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Fear(s) of the Dark

A black-and-white portmanteau animation written and directed by first-timers better known for work in comics seems like a recipe for tedium, and there are moments when ‘Fear(s) of the Dark’...

Good Dick

Video-store geeks, pornography and reclusive weirdos: all staple indie movie themes this comedy embraces with gusto. Jason Ritter is the nameless, homeless clerk who regularly rents erotica to a...

Jar City

“A typical Icelandic murder, messy and pointless,” one investigator says early in Jar City—and even if such a typicality is news to you, you’re inclined to...

Linha de Passe

Walter Salles’ first film since ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ was shot in São Paulo and is about four brothers from a poor...

Somers Town

***** (Five stars)
This entertaining film documents a young British runaway’s unusual friendship with a shy Polish boy in London. The main characters, Tomo and Marek, provide...

The Wave

Although based on a real-life incident at a California high school in 1967, this story of a classroom experiment assessing the ongoing appeal of fascist ideology gains an extra frisson from being...