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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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  The Innkeepers

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror... More >>

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  Pina

  By Melissa Anderson

  "You just have to get crazier" were the words of advice mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave to one of her dancers, who fondly recalls the... 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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  Some Nouns, Some Verbs and 9/11

  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 Divide

  By Nick Pinkerton

  A mushroom cloud blooms over Manhattan at the opening of The Divide. We see it reflected in the tearful eyes of Eva (Lauren German), who'll spend... 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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  In the Land of Blood and Honey

  By Karina Longworth

  It's 1992 at the start of In the Land of Blood and Honey, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook up at a Bosnian... More >>

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  Odd Couple

  By Karina Longworth

  "Steven [Soderbergh] asked me, 'Why is Angelina Jolie the only female action star in the world?' I told him, 'I don't know,' and he said,... More >>

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  I Don't Know How She Did It

  By Karina Longworth

  In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which re-teams director Phyllida Lloyd with her Mamma Mia! star Meryl Streep, eightysomething Margaret... More >>

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  On Her Way Out

  By Melissa Anderson

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

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  White People Problems

  By Karina Longworth

  Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play, Carnage, stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet as two sets... More >>

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  Is Nothing Sacred?

  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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  The Silence of the Hams

  By Melissa Anderson

  An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist will probably be the most successful silent movie since the days of the... More >>

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  New Girl in Town

  By J. Hoberman

  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is hardly a personal project. Still, David Fincher's sveltely malevolent remake of the 2009 Swedish blockbuster... More >>

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