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January 01, 1990 - January 13, 2013 + Film Reviews
The Tillman Story; Soul Kitchen

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A new documentary called The Tillman Story is actually three stories in one...
Soul Kitchen, made by the German-born Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin, is a delirious...
Mao's Last Dancer

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Sometimes the best way to see a movie is knowing nothing about the plot. At other times, a sense of what's to come increases the...
Cairo Time; The Other Guys

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For quite a lot of time, the new film Cairo Time seems to be just a pretext for the camera to follow Patricia Clarkson around...
The Kids Are All Right

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The Kids Are All Right is a thrillingly funny and casually profound film that Lisa Cholodenko directed from a script she wrote with Stuart Blumberg....
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse; The Last Airbender

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You'd never guess what the best part of the new Twilight saga turns out to be. It isn't blood-sucking monsters doing their thing, though there's...
Toy Story 3

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While the entertainment conglomerates have been churning out ever cheesier sequels, Pixar has been the Fort Knox of honest feelings, and so it remains. Fifteen...
Winter's Bone

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Instead of belaboring this week's pseudo-spectacular offerings from the studios -- a mediocre remake of The Karate Kid and a benumbing big-screen version of the...
Splice; Ondine

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Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews Splice and Ondine.
Sex and the City 2; Father of My Children

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In previous installments of Sex and the City the ancient mystery of what women want was basically solved -- they want love, sex and designer...
Shrek Forever After

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At one point in "Shrek Forever After" the hero sees his face on a poster nailed to a tree and says, "Sure is great to...
Robin Hood

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Of all the Robin Hoods that have come and gone, at least one of them wondrously zestful -- that's Errol Flynn's -- and one of...
Iron Man 2

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Tony Stark creates a new element in "Iron Man 2," though it's no big deal. Robert Downey Jr.'s zillionaire genius, who was revealed to be...
Date Night; After Life

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During the superbly absurd adventures of a suburban couple in Date Night, a pair of thugs contemplates the husband and wife with slow-burning bafflement. One...
Clash of the Titans

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A few more 3-D spectacles like Clash of the Titans and audiences will be clamoring for 2-D...
Hubble 3D; Eclipse

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The Hubble Space Telescope, one of the crowning glories of our scientific age and it's the subject of the latest IMAX documentary, Hubble 3D. The...