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   An Education -- Film Review

   12:25 pm 1/21/2009

   • by James Greenberg

   Every now and then a performance comes along that takes Sundance by storm. This year, it's Carey Mulligan's star-making turn as a 16-year-old schoolgirl who falls under the spell an older man in early '60s London in "An Education."Read more

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   Film Review: Once More With Feeling

   4:59 pm 1/20/2009

   • by Justin Lowe

   Unabashedly sentimental and distinctly retro, "Once More With Feeling" is an old-fashioned family dramedy -- practically a rarity these days.Read more

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   Film Review: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

   2:23 pm 1/20/2009

   • by James Greenberg

   "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" is one hell of a date movie. A surgical examination of the male psyche based on David Foster Wallace's book and written and directed by John Krasinski, there is plenty of food for thought and argument.Read more

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   Film Review: Adventureland

   1:21 pm 1/20/2009

   • by Duane Byrge

   In the ongoing tradition of "American Graffiti" and "Fast Times as Ridgemont High," "Adventureland" will be a high grader at the boxoffice and in rental.Read more

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   Film Review: Five Minutes of Heaven

   1:15 pm 1/20/2009

   • by Kirk Honeycutt

   "Five Minutes of Heaven" is based on a true story -- that never happened. That might explain why the film circles and circles its subject but never strikes dramatic pay dirt.Read more

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   Film Review: Cold Souls

   5:36 pm 1/19/2009

   • by Justin Lowe

   A dark comedy with a piquant metaphysical bite, this assured feature from writer-director Sophie Barthes imaginatively joins a high-concept script with a distinctive visual style.Read more

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   Film Review: Adam

   4:29 pm 1/19/2009

   • by Kirk Honeycutt

   In attempting to create a romantic film around a character with Asperger's syndrome, writer-director Max Mayer tempts the cinema gods. The result could easily have been pure treacle or just very tacky. "Adam," fortunately, is neither.Read more

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   Film Review: Endgame

   2:28 pm 1/19/2009

   • by Kirk Honeycutt

   Add to the growing list of movies attempting to explain the vile apartheid governing system in South Africa and its eventual demise this striking new movie, "Endgame."Read more

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   World's Greatest Dad -- Film Review

   2:01 pm 1/19/2009

   • by Duane Byrge

   Robin Williams leaps off a high dive in the nude at the end of "World's Greatest Dad." Not an inspiring sight. That's an apt metaphor for what he has done professionally in this dunderheaded delirium from writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait.Read more

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    Film Review: I Love You Phillip Morris

    10:30 am 1/19/2009

    • by Duane Byrge

    "I Love You Phillip Morris" is of the ethereal-absurdist-gay-romantic-biographical farce genre, which begs the question: "How are you going to market this?" Basically, just say Jim Carrey struts his stuff in this engaging oddity.Read more

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