the economy is showing read more …

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Capitalism: A Love Story
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A-
Rated R | 93 min
A violent, operatic character study that is equal parts Derek Jarman and A Clockwork Orange, Nicholas Winding Refn's movie treats the story of "Britain’s most famous prisoner" as an antihero read more …

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Bronson
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C+
Rated PG-13 | 111 min
Whatever her talents as an actress — and her turn in Grey Gardens suggests she may have left quite a few of them untapped — Drew Barrymore is an enormously ingratiating screen presence, which turns read more …

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Whip It
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B
No Rating | 104 min
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Brother's Keeper and Paradise Lost are model blends of forensic documentary and direct cinema. But Crude, Berlinger's first solo read more …

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Crude
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A-
Rated R | 105 min
Joel and Ethan Coen have an almost chronic aversion to being taken seriously, which is probably why A Serious Man, in addition to wrestling with profound issues of morality and religious faith, read more …

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A Serious Man
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