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JANUARY 20, 2013
Délice Paloma
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsMadame Aldjéria is a charismatic "fixer" in Algeria who helps her clients with requests, from finding romantic companions to framing innocent people. But one day, the crafty con artist launches a scam that may prove to be her undoing.
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Growing Op
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter years of being home-schooled by his earnest, post-hippie, pot-growing parents, Quinn (Steven Yaffee) decides to jump from the nest and give himself a normal high school experience. He quickly learns, however, that there's nothing normal about high school. When the teen falls for a beautiful blonde neighbor (Rachel Blanchard), he realizes he'll have to make some compromises to get what he wants -- once he's sure what that is.
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How to Cook Your Life
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsGerman filmmaker Doris Dörrie documents a summer in the life of renowned Zen practitioner and cook Edward Espe Brown as he teaches culinary classes in Zen centers in Austria and California, revealing the role food plays in our bodies and spirits.
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In the Beginning
2009 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsCareer con man Paul (François Cluzet) is enjoying the profits of his latest scam -- in which he's passed himself off as the foreman of a highway extension construction site -- when a lady mayor (Emmanuelle Devos) makes him rethink his criminal ways. Suddenly alive to a world of feelings thanks to his growing interest in the lovely village boss, Paul wants to make things right with his victims -- who, unfortunately, populate an entire region.
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Le Héros de la Famille
2006 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAging drag queen Gabriel, known as Gabriella at the Parisian nightclub he manages, dies in his sleep one night, setting off a scramble among his friends and family over his will. Among those with vested interests is Gabriel's "surrogate son," Nicky.
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Male Domination
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAre today's men eager for a reconsideration of traditional gender roles, returning to the days when they were the sole breadwinners and their wives stayed home? In this documentary, director Patric Jean seeks answers to questions about masculinity, exploring such phenomena as women who seek dominant men, and men who choose to surgically enhance their penises. What does it mean to be a man in the 21st century?
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Moscow, Belgium
2008 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsAfter a fateful fender bender brings them together, Matty, a middle-aged mother of three with a wandering husband, decides to take a chance on Johnny, a handsome 29-year-old who falls for her.
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Nuages Sur la Ville
2009 | NR | 2.0 out of 5 StarsThis French-language drama explores the challenges of creating art in the 21st century as seen through the eyes of Jean-Paul (real-life filmmaker Jean Pierre Lefebvre), a practicing writer who feels hopelessly disconnected from the world around him.
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Offside
2006 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn director Jafar Panahi's offbeat Iranian tale, several girls find themselves arrested after posing as boys to sneak into a soccer stadium to see a key international qualifying match. It's illegal for Iranian women to attend sports events, so the gate-crashers end up in a holding pen waiting for authorities. But a sympathetic guard watching through a peephole describes the action for the girls, who are eager to know what's happening in the game.
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Planet B-Boy
2007 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsThis Tribeca Film Festival selection affords viewers exclusive access to the underground world of break dancing, charting the highs and lows of five B-boy teams practicing for the all-important "Battle of the Year." Combining stunning dance footage from Japan, Germany, South Korea, France and the United States, documentarian Benson Lee sets out to show that break dancing didn't fade into history -- it merely evolved into a remarkable art form.
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Romanzo Criminale
2005 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsThis award-winning gangster epic follows the careers of three childhood buddies -- led by cold-blooded Libano (Pierfrancesco Favino) -- who turn to crime early and make their way to the top of Rome's underworld in brutal fashion. On the right side of the law, the dogged Inspector Sciajola (Stefano Accorsi) works to bring the gang down. However, he also harbors a dangerous attraction to Patrizia (Anna Mouglalis), the girlfriend of one of his targets.
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
2006 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsThe aspects of love play out against the splendor of Hampstead Heath in this provocative meditation on sex and relationships from BAFTA-nominated director Ed Blum. On a perfectly sunny afternoon, seven couples go through the motions of everyday living and loving, including two gay men grappling with fatherhood and an aging husband and wife reflecting on their past loves. Ewan McGregor and Eileen Atkins head a star-studded ensemble cast.
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Steep
2007 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsFrom its wild early days in the French Alps to its wild present the world over, extreme skiing is chronicled in breathtaking detail by filmmaker Mark Obenhaus. You'll meet the superstars of big-mountain skiing, who defy death with every jump. Obenhaus follows the work of renowned skier Doug Coombs, as well as the careers of pioneers Anselme Baud and Patrick Vallencant. The documentary screened at AFI Fest and the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007.
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Still Life
2006 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsTwo couples reunite amid the construction of a new neighborhood along the Yangtze River near the old city of Fengjie, which is now under water after the opening of the Three Gorges Dam. After 16 years apart, Han Sanming returns to look for his ex-wife, while Shen Hong has come back in search of her husband who's been away for more than two years. Like the submerged city, the couples must decide what's worth saving and what's best left behind.
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The White Masai
2005 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen young Swiss woman Carola Lehmann (Nina Hoss) goes on vacation to Kenya with her boyfriend, she becomes deeply fascinated by Masai tribesman Lemalian Mamutelil (Jacky Ido) -- so much so, in fact, that she ends up abandoning her traveling mate to join him. To make this radical choice a success, Carola must adopt the Masai lifestyle -- including taking on what they perceive to be the proper roles and behavior of women.
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Villa Amalia
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this moody character study from French director Benoît Jacquot, Anne (Isabelle Huppert) discovers her husband's infidelity and begins to carefully disassemble her neatly ordered life, cutting ties to the present in order to reconnect with her past. Is Anne on a mission of self-reinvention or self-negation? With an old acquaintance (Jean-Hugues Anglade) as her only confidant, Anne plays her emotions and intentions close to the vest til the end.
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Vital Signs
2009 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsAfter her grandmother passes away, Simone (Marie-Helene Bellavance) tries to bury her grief by helping others who are near death. Albeit short-lived, these intense relationships with people who crave intimacy more than anything else help Simone access her own emotional needs. Writer-director Sophie Deraspe's moving drama examines the connection between the frail human body and the resilient but often well-guarded soul.
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JANUARY 18, 2013
The Salt of Life
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsRather than living the good life he'd imagined, newly retired Gianni spends his days running errands for those around him. Bemoaning his fate, he decides to take a mistress -- a task that proves easier said than done in this wistful comedy.
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The Woman in the Fifth
2011 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhen Yankee scribe Tom Ricks moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter, he quickly finds the City of Lights to be a special and miserable place. Robbed and broke, Tom slowly climbs out of le gutter with the help of a beautiful and kind new friend.
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JANUARY 17, 2013
Just Go with It
2011 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsWhen plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee lies to his girlfriend that he is a divorced family man, he recruits his office manager and her children to role-play as his ex-wife and kids -- generating a flood of farcical results and unintended consequences.
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Miss Marple : Le cheval pâle
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsMiss Marple tries to shed light on the murder of her friend Father Gorman who was killed soon after hearing a dying woman's confession.
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The Rite
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsDespite his conviction that demonic possession is superstitious mumbo jumbo, a Catholic priest-in-training travels to Rome to attend an exorcism school at the Vatican. But soon true-believer Father Lucas introduces the young cleric to Satan's power.
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JANUARY 16, 2013
Kahaani
2012 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsPregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems. All clues seem to reach a dead end when everyone tries to convince her that her husband does not exist.
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Screwed
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsIn this crime drama based on a true story, a soldier who served a traumatic tour in Iraq gets a job as a prison guard and is drawn into an underworld of corruption, drug trafficking and brutality.
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JANUARY 15, 2013
Dawn of the Dragon Slayer
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsAfter Will's father is killed by a dragon, he embarks on an epic journey to seek vengeance against the vicious monster. But while undergoing intense training on how to slay the beast, he uncovers a mysterious family connection.
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