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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Lianna
1983 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsLianna becomes fed up with her marriage to her cheating husband and begins an affair with Ruth, her night school professor. But Lianna's joy at finding a new life and love soon disintegrates as the people around her start to treat her differently.
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Neal Cassady
2006 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsNoah Buschel directs this film that dramatizes the real-life fallout Jack Kerouac's landmark novel On the Road had on Neal Cassady (Tate Donovan), the beat generation adventurer who inspired the book's unforgettable wanderer, Dean Moriarty. Struggling to emulate his larger-than-life literary alter ego, Cassady joins Ken Kesey's (Chris Bauer) acid-dropping Merry Pranksters but ultimately sabotages his relationships with Kerouac (Glenn Fitzgerald) and his own family.
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Our Song
2000 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsExperiencing growing pains while they're on summer vacation, three inner-city teenage girls with hectic schedules make life-changing decisions in this engrossing drama that encapsulates the untold difficulties of urban living.
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Passing Strange
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsA young black musician named Stew (played by singer-songwriter Stew himself) flees his comfortable middle-class roots in Los Angeles for a soul-searching journey to Europe and gets wrapped up in the music scene of 1980s Amsterdam and West Berlin. The one-of-a-kind Broadway musical, which netted Stew a Tony for Best Book, comes to cinematic life courtesy of film icon Spike Lee. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
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Radio Bikini
1988 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis Oscar-nominated documentary chronicles the eye-opening story of Bikini Atoll, which in 1946 was the site of U.S. atomic bomb tests that left the island uninhabitable for 40 years and exposed thousands of sailors to heavy doses of radiation.
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Solo Con Tu Pareja
1991 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsYoung yuppie playboy Tomás (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) looks for a quick death after being falsely diagnosed with AIDS by Silvia (Dobrina Liubomirova), a nurse cheated by the young Casanova. While trying to end his life, Tomás falls in love with Clarisa (Claudia Ramirez), a beautiful stewardess who's also trying to kill herself. This is the first feature film for director Alfonso Cuaron, who co-wrote the script with his brother Carlos Cuaron.
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Spring Forward
1999 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsSpring Forward focuses on the friendship between two men who work for the parks department in a small New England town. His first day on the job, Paul (Liev Schreiber), a skittish ex-con looking for a second chance, is partnered with Murph (Ned Beatty), a grizzled veteran who's nearing retirement. The two seem to have little in common ... but over the course of a year, shared confidences draw them closer together.
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Stolen
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAs this indie thriller unfolds through flashbacks, the mummified, half-century-old remains of a boy found in a box at a construction site yield key clues to the disappearance of the investigating detective's son eight years earlier.
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The Headhunter's Sister
1997 | NR | 1.9 out of 5 StarsRay (Bob McGrath) is paid to woo lawyers from their firms, and new Colombian wife Teresa (Isabel Robayo) works as a phone-sex operator, but their own language barrier has them barely speaking. Then Ray's square-peg sister, Linda (Elizabeth Schofield), pays a visit, breaking the silence in novel ways. In this indie comedy-drama set in New York City, Linda falls in with an addict, Teresa's eye wanders and Ray copes with failing health and home.
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The Journey
1997 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsCultural tensions simmer to the surface in this drama from director Harish Saluja, when retired schoolteacher Kishan (Roshan Seth) leaves India and moves to Pittsburgh, Penn. to live with his physican son (Antony Zaki), his wife (Carrie Preston) and their young daughter, Jenny (Nora Bates). Barely tolerated by the rest of the family, Kishan forms a tight bond with Jenny -- until the girl goes missing on Kishan's watch.
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Trigger Happy
2001 | NR | 2.3 out of 5 StarsMichael Weatherly, Rosario Dawson and New York City co-star in this dramedy about the adventures of a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun and the 22 people whose lives it touches. Some are friends, some are strangers, but the gun knows them all. The pawnshop owner who first sells the weapon grumpily defends the rights of gun-toting Americans, some of whom are thrilled to have their first firearm, while others regard it as a necessary evil.
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Vernon, Florida
1981 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsConducting interviews with the denizens of a small backwoods town, documentarian Errol Morris mixes it up with such quirky residents as a diehard wild-turkey hunter, an elderly couple who vacationed at a nuclear test site and a worm farmer.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Boogie Woogie
2009 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsA star-studded cast brings the eccentricities of the contemporary London art scene to life in this character-driven satire, which centers on Piet Mondrian's iconic painting -- who owns it and who wants to possess it.
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JULY 06, 2010
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JUNE 16, 2010
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MAY 19, 2010
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NOVEMBER 11, 2008
Mister Foe
2007 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsIn a darkly twisted plot, teenage voyeur Hallam Foe spies on his stepmother through binoculars, finding himself irresistibly attracted to her even as he becomes convinced that she murdered his mother.
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SEPTEMBER 02, 2008
Water Lilies
2007 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsA Caméra d'Or contender at Cannes, this coming-of-age drama from first-time feature film director Céline Sciamma tracks the sexual awakenings of three female friends over the course of a single summer. Finding privacy in the solitude of the swimming pool locker room, blossoming teens Marie (Pauline Acquart), Anne (Louise Blachère) and Floriane (Adele Haenel) come to learn the true meaning of arousal and the power of sexual attraction.
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JUNE 17, 2008
Super High Me
2007 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsDetermined to find out the true effects of cannabis on the human body, stand-up comedian and former Stoner of the Year Doug Benson chronicles his experience as he avoids pot for a month and then consumes massive amounts of the drug for 30 days.
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MAY 06, 2008
A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
2006 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsIn this Tribeca Film Festival selection, director Esther Robinson paints an affecting portrait of her uncle, Danny Williams -- a talented young artist and former lover of pop-culture icon Andy Warhol -- who inexplicably vanished at age 27. Highlights include footage from Williams' 16mm films and interviews with colorful Factory personalities such as Brigid Berlin, John Cale, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey and Billy Name.
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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsFilmmaker Daniel Anker examines Hollywood's depiction of the Holocaust and its incomprehensible atrocities in this award-winning documentary narrated by Gene Hackman and featuring interviews with Steven Spielberg and Sidney Lumet. Through film clips, newsreels, scholars' comments and firsthand accounts, the documentary also questions the responsibility of filmmakers in retelling history and the effects of film portrayals on the social psyche.
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APRIL 29, 2008
Living Goddess
2007 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsThis documentary filmed in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley examines the lives of three young girls who are believed to be reincarnated goddesses -- and are worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike.
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