Nearly 60 years after John Cage sat down at the piano and didn't
play a note for "4'33" and almost a century after Marcel Duchamp
unveiled his first "Readymades," art about avant-garde art still
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This is at least the fourth time we’ve seen director Roland
Emmerich destroy the world. No matter how many different ways he
dreams it up, after a while, it’s just kind of … yawn.
This go around he eschews
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"There's no point in them, concerts," says Jack (Alfred Molina) to
his 16-year-old daughter, Jenny (Carey Mulligan). She expects this
sort of response; still, she hopes her date, thirtysomething
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Olatunde Osunsanmi’s "fact-based" dramatization of alien
abduction cases in Nome, Alaska works so hard to prove its
empirical worth that it’ll likely stir up skepticism in even
the most committed UFO
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Fox Searchlight hasn't been kind to Gentlemen Broncos. A
wide release of Jared Hess' third film was all planned, suddenly
scrapped in favor of a handful-of-theaters run and then put back
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As the cool, ethically challenged mayor of Philadelphia, besieged
by an apparently unstoppable vigilante, Viola Davis is remarkably
restrained, even mesmerizing. This even though she’s called
on to say
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The first scene in Sebastián Silva's smart, subtle film
establishes the different spaces inhabited by the maid Raquel
(Catalina Saavedra) and the family she's served for 20 years. On
her birthday,
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It took first-time director Oren Peli just seven days to shoot
Paranormal Activity in his own house, with a hand-held
camera, two unknown actors and a measly $15,000 budget. Plenty of
people are
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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
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Austria's nominee for the Foreign Language Oscar is edgy and
disturbing, but also starkly deliberate. Feeling pressure from her
lumpy pimp in Vienna, Ukrainian-born prostitute Tamara (Irina
Potapenko)
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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,
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The text of Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things
Are is barely longer than this review, yet it’s as
incisive a children’s book as has ever been written. The
major hurdle facing Spike
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