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The Fall
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: May 28, 2008
Something like a pain-fueled, R-rated Princess Bride, The Fall straddles the intertwined worlds of storytelling and story. One half is a child's-eye-view tour of the convalescent wing of a Los...
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Dark Matter
Opens Friday at the Lumiere.
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: April 30, 2008
Inspired by" the 1991 University of Iowa school shootings, Dark Matter gives a sympathetic picture of its doctoral candidate turned sociopath, Liu Xing (Ye Liu). Maladjusting to cultural...
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Best of the Fest
Our critics' recommendations from this year's films.
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: April 23, 2008
Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov, Russia) Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on war in...
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Poisoned by Polonium
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: April 2, 2008
Andrei Nekrasov's documentary indictment of the Putin regime is inelegantly structured, flops when it goes "gonzo," and gets uncomfortably indulgent, but it does have morbid credibility to spare....
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Penelope
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: February 27, 2008
"A Fairytale Like No Other"? Penelope 's influences are right up front — there's the Tim Burton production design (overstocking each frame with curios) and Amélie music-box...
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Patterns of Abuse
A methodical look at how and why we torture in Taxi to the Dark Side
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: February 6, 2008
At the crosswalk the other day, I noticed something peeking out from the usual pasting of flyers on the light pole in front of me. It looked like an address label. In a nondescript font was...
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Night&Day;
Taxi Driver
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: February 6, 2008
Staying on the current-events beat after his 2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room , filmmaker Alex Gibney aims to make ripped-from-the-headlines j'accusations that are also durable documents...
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Film
Church Boys
Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan get religion in First Sunday
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: January 9, 2008
Since promising Armageddon in the leadoff bars of Straight Outta Compton , star-producer Ice Cube has been one canny career man. In recent years he's pulled up stakes in the foundering rap game...
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This Girl's Life
The Islamic revolution, and puberty, through the 2D eyes of Marjane Satrapi
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: January 9, 2008
Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation — though it moves fluidly enough, and its drawings have a handcrafted charm forgotten in the era of...
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Man in the Chair
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: December 5, 2007
Finally, stripling movie nerds get their own art-house Karate Kid ! A student filmmaking contest pits troubled, working-class teen Cameron Kincaid (Michael Angarano) against smug...
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Holly
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: November 28, 2007
Shot concurrently with a "raising awareness" documentary on child prostitution in Southeast Asia (by the tellingly named Priority Films), Holly snatches images out of soiled Cambodian red-light...
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Darfur Now
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: November 7, 2007
Can-do pep is the resonant key in Ted Braun's profile of six people, spread across three continents, working to provide relief in western Sudan. Featured are a sheik displaced by internecine...
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