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  Safe House

  By Karina Longworth

  "He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan Reynolds... More >>

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  Pina

  By Melissa Anderson

  "You just have to get crazier" were the words of advice that mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave to one of her dancers, who fondly recalls... More >>

• New Times film

  By Tim Grierson

  This year's Academy Award-nominated shorts offer a little something for every viewing temperament — though some categories require sitting... More >>

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  Chronicle

  By Aaron Hillis

  In our status-updated, YouTubed, and retweeted age of self-documentation, does the "faux-found-footage" genre — popularized by The Blair... More >>

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  A Separation

  By J. Hoberman

  A Separation — the fifth feature by Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi — is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you... More >>

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  We Need to Talk About Kevin

  By Karina Longworth

  In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian's worst nightmare. Forced to give up her independence... More >>

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  New Times film feature

  By Eric Hynes

  Halfway through last year's rough-and-tumble thriller Unknown, assassins come calling for a man who's suffering from amnesia (Liam Neeson). All... More >>

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  New Times film feature

  By Karina Longworth

  It's potentially dangerous to look at the lineup of the Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday, as a reflection of the character of... More >>

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  Man on a Ledge

  By Brian Miller

  The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown... More >>

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  Haywire

  By Nick Pinkerton

  There's a point in Haywire when the film's protagonist, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), gone rogue from her job as hired muscle for a... More >>

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  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn't like: After 2002's The Hours, a lugubrious women's-problem picture touching on AIDS... More >>

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  The Iron Lady

  By Karina Longworth

  The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher as victimized woman In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which re-teams director Phyllida Lloyd with her Mamma... More >>

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  Pariah

  By Melissa Anderson

  The first 10 minutes of Dee Rees' funny, moving, nuanced, and impeccably acted first feature, in which coming of age and coming out are... More >>

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  Joyful Noise

  By Melissa Anderson

  A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane, Joyful Noise, about a small-town Southern gospel choir, lifts from Usher's "Yeah!" to give us this... More >>

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  Contraband

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Will there someday be a movie where the "one last job" goes off without a hitch? Not Contraband, anyway, which begins with that time-tested... More >>

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