Night School showcases both the perils and rewards of the high-concept comedy. The idea practically sells itself: Kevin Hart has to take night classes to get his hi
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Kevin Kerslake's Bad Reputation attempts to reveal the visionary mind underneath Joan Jett's black shag. Like most documentaries about artists, Kerslake assembles a
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Saturday, Sept. 29Beyond Fest kicks into high gear with a screening of David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers. Significantly less yucky than the Canadian horrormeister&
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Writer-director Reinaldo Marcus Green's triptych drama Monsters and Men, about the intersections of cops and civilians in New York City, is one of a number of new fi
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Beyond Fest at the Egyptian Theatre has truly gone beyond expectations this year, showcasing its most impressive and subversive selections ever.The festival has tak
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The year's best and strangest and most searching heist movie, Alonso Ruizpalacios' Museo, among many other things, offers an inspired inversion of the fantasy of Ind
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In its first 15 minutes or so, writer-director David Lowery's The Old Man & the Gun looks on track to be that rarest of things, a Hollywood throwback every bit
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I gasped five times during E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's no-gear mountain-climbing study, Free Solo. For one minutes-long stretch near the end, as we beho
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The Western may be a uniquely American film tradition, but the genre has often been at its best in the hands of foreign directors who examine that era of outlaws an
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I'm Antonio, and I'm going to draw you, girl! This is model and author Pat Cleveland's earliest memory of meeting Antonio Lopez. It's something Lope
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It's comic, at times, how little science there is in Science Fair, Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster's breezily compelling documentary about high school student
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The only advice I have to offer for getting through this life is this: When it all's gone sour, go to YouTube and type Gilda Radner talk dirty to the animals. Up co
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