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    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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    By Brian Miller

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    By Melissa Anderson

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

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    By Karina Longworth

    We know — you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And The Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of... More >>

  • Outrage

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Takeshi Kitano's latest finds the actor-director returning to the familiar terrain of the yakuza film after recent farces (Achilles and the... More >>

  • War Horse

    By J. Hoberman

    A doggedly overwrought production less felt than facile, Steven Spielberg's War Horse is an essentially uninvolving prestige adaptation. It... More >>

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    By J. Hoberman

    A Dangerous Method, the title of David Cronenberg's viscerally cerebral new film, is something of an understatement. As cataclysmic as it is,... More >>

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    By AARON HILLIS

    With a chewy title to tip us off, director Carl Colby's compelling and tricky portrait of his late pop, The Man Nobody Knew, streamlines and... More >>

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<i>A Separation</i> is an urgent courtroom drama that puts you in the jury box A Separation is an urgent courtroom drama that puts you in the jury box
By J. Hoberman

A Separation — which just received Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film — is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the jury… More >>

Harry Belafonte documentary <i>Sing Your Song</i> is rich in archival footage Harry Belafonte documentary Sing Your Song is rich in archival footage
By Melissa Anderson

Produced by his youngest daughter, Gina, this profile of Harry Belafonte, foregrounding the 84-year-old actor and singer's political activism, is a moving if occasionally wearying hagiography. Not that the subject… More >>

Minimalist horror flick <i>The Innkeepers</i> is free of gluttonous effects Minimalist horror flick The Innkeepers is free of gluttonous effects
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 filmmaking. His little-seen apprenticeship cheapies (The Roost,… More >>

<i>Man on a Ledge</i> is a leap into the familiar Man on a Ledge is a leap into the familiar
By Brian Miller

The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a Midtown hotel. The first, of course,… More >>

Glenn Close succumbs to pitfalls in <i>Albert Nobbs</i> Glenn Close succumbs to pitfalls in Albert Nobbs
By Melissa Anderson

Fulfilling a mission that has consumed her for almost two decades, Glenn Close — as producer, co-writer and lead — brings to the screen the titular character of Albert Nobbs,… More >>

<i>Haywire</i> puts the impact back into screen violence Haywire puts the impact back into screen violence
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 private government subcontractor, takes a fall… More >>

<i>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</i> feels like Oscar-trolling 9/11 kitsch Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close feels like Oscar-trolling 9/11 kitsch
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 and assisted suicide, he went to Auschwitz… More >>

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