Film
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Interview: Maïwenn
France’s monomonikered triple threat lays down the law in Polisse
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Review: The Dictator
Can prankster Sacha Baron Cohen stick to the script?
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The Hot Seat: Maggie Gyllenhaal
In Hysteria, the Brooklyn mom stars in a sex-toy origin tale
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Review: Beyond the Black Rainbow
A welcome attempt to bring back the head-trippy days of Eraserhead
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Critics’ picks
The Dictator
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
Sacha Baron Cohen skewers foreign policy and organic groceries (among many other targets) in this rude, crude gutbuster.
Beyond the Black Rainbow
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
This hallucinogenic sci-fi throwback to vintage midnight-movie madness is a head trip and a half.
Elena
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
An honest woman, torn between her ailing husband's wealth and a needy son, must reckon with a terrible choice.
Grand Illusion
- Rated as: 5/5
- Critics choice
Jean Renoir’s antiwar classic celebrates its diamond anniversary with a sparkling new print.
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Battleship
- Rated as: 2/5
For the sake of passionate defenders of 1985’s Clue (you can do worse), let’s not come down too...
Polisse
- Rated as: 3/5
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one: Consider the flatfoots assigned to Paris’s Child Protection...
Mansome
- Rated as: 2/5
What’s it mean to be a man in our modern age? Has the so-called feminization of men via grooming,...
Virginia
- Rated as: 2/5
She may be a poor paranoid schizophrenic stranded in a sleepy Southern beach town, but at least...
What to Expect When You're Expecting
- Rated as: 2/5
Any movie that opens with Cameron Diaz tossing her cookies on the set of a Dancing with the...
Hysteria
- Rated as: 2/5
Whirring along like clockwork with less-than-orgasmic results, this Victorian-era comedy about the...
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
- Rated as: 3/5
Chosen to become a guide dog because of his even temperament and intelligence, a yellow Labrador...
Lovely Molly
- Rated as: 2/5
Sometimes a good idea is hard to improve on. So it was when filmmaker Eduardo Sánchez, working with...
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