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  Men in Black 3: Go Back in Time (at 2012 Prices)

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies upon their... More >>

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  Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator Misses the Comedy Revolution

  By Karina Longworth

  In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of fictional... More >>

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  Battleship: Because Every Generation Needs an Armageddon

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless that it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg's Battleship, which, I... More >>

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  Bernie: Richard Linklater Goes Deep in the Heart of Texas

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the... More >>

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  Sound of My Voice: Brit Marling Preaches End Times

  By Karina Longworth

  Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>

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  Dark Shadows: Johnny Depp As Vampire Family Man

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Much of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts: Roald Dahl's... More >>

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  Bobcat Goldthwait Is Making Comedies in His Own Register

  By Karina Longworth

  Bobcat Goldthwait is moving farther and farther away from Hollywood — the industry that paid him to star in three Police Academy movies and... More >>

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  God Bless America

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Frank (Joel Murray) is an outcast. We first meet this divorced, 50-ish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker — the protagonist of Bobcat... More >>

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  New Times film

  By Karina Longworth

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful, potentially... More >>

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  New Times film review

  By Nick Pinkerton

  The Deep Blue Sea, the first fiction feature in a dozen years from visionary British director Terence Davies, is a film about love that in no way... More >>

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  The Power of Restraint in the Films of The Deep Blue Sea's Terence Davies

  By Nick Pinkerton

  With The Deep Blue Sea, the great British director Terence Davies returns to the post-war period — though in a sense, he has never left.... More >>

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  New Times film review

  By Eric Hynes

  Back with his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. It's true both in respect to the singularity of his... More >>

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  Marley

  By Melissa Anderson

  I spotted a bottle of something called Marley's Mellow Mood, "a new line of 100 percent natural relaxation beverages," in my neighborhood deli... More >>

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  The Lucky One

  By Chuck Wilson

  It's Nicholas Sparks' world; we just live in it. Sparks, in case you haven't scanned the paperback racks lately, is the former pharmaceutical... More >>

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  Whit Stillman Returns Triumphant with Damsels in Distress

  By Karina Longworth

  Whit Stillman made a name for himself making semiautobiographical, deadpan, highly literate comedies about the night lives of idle heirs (his... More >>

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