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  Larry Crowne: Tom Hanks Loses His Job. Julia Roberts Does Her Angry Thing Again

  By Mark Olsen

  For a movie called Larry Crowne, it sure is tough to get a solid read on the character of Larry Crowne. Directed, co-written by, and starring Tom... More >>

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  Page One: Inside The New York Times: David Carr Fights the Good Fight

  By J. Hoberman

  Nobody cries "Stop the presses!" in Andrew Rossi's documentary; no one would dare. There's a palpable fear that it could actually happen. Are we... More >>

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  A Useful Life: Death and Life at a Uruguayan Cinema

  By Brian Miller

  From the Columbia City Cinema to the Uptown, smaller cinemas have been closing all around Seattle. And though this Uruguayan film never mentions... More >>

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  Vincent Wants to Sea: A German Road Movie for the Haldol Generation

  By Brian Miller

  Here's one solution to the high cost of mental-health care: Let the patients steal their shrink's car and go on a road trip! One's OCD, another's... More >>

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  Bad Teacher: Cameron Diaz Wishes She'd Done Bridesmaids Instead

  By Karina Longworth

  Bad Teacher focuses on a school year in the life of Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz), an aging party girl, once destined to be a trophy wife, who instead... More >>

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  Bride Flight: Three Different Marital Paths, From Holland to New Zealand

  By Michelle Orange

  "It's complete," grizzled, wistful Frank (Rutger Hauer) says in the opening scene of Bride Flight, right before he croaks among the well-groomed... More >>

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  Buck: Even If You Don't Like Horses, You'll Love This Doc

  By Mark Holcomb

  A recent documentary favorite at SIFF, Buck follows itinerant horse trainer Buck Brannaman as he applies his uniquely humane and frankly... More >>

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  Cars 2: Again, Owen Wilson Is Stuck Inside a Cartoon Automobile

  By Nick Schager

  Pixar's Cars franchise takes a sharp turn from NASCAR mayhem and rural red-state-targeted '50s nostalgia to 007 espionage with this upgraded... More >>

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  Conan O'Brien Can't Stop: The TV Host Manages His Dark Side

  By Karina Longworth

  "I am angry," Conan O'Brien admits in Rodman Flender's tour doc. "I'm trying not to be . . . but sometimes I'm so mad I... More >>

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  Cracks: Heavy Breathing at an English Boarding School

  By Ella Taylor

  As boarding-school bodice-rippers go, this assured debut by British director and girls'-school alumna Jordan Scott fairly bursts with pent-up... More >>

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  Steam of Life: Sauna Confessions From Finland

  By Brian Miller

  When was the last time, in a non-sexual context, that you saw a friend naked? Showering together after high-school sports practice? We prudish... More >>

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  The Tree of Life: Brad Pitt Is Sean Penn's Father!

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas barbecue, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life... More >>

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  Angel of Evil: An Italian Gangster With "More Balls Than Brains"

  By Brian Miller

  After Carlos and Mesrine, it seems European directors can't get enough of those those bloody '70s, that bell-bottomed era of radical/gangster... More >>

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  Beautiful Boy: Maria Bello in a Columbine Grief-Fest

  By Mark Holcomb

  One of two current films dealing with the familial fallout of a teenager's school shooting spree (Lynne Ramsay's similarly themed We Need to Talk... More >>

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  The Trip: Steve Coogan on a Quest to Eat

  By Brian Miller

  Director Michael Winterbottom had so much fun making the 2005 Tristram Shandy with comic stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon that he signed up to... More >>

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