All Movies
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Review: 'Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer'
Documentary captures O'Day's giant artistry as well as her eccentricities and struggle with drugs.
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Review: 'Sukiyaki Western Django'
This riff on spaghetti westerns gets a Japanese twist as two Samurai fight it out over a batch of gold.
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Review: 'Traitor'
Latest 'war on terror' movie falls down in casting likable Don Cheadle as a mass bomber.
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Review: 'The House Bunny'
Screwball comedy has a former Playboy bunny teaching dour intellectual sorority girls about makeup and men.
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Sounding out character in movies
Movie sound design proves more art than science.
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Review: 'I.O.U.S.A.'
Documentary about America's monstrous national debt is this year's 'An Inconvenient Truth.'
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Review: 'Hamlet 2'
Irreverent comedy about a nutty drama teacher's remake of Will's play skids off rails.
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Review: 'The Rocker'
A superannuated, would-be rock star is so passionate about his second chance at stardom you want to cheer him on in this oddball comedy.
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Review: 'Henry Poole Is Here'
Some touching moments in this tale of a man who doesn't believe in miracles but desperately needs one.
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Review: 'Tropic Thunder'
Daring satire pushes buttons as it parodies the moviemaking business.
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Review: 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Set in sun-burnished Spain, Woody Allen's latest offering celebrates as well as pokes fun at hot-blooded Latin stereotypes.
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Review: 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars'
New series of animated 'Star Wars' adventures retraces old ground with the same leaden dialogue as the originals.
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Review: 'Pineapple Express'
Black comedy about the adventures of two potheads is fitfully amusing but over the top on gross-out gore.
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Review: 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2'
Sisterhood sequel boasts same sporty cast but little emotional depth.
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Review: 'Elegy'
Based on a Philip Roth novel, 'Elegy' traces the passionate entanglement of an aging professor with a strikingly beautiful student, played by Penélope Cruz.
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Review: 'Red'
A dog's killing leads the owner to seek first restitution and ultimately revenge.
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Review: 'Man on Wire'
Documentary about the French wire walker who walked between the World Trade Center towers, 110 stories up, examines the heroic and flat-out crazy aspects of the feat.
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Review: 'The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'
Latest Mummy movie races through the catacombs of ancient China, with yetis and terra-cotta armies not far behind.
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Review: 'Swing Vote'
Political comedy uses wild premise to serve up a civics lessons without much substance.
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Review: 'Frozen River'
Affecting drama about a mother who smuggles illegal immigrants from Canada to the US has startlingly good acting.
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