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ACTION
"Do you know why God invented the theater? So the ugly actor would have a place to work"

ADAM & STEVE
Sh*t happens: The strange beginnings of a gay romance

AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK 2010
The haunting ghosts of European colonialism

AFTER.LIFE
“The Lady or the Tiger?” for the goth set

AFTER THE CUP: SONS OF SAKHNIN UNITED
The goals loom larger off the field

AGNES AND HER BROTHERS
So a post-op transsexual, a sex addict, and a sexually repressed man all walk into a bar…

THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR
A rock ‘n’ roll genius loses that lovin’ feelin’

AGORA
A sword and sandal epic for the thinking man

AILEEN: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER
A searing portrait of the real life subject of Monster, Aileen Wuornos

ALAMAR
A tender drama with father, son, a greedy egret, and a hungry crocodile

ALIAS BETTY
An elegant thriller revolving around two unsentimental portrayals of motherhood

ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning women's lib melodrama

ALL THE REAL GIRLS
A subtle portrayal of awkward young love

ALTIPLANO
The violation of a Peruvian + ill-fated humanitarianism + the Iraq war = a watered-down Babel

AMANDLA! A REVOLUTION IN FOUR PART HARMONY
“The thing that saved us was music”

THE AMERICAN
That ’70s thriller

AMERICAN BLACKOUT
African-American disenfranchisement, Representative Cynthia McKinney, and the war on terror

AMERICAN HARDCORE
A conventional & cautious look at the angry & unpredictable punk scene of the early ‘80s

AMERICAN SPLENDOR
La vie en gray

ANATOMY OF HELL
A truly indecent proposal

AND NOW LADIES & GENTLEMEN
Two lost souls, two lost memories

ANIMAL KINGDOM
Beware the Down Under mama, my son – the jaws that bite, the claws that catch

ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
American Quiche: American Pie goes gay

ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE DUEL
A thorough, faithful adaptation of a light master work

ANYTHING BUT LOVE
Movie memories and technicolor dreams

APRÈS VOUS
A romantic comedy where no good deed goes unpunished

THE ARISTOCRATS
Showbiz's most notorious & sickest joke thoroughly examined

ARMY OF CRIME
Commies & the foreign-born fight for France’s freedom

AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN
Life’s a circus, then you cry

AROUND THE BEND
Male Bonding 101

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956)
Lush and luminous all-star bonanza

ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
"Are you a 'great artist' when it comes to fellatio?"

ASK THE DUST
Crash: The Prequel

THE ASPHALT JUNGLE
Posh MGM does gritty film noir

ASSASSIN
Margaret Cho, at her most "dangerous"

ASSISTED LIVING
A ray of light (and a hit of a joint) in a lonely nursing home

ASYLUM
Creepiness & carnality in a hospital hothouse

AUTUMN
A tribute to French film falls flat

AUTUMN SPRING
Puckish prankster is punk'd

THE AVIATOR
Soaring with a few tailspins: Martin Scorsese's tribute to the golden age of Hollywood and aviation

AWESOME: I F*****' SHOT THAT!
A lovingly-made 90-minute epileptic seizure

BAADASSSSS! (a.k.a. GETTIN' THE MAN'S FOOT OUTTA YOUR BAADASSSSS!)
"If you can make asses look good, faces are a snap."

BABEL
An all-star international cacophony

BABIES
The first year of life, in all of its evolutionary glory

BAD GUY
Director Kim Ki-duk's tale of a sexual terrorist and his coed/whore

THE BALLAD OF JACK & ROSE
A father and daughter against the world

BALLETS RUSSES
From Russia, en pointe

BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS
During Maoist "re-education," two city boys open the eyes of a local beauty

THE BAND WAGON
Lighter-than-air comedy with stellar Astaire dance numbers

BANG RAJAN
It takes a village - to stand up against the enemy

THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
Daddy's dyin' and who's got the smack?

BATTLE IN HEAVEN
Mexico's rich and poor come together - in bed

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
Prophetic, provocative and groundbreaking

THE BAXTER
Come back to the five and dime, Bill Pullman, Bill Pullman

THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED
Fingers redux: A riveting & slick French remake of James Toback's first film

BEAUTIFUL CITY
Dead boy walking: "The pleasure which is in forgiveness is not found in revenge"

THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
From Vietnam to America, the elliptical odyssey of an outcast

THE BEAUTY ACADEMY OF KABUL
Extreme makeover - Afghani style

BEEN RICH ALL MY LIFE
Dancers discover the fountain of youth

BEE SEASON
E - L - L - I - P - T - I - C - A - L, elliptical

BEFORE SUNSET
In this follow-up to Before Sunrise, the talk fest continues

BEFORE THE FALL (NAPOLA)
Two German lads rebel against Nazi militarism

BE HERE TO LOVE ME
Songwriter Townes Van Zandt get his due in this posthumous tribute

BEHIND THE BURLY Q
A documentary about stripping doesn’t reveal enough

BEING JULIA
Brava Bening: A diva will not be scorned

BEND IT LIKE BECKAM
"This vibrant romp is the best of the recent British underdog comedies"

BEOWULF & GRENDEL
The high school English perennial revitalized

THE BEST OF YOUTH
All in the family: An intimate and moving contemporary epic

BEST WORST MOVIE
Good-bad movies and wasted lives

BEYOND THE ROCKS
Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino together for the first time in 70 years

BEYOND THE SEA
Tonight at the Copa, Mr. Bobby Darin

THE BIG ANIMAL
The dromedary who came in from the cold

BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET 20 YEARS LATER
The gang returns for one last score - without the zest

BLAZING SADDLES
"Excuse me while I whip this out."

BLIND SHAFT
A conniver in a coal mine

BLIND SPOT
An often-riveting act of contrition by Hitler's secretary

THE BLONDS
A filmmaker highlights her family's dark roots

THE BLOOD OF MY BROTHER
Iraq in wartime, from an Iraqi Shiite point of view

BLOW-UP
Making sense of merrymakers and murder

BLUEBEARD
A gory bedtime story not for children only

BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE
"First we'll have an orgy, then we'll go see Tony Bennett"

BOBBY JONES: STROKE OF GENIUS
From Savior to sport icon: Jim Caviezel's other title role from 2004

BOMB THE SYSTEM
It's as if Basquiat knocked up The Warriors and had a sophomore film student deliver the baby

BONHOEFFER
German pastor resists the Third Reich

BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI
Think Good Will Hunting, but better

BOOGIE WOOGIE
An artful social ballet in high society London

THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY
Ready or not, a sequel to the DVD cult hit/box-office flop

BORN INTO BROTHELS
Streetwise in Calcutta

BOYNTON BEACH CLUB
Golden girls & guys not letting the parade pass them by

BOYS BRIEFS 4: SIX SHORT FILMS ABOUT GUYS WHO HUSTLE
The subtitle says it all

THE BOYS OF BARAKA
Great - or lower - expectations in the projects of Baltimore

BRAN NUE DAE
Everyone sing along: “There’s nothing I would rather be than to be an Aborigine!”

BREAKFAST ON PLUTO
The fabulous life of a streetwalker

BREAKING NEWS
15 Minutes in a Dog Day Afternoon

BREAKING UPWARDS
The trials of young people on a young filmmaker’s budget

BREATH MADE VISIBLE
“I’ve always said that dance is the breath made visible”: modern dance master Anna Halprin

BRICK
A dead teenager drama-cum-film noir

BRIDE & PREJUDICE
Jane Austen with a sari

THE BRIDESMAID (LA DEMOISELLE D'HONNEUR)
Mama's boy + femme fatale = 2 deaths and counting

BRIGHT LEAVES
You can't go home again on Tobacco Road

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS
The party's over, darling

BRINGING UP BABY
Grant, Hepburn and a baby leopard on the loose

BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE
A trip down memory lane on the Great White Way

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
The lonesome West: Finding and losing love on the range

BROKEN FLOWERS
"It's strange how people's lives change, isn't it?"

BROKEN WINGS
Haifa-delity: An imploded Israeli family comes together

BROTHERHOOD
A gay neo-Nazi love story

BROTHERS
A Danish couple in over their heads in love & war

THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Terry Gilliam's self-conscious meditation on Terry Gilliam

BROTHERS IN ARMS
John Kerry, reporting to duty

BROTHERS OF THE HEAD
Who else but a bosom buddy will tell you how rotten you are?

BUBBLE
Steven Soderbergh changes gears in this insular working-class murder mystery

BUFFALO SOLDIERS
Shooting with blanks

BUGSY
The glossy gangster epic with 15 extra minutes

BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS
Blurry-eyed look at the late barfly poet

BURZYNSKI
A maverick cancer curing doctor vs. Big Pharma

BUSH'S BRAIN
The American Machiavelli

BUS 174
A Brazilian youth invisible no more

THE BUSTER KEATON COLLECTION
Ten two-reelers quickies short on subtlety

THE BUTTERFLY
That is as rare as a good friend

CABIN FEVER
Bloodbath (and laughter) in the woods

CACHÉ (HIDDEN)
A Paris couple star in their own Rear Window

CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
Hou Hsiao-hsien's minimalist memorial to the master Yasujiro Ozu

CAIRO TIME
Summertime among the pyramids

CALENDAR GIRLS
Knickers off!: 12 naked women

A CALL GIRL
Loving daughter, university student, successful whore

CAMP
"A guy like you can have a really lucky summer here"

CAPOTE
The bio of the man Norman Mailer called "the most perfect writer of my generation"

CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS
Rashomon meets The Crucible

CARANDIRU
Brazilian Big House ballistics

CARNAGE
Macabre musings

THE CARTEL
Anti-government rant of wasted public school dollars

THE CARY GRANT BOX SET
An indispensable collection: The icon in all his glory

CASA DE LOS BABYS
Cultura clash

CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY
How to win friends and influence people with a whole lot of cash

CAVITE
Kill or be killed, a sociopolitical Phone Booth

CELL 211
Caged heat explodes in a somber hostage drama more like Attica (and not Dog Day Afternoon)

CENTURION
Barbarians vs. the Romans: Not a bloody good time

CHAIN CAMERA
Passed from one high school student to another, the camera becomes a confessional

CHANGING TIMES
Catherine Deneuve & Gérard Depardieu reunite in Tangiers

CHICAGO
This sure ain't Oklahoma!

CHI-HWA-SEON (PAINTED FIRE)
Nineteenth century painter as rock star; winner of the Cannes Film Festival's best director award (2002)

THE CHORUS (LES CHORISTES)
Monsieur Mathieu's opus

CINEVARDAPHOTO
A charming and eclectic trip down memory lane

CITY OF GOD
"Directors Lund and Meirrelles grab hold of your attention and don’t let go"

THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION
A literal and literary nowhere man propped up by a stellar cast

THE CLAY BIRD
Like the object of the title, a young boy growing up in a madrasa yearns for freedom

CLEAN
Hong Kong action queen Maggie Cheung as a junkie

THE CLEARING
Where sap is not only in the woods

CLOSE YOUR EYES
See visions of hell and solve a crime

COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY
An awkwardly titled & conventional extra-marital affair

COFFEE AND CIGARETTES
An all-star indie improvisation class

COLD MOUNTAIN
Warm heart: love keeps the home fire burning

COLLATERAL DAMAGES/THE FIRST 24 HOURS
Firefighters of New York City: one year after 9/11

THE CONCERT
Tchaikovsky’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra with extra schmaltz

CONFIDENCE
Attitude is more like it

CONGO: WHITE KING, RED RUBBER, BLACK DEATH
The real Heart of Darkness: King Leopold II

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
Catholic conundrums

THE CONSTANT GARDENER
John le Carré's angry African thriller, by way of City of God

CONTROL ROOM
The war in Iraq through an Arab lens

CONVENTION
The Mile High City hosts a big party, riot police not optional

THE COOLER
Karma chameleon

THE CORPORATION
Psychopathic corporate capitalism

COTE D'AZUR
A frolicking French family's follies

COUNTDOWN TO ZERO
Armageddon coming to a city near you

COWARDS BEND THE KNEE
And abandon their girlfriends at the most inappropriate moments

CRASH
Brutal & blunt portrayal of Los Angeles as a shattered mosaic

CRAZY HEART
Playing a grizzled, disheveled, self-medicated Peter Pan brings Jeff Bridges down to his knees (and a well-deserved Oscar)

CRIMINAL
An American remake of Nine Queens

CRIMSON GOLD
Un Certain Regard Jury Award winner at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival

CRONICAS
For one reporter, a child serial killer is a story of a lifetime

CROPSEY
Absorbing, if not lurid, shocker about a real-life bogeyman

CROSSING THE BRIDGE: THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL
A tour along the Bosporus strait through music

CRUMB
Director Terry Zwigoff profiles his friend, illustrator Robert Crumb, without boundaries

CUBA: ISLAND OF MUSIC
Girls! Girls! Girls!

CYRUS
Seriously, stop @#&% my mumblecore