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  Miral

  By Nick Pinkerton

  A U.N. premiere! A Vanessa Redgrave cameo! Zionist hoodlums! Distributors the Weinstein Co. and director Julian Schnabel overcome their... More >>

• The Conspirator

  By Nick Pinkerton

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

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  Hanna

  By Eric Hynes

  The era of the teenage action heroine is fully upon us. As pop-cultural correctives go, it's a mixed blessing. In one corner, you've got the... More >>

• Your Highness

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic, streaked with carelessly... More >>

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  Source Code

  By Aaron Hillis

  Moon director Duncan Jones' sophomore feature, Source Code—a pseudo-cerebral, modestly budgeted sci-fi thriller with ambitions more Philip... More >>

• Insidious

  By Nick Pinkerton

  There is a great deal of prowling motion in Insidious: a recurring sideways dolly outside an ominous house, a trenchcoat-clad cacodemon pacing... More >>

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  Dallas International Film Festival

  By Robert Wilonsky

  Last year, the question most often asked of Dallas International Film Festival artistic director James Faust was, "What's this year's The Hurt... More >>

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  Kill the Irishman

  By Nick Pinkerton

  With post-GoodFellas crime-movie tropes dyed for St. Patrick's Day, this Ballad of Danny Greene attempts to enshrine the Irish-American... More >>

• We Are What We Are

  By J. Hoberman

  The tale of a disoriented cannibal family trying to survive in the lower depths of Mexico City, Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We Are is a... More >>

• Win Win

  By Karina Longworth

  Paul Giamatti continues contemporary cinema's longest pre-midlife crisis in Win Win as Mike, yet another schlubby fortysomething flummoxed by... More >>

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  Jane Eyre

  By Karina Longworth

  If Jane Eyre is not the greatest of the Great Books with a permanent position on required-reading lists, it may be the most frequently filmed: At... More >>

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  Paul

  By Robert Wilonsky

  Paul, it should be noted up front, is not the third installment in the so-called Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost,... More >>

• Limitless

  By Nick Schager

  A gleeful celebration of nonstop doping, Limitless offers up a dim Better Living Through Chemistry fantasy that refuses to rain on its own... More >>

• The Lincoln Lawyer

  By Mark Holcomb

  As devoid of spontaneity as a D.A.'s defense strategy, this adaptation of fiction machine Michael Connelly's 2005 legal thriller is both... More >>

• Of Gods and Men

  By J. Hoberman

  The eight gentle Trappist monks depicted in Of Gods and Men uphold the faith that brought them from France to Algeria, only to be abducted and... More >>

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