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No, Really, How?

Learning to say what you mean and mean what you say in How Do You Know.

By Ella Taylor
Dec 15, 2010

An odd duck of a romantic comedy from James L. Brooks, How Do You Know strays as far from a barrel of laughs as a writer-director formed by network television can get without losing his grip altogether. The movie's rhythms are loose, disjointed and peppered with strategic silences or half-finished...
No Happily Ever After Included

Fairy tale meets real life for runaway kids in Kisses.

By Ella Taylor
Jul 28, 2010

Strictly speaking, the two scrappy Irish kids in Lance Daly's Kisses aren't homeless, but in every sense that matters, they have only each other for shelter. Kylie and Dylan (played by Kelly O'Neill and Shane Curry, both plucked from Dublin schools and oozing forlorn defiance) live next door to each...
The Producer

Indie film and family in crisis in The Father of My Children.

By Ella Taylor
Jul 21, 2010

The Father of My Children, a drama about love, sorrow and the heartbreak of independent film financing, is sliced neatly in half by the sudden death of its protagonist, Grégoire Canvel. I'm not spoiling: Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve has admitted that Grégoire is based on the French producer Humbert Balsan, who...
Momma's Boys

Peter Pan complexes collide in Cyrus.

By Ella Taylor
Jul 7, 2010

In Cyrus, a freakishly engrossing black comedy about excessively mothered men and the women who enable them, the excellent John C. Reilly plays John, a middle-aged editor who lives like a stalled graduate student in his cluttered Los Angeles cottage. That's where his former wife and close friend Jamie (Catherine...
Captured in Afghanistan

American soldiers, vérité-style, in Restrepo.

By Ella Taylor
Jul 7, 2010

In the summer of 2007, two Western journalists dug in with a platoon of American soldiers on a 15-month deployment in the Korengal Valley, a strategic outpost near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan. The mountainous region was infested with Taliban fighters and possibly was also used by Al Qaeda leaders as...

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