Anders Walter's I Kill Giants, based on Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura's graphic novel, is a moody, full-hearted tale of a preteen girl who believes that she's the only
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At times unbearably intimate, even invasive, Raymond Depardon's 12 Days is the kind of film you might wonder, as you watch, whether you should be watching. I'm glad
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You would never know it from the movies, but the Tomb Raider video games have, for the most part, offered a quiet, even thoughtful experience. For 20 years followin
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Friday, March 16The Fallen Idol may not be quite as well known as director Carol Reed's postwar masterpiece, The Third Man, but it has an even stronger emotiona
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Considering his prodigious filmography and armfuls of acting accolades, Forest Whitaker's portrayal of Desmond Tutu in the mesmerizingly tense new thriller The
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Critics talk a lot about tone? or, rather, the vibe or attitude of a movie ? whether it's breezy, paranoiac, heartfelt, cerebral, manic, comic, oddball, melancholic
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I'm just like you, the hunky Simon of Love, Simon insists in this likable film's first moments. He declares this over cheery footage, bright as commercials for laun
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Like the friendship at its heart, Cory Finley's superbly controlled rich-kid murder-noir Thoroughbreds gets more complex and intense as it develops. The leads are a
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The 2008 horror movie The Strangers, which found Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman being terrorized in a remote country house by three creepily masked young people, was
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Friday, March 9 The Adventures of Robin Hood swoops into the Billy Wilder Theater to restore a measure of innocence to the jaded moviegoer. Splendidly operatic in st
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Both Chelsea Handler and Issa Rae praised the example of Shonda Rhimes as a large, mostly female crowd packed into Koreatown nonprofit the Art of Elysium on Wednesd
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What is wrong with us?At a late-morning Sunday showing of Eli Roth's Death Wish remake, a theater of about 65 people taking advantage of half-price matinee tickets
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