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Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson culls 40 years of interviews for her examination of the struggle of women breaking into the male-dominated art world. She leads us through important moments in the feminist art movement, including the founding of Women Artists in Revolution in 1969 and the A.I.R. Gallery ... IMDB13 Assassins
The best action movie of summer 2011 may be this story of a band of samurai in the Edo period who get together to kill the cruel Lord Naritsugu (a delightfully evil Gor™ Inagaki). Director Takashi Miike builds slowly to the showdown, carefully establishing stakes, setting, and character, be ... IMDB21 Jump Street
The late 1980s and early 1990s television show that is famous for helping birth Johnny Depp’s career and very little else gets a big- screen adaptation. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are cast as a pudgy smart-aleck and a hunky doofus, respectively — roles which were no doubt major stretc ... IMDB50/50
Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a 27-year-old who exercises every day, doesn’t smoke, and never jaywalks. Hoping to get rid of some pesky back pains, he visits his doctor, only to learn that he has a large malignant tumor on his spine. Will Reiser based his screenplay for this funny, perceptive ... IMDBA Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg explores the headwaters of psychoanalysis in this triangle made up of Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), and their mutual patient and later colleague, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley). When they’re not arguing psychoanalytic theory, these people ... IMDBA Separation
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi examines the complications and contradictions of his country in a beautifully modulated drama that begins with a case in a Tehran divorce court. Farhadi is so evenhanded that the Iranian authorities have not seen fit to censor him, even though you can read plenty of ... IMDBA Thousand Words
Eddie Murphy to just be quiet finally get their wish with this high-concept comedy. Murphy plays Jack, a man who crosses a spiritual guru (Cliff Curtis). The guru plants a Bodhi tree on Jack’s property, which loses a leaf with every word he says. When the leaves are gone, Jack dies. From there ... IMDBA Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
Not since Cheech and Chong laid down “Santa Claus and His Old Lady” in 1971 has the yuletide been usurped by a comic duo that prefers another green plant to mistletoe and fir trees. Harold and Kumar (once more played by John Cho and Kal Penn) come back for another hit, and they’re ... IMDBAbduction
Actor Taylor Lautner probably has his photograph in a lot of lockers this fall, just because he played a hunky werewolf in the Twilight movies. The next step in his career is to star in a movie as a teenager who finds out his parents aren't who he thought they were, brandish guns, and snarl lines li ... IMDBAct of Valor
Active-duty U.S. Navy SEALs star in this action picture about a platoon that attempts to stop a terrorist attack on American soil. The story is fictional, but the individual missions are loosely based on real-life events. Presumably, these men do their own stunts. Rated R. 101 minutes. IMDBAfrican Cats
This release from Disneynature spotlights the sort of familial conflict and angst you find in Shakespeare's dramas. Filmed in Kenya's Masai Mara National Preserve, it tells the concurrent stories of a pride of lions and a small cheetah family trying to survive. You won't be bored for a moment: the l ... IMDBAlbert Nobbs
Glenn Close is superb as Albert Nobbs, a headwaiter in a turn-of-the-20th-century Dublin hotel. Nobbs is a man who does his job with dignity and a minimum of expression. He draws no atten- tion to himself, and for good reason. Underneath his starched collar and waiter’s coat, he’s a woma ... IMDBAlvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Christmas, Christmas, time is here! Time for toys and time for cheer! As it’s been a few years since a Chipmunks movie has made cash registers ring, it’s also time for a sequel to 2009’s Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. After all, Lady Gaga released a new album, and it&rsqu ... IMDBAmerican Reunion
Most of the major cast members of 1999’s American Pie — including Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Tara Reid, Seann William Scott, and Eugene Levy — are back to play the characters on the occasion of their 10th high-school reunion. The point of this film is to see which character ende ... IMDBAmigo
John Sayles makes movies that make a point, and the point here is that imperialism may change its locations but seldom its stripes. Sayles shines a light on the American occupation of the Philippines at the beginning of the 20th century, reminding us of American history that we don’t know much ... IMDBAnd Everything is Going Fine
By the end of his life in 2004, Spalding Gray had amassed a glowing critical reputation and an adoring fan base; now director Steven Soderbergh has created a biography of Gray told memoir-style, in Gray’s own voice, through clips from performances, interviews, and other footage, including conv ... IMDBAnonymous
Roland Emmerich (Godzilla, Independence Day) turns his guns on Shakespeare, presenting his version of the theory that Shakespeare was not the author of the plays attributed to him, that they were the work of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. The movie is riddled with historical inaccuracies a ... IMDBAnother Happy Day
First-time writer-director Sam Levinson follows in the footsteps of his father, Barry (Diner, Tin Men), offering a complex ensemble piece. But the younger Levinson eschews his father’s light comedic touch, instead creating a much darker study of a dysfunctional family in for an explosive weeke ... IMDBAraya
Margot Benacerraf ’s 1950 poetic documentary about the salt harvesters and fishermen of the Araya peninsula on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast has been stunningly restored. The film is hauntingly beautiful and some- times lullingly repetitious. That’s the nature of the work she records ... IMDBArchie's Final Project
This involving, unpredictable, and extremely dark comedy focuses on a very serious topic: suicide. High school outcast Archie (Gabriel Sunday) decides that, as his final project for his media class, he will take his own life on camera. Fast cross-cutting, goofy animated scenes, the use of retro film ... IMDBArthur
In this unnecessary, uninspired remake of the mediocre 1981 Dudley Moore hit, Russell Brand plays the drunken billionaire man-child, who must choose money and marriage (to Jennifer Garner) or love (with Greta Gerwig) and losing his fortune. Most of the movie plays like a string of vignettes designed ... IMDBArthur Christmas
Aardman Animations, the company that brought you Wallace and Gromit, returns with a computer-animated comedy about the high-tech operation run by Santa ( Jim Broadbent) and the attempts by Santa’s slacker son ( James McAvoy) to save Christmas when the system hits a glitch. Naturally, Bill Nigh ... IMDBBarney's Version
Written by Michael Konyves, this film is based on Canadian writer and journalist Mordecai Richler’s memory novel of the same title. It’s unpredictable, which is very much in its favor, but it’s also in need of tighter editing and stronger writing. Paul Giamatti is quite good in the ... IMDBBattle: Los Angeles
Everything about this movie looks as if it’s the latest video game. Instead of playing, you get to watch Aaron Eckhart as a Marine who slugs it out with aliens. Rated PG-13. 112 minutes. IMDBBattleship
Just when you think Hollywood has scraped the bottom of the barrel for movie ideas, along come an adaptation of a board game. The old Milton Bradley game comes to life, but not as you remember: it has elaborate CGI robots that look like they wandered in from a Transformers film. Liam Neeson and Tayl ... IMDBMovie lovers rejoice
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