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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Reviewer: Jeffrey Anderson
Rating (out of 5): ****
There are romance movies and then there’s Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. There’s just nothing else quite like it. I suppose that you could apply the “magical realism” trend of the 1990s, but even that isn’t strong enough; the wispy quality of those movies doesn’t come close to the [...]

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La Mission

A reformed ex-convict and lowrider car aficionado kicks his beloved son out of the house after discovering that the boy has been living a secret life in Sundance Film Festival veteran Peter Bratt’s heartfelt family drama. Che (Benjamin Bratt) is out of prison and on the straight and narrow. Still, every day is a struggle [...]

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Louie Bluie and Crumb

Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. As beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors [...]

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The Good the Bad the Weird

As the Korean peninsula falls into the hands of Japanese imperialists and countless Koreans seek refuge in the vast wilderness of Manchuria, a determined thief, a cold-blooded hitman, and a mysterious bounty hunter all vie for an elusive map that could lead them to a buried treasure from the Qing Dynasty. [...]

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Ajami

Palestinian Scandar Copti and Israeli Yaron Shani collaborated on this independent drama, which examines how the troubled relationship between their countries colors everyday life in the Middle East. Nasri (Fouad Hab ash) is a teenager whose family is in crisis: his uncle got into an altercation with a local crime boss, and in reprisal, his [...]

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The Square

Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson
Rating (out of 5): ***½
Australian actor Joel Edgerton is probably best known as the young Owen Lars in two of the recent Star Wars films. His younger brother Nash Edgerton has worked as a stuntman. Together they have made a series of short films, and now they team up — with Joel [...]

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Mary and Max

Max Jerry Horovitz wants a friend. Mary Daisy Dinkle wants the same. Only problem is, Max, an obese Jew with Aspergers syndrome and a compulsion to gorge himself silly on chocolate hotdogs (a homemade recipe), lives in New York, while Mary, an eight-year-old girl with a large poop-colored birthmark on her forehead [...]

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Prodigal Sons

In this award-winning personal documentary, filmmaker Kimberly Reed attempts to reconcile with her long-estranged brother Marc, who has seen her as a rival since childhood. Their paths diverged long ago: Marc was permanently debilitated in a car accident, and Kim left their small-town roots on a journey of self-discovery. PRODIGAL SONS travels from high school [...]

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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

1971–Daniel Ellsberg, a top-level Vietnam War strategist, concludes the war is based on a decade of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to the The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.
Reviewer: Erin Donovan
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