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Crazy Horse

Direction, Sound & Editing by Frederick Wiseman Produced by Pierre Olivier Bardet & Wiseman Relealsed by Zipporah Films English & French with English subtitles USA/France. 134 min. Not rated The subjects of Crazy Horse are drop-dead gorgeous, and have their nude bodies caressed by the camera for much of the 134-minute running time. But since […]

Pariah

Written & Directed by Dee Rees Produced by Nekisa Cooper Released by Focus Features USA. 86 min. Rated R With Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Charles Parnell, Sahra Mellesse, Kim Wayans & Shamika Cotton Every year another indie could be the last one ever shot on film. But 35mm keeps hanging on, and beautifully […]

A Separation

Written, Produced & Directed by Asghar Farhadi Released by Sony Pictures Classics Iran. 123 min. Rated PG-13 Farsi with English subtitles With Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Sarina Farhadi, Ali-Asghar Shahbazi, Sareh Bayat, & Shahab Hosseini A Separation opens with a marriage in crisis. Testifying testily, the wife explains to a judge that she wants to […]

The Best of 2011

Go for broke—that could be the motto for many of this year’s noteworthy films. Terrence Malick created the world out of the Big Bang, all set to a pseudo-Wagnerian score, in The Tree of Life. Even Werner Herzog ventured back thousands of years to ponder life during the Ice Age—and in 3D, a format that […]

Albert Nobbs

Directed by Rodrigo García Produced by Glenn Close, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn & Alan Maloney Written by Glenn Close, John Banville & Gabriella Prekop, based on a short story by George Moore Released by Liddell Entertainment/Roadside Attractions UK/Ireland. 113 min. Rated R Starring: Glenn Close, Brendan Gleeson, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson & Janet McTeer Albert […]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Directed by David Fincher Produced by Scott Rudin, Ole Sondberg, Soren Stærmose & Ceán Chaffin Written by Steven Zaillian, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson Released by Columbia Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures USA/Sweden/UK/Germany. 158 min. Rated R With: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Geraldine James, Joely […]

Addiction Incorporated

Produced & Directed by Charles Evans Jr. Released by Variance Films USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13 The current demonization of Wall Street may have helped trigger the current protest movement, but there’s an even more hated entity in the minds of most Americans: Big Tobacco. Cigarette companies are the most egregious example of corporate greed […]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Directed by Tomas Alfredson Written by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan, based on the novel by John Le Carré Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner & Robyn Slovo Released by Focus Features. UK/France/Germany. 128 min. Rated R With Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Colin Firth, Stephen Graham, Tom Hardy, Ciaran Hinds, John […]

London River

Directed by Rachid Bouchareb Produced by Bouchareb and Jean Bréhat Written by Bouchareb, Zoé Galeron & Olivier Lorelle Released by Cinema Libre Studio UK/France/Algeria. 90 min. Not Rated In English, French & Arabic with English subtitles With Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sami Bouajila & Roschdy Zem The events of 7/7—the day terrorist attacks struck public […]