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Like a lovesick diary entry, Terence Nance’s feature debut, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,
loops from confession to self-doubt to blind infatuation. The film is a
blend of documentary and
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In the first 10 minutes of Pieta, the latest
feature from internationally renowned director Kim Ki-duk, a man in a
wheelchair hangs himself, another loudly humps a pillow on his bed, and a
third
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During the 1988 election in Chile that
led to the ouster of Augusto Pinochet, TV advertising played as major a
role in the political process as traditional campaigning: For 27 days,
each side ha
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The words “spring break” are repeated so often in Spring Breakers that the phrase takes on a mantralike quality. Still best known for writing Kids and directing Gummo,
backwater auteur Harmony K
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For its second tribute to film noir, Return to Noirville,
Cinema 21 celebrates the genre’s apex with eight classics, but it also
hops a few decades forward with a trio of neo-noirs. Top among th
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Pigs figure heavily in Upstream Color. In
addition to a scene of a woman cuddling with a piglet, writer-director
Shane Carruth’s sophomore feature also includes swine being bagged for
an unple
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In the JJ-fied Star Trek of today, it’s easy to look upon the pitifully low-budgeted original series and giggle. The episode “Spectre of the Gun,”
Gene Roddenberry’s 1968 nod to the cowboy W
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Just how über ’70s is Daryl Duke’s The Silent Partner?
Elliot Gould (check) stars as Miles, a milquetoast bank teller and
budding lothario (check) who inadvertently provokes the murderous rag
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“Don’t be creepy, don’t be creepy, don’t be creepy,” the lovesick zombie in Warm Bodies begs
himself as he stares, slack-jawed, at the very blond, very alive object
of his affection. He�
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Some things are just better with a beer or six. Take, for
example, the sight of a shirtless Patrick Swayze ripping out a dude’s
throat. Or a gigantic bug sucking out a man’s brain with what ap
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