How far out does a movie have to be for it to get banned in France? Baise-Moi (Fuck Me), the…
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Arlington Road has a witty conceit buried beneath its layers of emotional sogginess and shock effects: the idea that domestic…
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Peter Greenaway’s 8 1/2 Women begins on a grief note: the immeasurably rich Philip Emmenthal (John Standing) beckons his son…
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Bruno Barreto’s Bossa Nova has all the earmarks of a work that was made by a happy man – perhaps…
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Whatever happened to films that were impolite enough to scare the hell out of their audiences? I’m talking about movies…
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the official illustrated companion book Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is a bipolar movie, a spectacle that’s against spectacles. It’s a sporadically…
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One of the most revolting sights in the world occurs when celebrities lavish praise on those "little people" who work…
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You might want to take along a bridgetable and a pitcher of lemonade when you go see Following. It’s a…
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Jeremy Podeswa’s The Five Senses is the latest entry in what has almost become a sub-genre: the "failure to communicate"…
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David Fincher’s Fight Club (from a novel by Chuck Palahniuk) is about a special kind of male anger. It’s the…
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Tarsem Singh’s The Cell asks the provocative question, “What goes on inside a serial killer’s mind?,” and ends by concluding…
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Committed (2000) Buy it at MovieGoods.com Some movies are like cinematic Advil: they dull the throb of life without ever…
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When the hero of Robert Zemeckis’ Cast Away returns to civilization after spending four years marooned on a South Pacific…
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