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Fear(s) of the Dark

Competent but uninspired French animation
Of the stories we’re offered, the best is a mean little sketch of a psychotic old man roaming the countryside with a pack of wild dogs on a leash.  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 28, 2008

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Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

An excellent and frightening documentary
Barack Obama is darn lucky that Lee Atwater, who died in 1991, isn’t around to lead the Republican dirty-tricks department.  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 25, 2008

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Frontrunners

A very entertaining documentary
Comparisons with Alexander Payne’s Election won’t fly.  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 25, 2008

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Saving Marriage

Dramatic moments of the gay-and-lesbian struggle that escaped our newspapers
Roth and Henning, dedicated partisans, were everywhere with their cameras in those historic years 2003–2006.  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 15, 2008

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Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War

A ruminative experimental mosaic
Is there some poison in the air of the Balkans, as one individual asserts, that breeds eternal ethnic bloodletting?  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 16, 2008

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Days and Clouds

Well shot but predictably depressing
Not exactly the escape movie the doctor ordered from abroad for our own economic miseries.  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 09, 2008

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Religulous

Unabashedly agnostic and skeptical
He’s as cocky and smarmy as Michael Moore, but somehow Bill Maher is also more endearing and credible, as he prances about the globe making jest of sanctimonious true believers.  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 02, 2008

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Allah Made Me Funny

But not that funny.
Muslim comedy is still a work-in-progress, to judge by this videotaped rendition of a three-man stand-up comedy show of Muslim-American jokesters.  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 01, 2008

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Blindness

An old-fashioned disaster-movie yarn
The Fernando Meirelles–directed film is, of necessity, less literary and philosophical.  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 01, 2008

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To Hell and Harry

Hell Girl, The IT Crowd
American hetero pornography is, most often, a fantasy celebration of exhibitionist sluttiness, itchy whores on their knees, opening their legs, without a moment’s hesitation or a flicker of shame.
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 24, 2008

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Making us stronger

Boston’s What Doesn’t Kill You scores at Toronto
I’m back from the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, where the unexpected hit among discerning critics was a Boston-made crime melodrama.
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 17, 2008

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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women

A darker-than-usual take on the author
As always with Porter, you can expect intelligence in the writing and insights into the bio subject.
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 09, 2008

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Enlighten Up!

A human and profound yoga documentary
How to make a yoga documentary that will satisfy devotees but also entice those who balk at getting down with “downward dog”?
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 09, 2008

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I Served the King of England

Ambitious but old-fashioned and sluggish
I Served the King of England , though an arresting story, is the least successful of Czech filmmaker Jiří Menzel's film adaptations.
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 03, 2008

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The Grocer's Son

Nothing much happens here
Le fils de l’épicier is a dull title, but appropriate for Eric Guirado’s competently made, unexciting movie.
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 03, 2008

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Trumbo

An epistolary embarrassment
Peter Askin’s movie about the left-wing Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is fine when it’s in standard-bio-documentary mode.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 13, 2008

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Elegy of Life. Rostropovich. Visnevskaya

A great and lasting love story
Sokurov makes his position clear: these are true Russian patriots.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 13, 2008

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As Tears Go By

Violence and moony romance
Deliriously good-looking Hong Kong actors posture as iconic Hollywood movie stars, with the most gorgeously lustrous lighting and imaginatively off-kilter editing on the planet.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 13, 2008

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Man on Wire

Enthralling, exciting, and deeply beautiful
His little venture was not only death-defying but highly illegal.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 05, 2008

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Avant que j'oublie|Before I Forget

Smart and unusual gay movie goes on too long
Director Jacques Nolot stars in this semi-autobiographical tale of Pierre, a one-time gigolo who, now past 60.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 05, 2008
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