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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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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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C+
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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B
Rated PG-13 | 92 min
Cherien Dabis' Amreeka, about a Palestinian woman who emigrates to the U.S. just after the invasion of Iraq, could have been spun off some master disk in a vault deep below Park City. But read more …

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Amreeka
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B+
Rated PG-13 | 95 min
At first blush, the feature debut of music-video veteran Marc Webb seems like a Fox Searchlight special: a young-adult romance with a killer soundtrack and enough nudging self-awareness to disarm cynical read more …

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