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Movie Review | 'Fix': A Single, Frantic Day

Published 19 hours ago by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS at NYT > Movies

“Fix” dashes headlong through Los Angeles with a little charm and a lot of verve.

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Movie Review | 'Defamation': The Past in the Present

Published 19 hours ago by By NEIL GENZLINGER at NYT > Movies

In his disorganized and somewhat annoying “Defamation,” Yoav Shamir, an Israeli filmmaker, tries to stir up a tempest.

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Movie Review | 'The Missing Person': Probing Psychological Wounds

Published 20 hours ago by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS at NYT > Movies

“The Missing Person” is a moody, modern-day noir about derailed lives and suppressed memories.

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Movie Review | 'Staten Island, New York': Gazing Longingly at Manhattan

Published 20 hours ago by By ANDY WEBSTER at NYT > Movies

If “Staten Island, New York” is an ode to what it calls “the forgotten stepchild of Manhattan,” it is a barbed and quirky one.

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Movie Review | 'My Dear Enemy': Feelings Close to the Surface

Published 20 hours ago by By MIKE HALE at NYT > Movies

Lee Yoon-ki’s “My Dear Enemy” may confound your expectations of a South Korean film.

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Movie Review | 'Planet 51': A Misunderstood Alien, but Not as Smart as E.T.

Published 21 hours ago by By STEPHEN HOLDEN at NYT > Movies

The agreeable but flagrantly unoriginal “Planet 51” belongs to the mix-and-match school of animated moviemaking.

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Film Series and Movie Listings

Published 21 hours ago by By THE NEW YORK TIMES at NYT > Movies

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Movie Review | 'The Blind Side': Steamrolling Over Life’s Obstacles With Family as Cheerleaders

Published 21 hours ago by By A. O. SCOTT at NYT > Movies

“The Blind Side” is a movie made up almost entirely of turning points and yet curiously devoid of drama or suspense.

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Movie Review | 'Mammoth': Bourgeois Bohemians, There’s a Price to Pay

Published 23 hours ago by By MANOHLA DARGIS at NYT > Movies

In “Mammoth,” when a rich child eats her lunch in New York, a poor boy in the Philippines cries.

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Oscar Short List of Documentaries Draws Controversy

Published 23 hours ago by By MICHAEL CIEPLY at NYT > Movies

A screening committee from the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences overlooked at least a half-dozen prominent films.

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Movie Review | 'Broken Embraces': Almodóvar’s Happy Agony, Swirling Amid Jealousy and Revenge

Published 24 hours ago by By A. O. SCOTT at NYT > Movies

Can there be such a thing as exuberant melancholy? I can’t think of another way to describe the spirit of “Broken Embraces.”

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Movie Review | 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans': A New Orleans Mystery: A Cop So Bad, He’s Good

Published 24 hours ago by By A. O. SCOTT at NYT > Movies

Pain, addiction and craziness fuel “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.”

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Movie Review | 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon': Abstinence Makes the Heart ... Oh, You Know

Published 24 hours ago by By MANOHLA DARGIS at NYT > Movies

The big tease turns into the long goodbye in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”

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Film: Opening Wide His (Repaired) Heart

Published 27 hours ago by By DAVE ITZKOFF at NYT > Movies

After heart surgery, the comedian Robin William has become more introspective and more grateful for what he has.

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Movie Review | 'The War on Kids': What Ails Public Schools? Better Ask, What Doesn’t?

Published 2 days ago by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS at NYT > Movies

A shocking chronicle of institutional dysfunction, “The War on Kids” likens our public school system to prison and its disciplinary methods to fascism.

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A Surprise Gets Buzz for Oscars

Published 2 days ago by By MICHAEL CIEPLY at NYT > Movies

“Crazy Heart,” a low-budget film about a washed-up country singer, finds itself at the heart of the Oscar race.

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Movie Review | 'The War on Kids': What Ails Public Schools? Better Ask, What Doesn’t?

Published 2 days ago by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS at NYT > Movies

A shocking chronicle of institutional dysfunction, “The War on Kids” likens our public school system to prison and its disciplinary methods to fascism.

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Movie Review | 'The Sun': When Dusk Finally Settled on the Emperor

Published 2 days ago by By MANOHLA DARGIS at NYT > Movies

Alexander Sokurov’s “The Sun” looks at the emperor Hirohito in the murk of Japan’s surrender.

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Movie Review | 'Red Cliff': It’s Good Guys vs. Bad Guys on a China-Size Scale

Published 2 days ago by By MIKE HALE at NYT > Movies

With “Red Cliff,” the director John Woo goes back to his violent roots.

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Essay: Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012

Published 3 days ago by By DENNIS OVERBYE at NYT > Movies

Scientists give many reasons not to worry about predictions based on the Mayan calendar that the world will end in three years.

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A Writer Tries to Take the High Road as the Low Jokes Fly

Published 4 days ago by By MICHAEL CIEPLY at NYT > Movies

In a panel discussion on “The Future of Funny,” the writer Ken Auletta found engaging Judd Apatow was different from talking with Barry Diller.

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Hollywood Dinner Has Oscars on Menu

Published 4 days ago by By MICHAEL CIEPLY at NYT > Movies

Something remarkable happened at the new awards ceremony sponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences: Hollywood let its guard down.

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In Search of a Father in Search of the Blues

Published 4 days ago by By BEN SISARIO at NYT > Movies

Music critics’ lives don’t often inspire much fascination. But Robert Palmer, the chief popular music critic of The New York Times in the 1980s, was different.

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‘2012’ Leads Box Office With $65 Million Opening

Published 5 days ago by By BROOKS BARNES at NYT > Movies

Roland Emmerich’s thriller about a global cataclysm opened at No. 1 with a higher-than-expected $65 million in ticket sales.

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A Teacher’s Dream Gets to the Screen

Published 5 days ago by By D. Z. STONE at NYT > Movies

Robert Kaplow, who teaches English at a high school in Summit, N.J., wrote a novel, “Me and Orson Welles,” that has just been made into a movie.

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Home of the Mouse Finds Box Office Success in the Land of the Bear

Published 6 days ago by By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ at NYT > Movies

“The Book of Masters” is Disney’s first attempt at a film specifically for a Russian-speaking audience.

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Burdened by Billions in Debt, MGM Puts Itself Up for Sale

Published 6 days ago by By BROOKS BARNES at NYT > Movies

Estimates for the studio, which owns a 4,000-title film library, range from $1.5 billion to almost $3 billion.

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Film: Madness or Method? Tough to Tell

Published 6 days ago by By MANOHLA DARGIS at NYT > Movies

With “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” I was reminded of how exhilarating it can be to watch an actor go far and then just a little too far.

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Film: Media Vampires, Beware

Published 6 days ago by By BROOKS BARNES at NYT > Movies

For Kristen Stewart, life is not easy as a teen idol, but she has learned to dodge the limelight.

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DVDs: Russian Story, German Director, Hollywood Film

Published 7 days ago by By DAVE KEHR at NYT > Movies

A look at Douglas Sirk’s dark, doom-laden social drama “Summer Storm,” a Blu-ray edition of “The Prisoner” and more.

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Television: Filming a Friendship, Founded on Film

Published 7 days ago by By MATT ZOLLER SEITZ at NYT > Movies

“No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos,” to be shown Tuesday on “Independent Lens” on PBS, is an account of the long friendship between two influential filmmakers.

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Film: Taking a Man, Then Removing His Myth

Published 7 days ago by By DENNIS LIM at NYT > Movies

The dour reputation of the filmmaker Alexander Sokurov belies the beguiling strangeness of some of his work.

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Film: Filmmakers’ Controversy: Their Dad

Published 7 days ago by By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM at NYT > Movies

Two sisters have captured their father’s long and tumultuous career the documentary “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe.”

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Movie Review | 'The End of Poverty?': Breaking Down Economic Breakdown

Published 7 days ago by By NEIL GENZLINGER at NYT > Movies

Why Philippe Diaz has titled his documentary “The End of Poverty?” is unclear, because this guilt trip/history lesson is really about the beginning of poverty.

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