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  Fast Five

  By Karina Longworth

  The fifth installment in The Fast and the Furious franchise picks up where the fourth left off: Lunkhead street racer/noble criminal antihero Dom... More >>

• In a Better World

  By Ella Taylor

  If The King's Speech was a comfy middlebrow choice for Best Picture of 2010, how much more depressing was the academy's squandering of Best... More >>

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  POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

  By Mark Holcomb

  As agreeable as it is insidious, Morgan Spurlock's latest exposé of corporate control via immersive humiliation is his best, most formally... More >>

• Certified Copy

  By John Thomason

  What happens when everything a filmmaker tells us about his characters is suddenly turned on its head? This is the dilemma that viewers of Abbas... More >>

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  Prom

  By Nick Pinkerton

  This one perfect moment." "That soul-crushing mistress." "Our forever night." These and other understated definitions are obsessively applied to... More >>

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  Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil

  By Michelle Orange

  One of the more depressing, desensitizing experiences I've had in a theater, Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil feels as computer-generated as its... More >>

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  Cold Weather

  By J. Hoberman

  Cheerfully diffident, garrulous yet un-inflected, blithely self-absorbed, the mumblecore brand proliferates: Last year's star vehicles Greenberg... More >>

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  Madea’s Big Happy Family

  By Melissa Anderson

  Tyler Perry returns to transferring his own stage work to the screen, donning once again the Lane Bryant floral prints that have made his... More >>

• Applause

  By Melissa Anderson

  Appearing in every frame of Applause, Thea Barfoed (Paprika Steen), an aging actress and recovering alcoholic trying to get her life back... More >>

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  African Cats

  By Nick Schager

  Anthropomorphizing its animal stars to a borderline-dubious degree, African Cats situates itself in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve, where... More >>

• Bill Cunningham New York

  By Mark Holcomb

  No passion for fashion is required to enjoy this absorbing portrait of legendary New York Times "On the Street" photographer Bill Cunningham, but... More >>

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  The Conspirator

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Set in the months after Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, The Conspirator follows the consequences of the fatal shot at Ford's... More >>

• Super

  By Karina Longworth

  When a local crime boss (Kevin Bacon) lures away his wife (Liv Tyler), lifelong pushover Frank (Rainn Wilson) — under the influence of a... More >>

• Rio

  By Nick Schager

  Parrot sex is the narrative impetus of Rio, and yet there's still little spark to this animated tale of a domesticated Minnesota macaw named Blu... More >>

• Winter in Wartime

  By Ella Taylor

  Updated for a skeptical age, this new World War II movie comes impeccably groomed in period-attentive tans and grays, is written in nonheroic... More >>

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