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For kids of all ages

Ty Burr, plus Jean-Claude Brisseau
In this spineless age of ours, what more rueful sight than a child maneuvering his/her cowed parents to some insulting CGI movie?
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 14, 2007

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Learning experience

The predictable curve of Starter for Ten and Islander
“You’re not going to turn into a wanker?” It’s 1985, and homie Spencer is worried that his pal Brian is going to put on airs when off at university.
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 07, 2007

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Fit to be Thai’d

Black Tiger delights; Fauteuils d’orchestre bores
This retro spoof is an affectionate homage to cheapo Thai Westerns of the 1950s, trashy Thai action films of the 1960s, weepie melodramas of all eras.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 27, 2007

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The battle for the Algerians

Indigènes  inspires; Becket  bores
Sweet victory of the ex-colony.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 23, 2007

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Power suit

Chabrol’s latest; Paul Robeson at the MFA
Claude Chabrol initiated the French New Wave with Le beau Serge and Les cousins, and for a decade after his work was as shiny as anyone’s.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 14, 2007

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Background chatter

Ricky Gervais’s hilarious Extras
Thanks, Ricky Gervais, for getting the dread “A” word into the open: ATHEIST!
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 06, 2007

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Wrestling with Tony

Freida Lee Mock does Kushner
In the case of Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner , which opens this Friday at the Kendall Square, director Freida Lee Mock’s typically hagiographic approach can be forgiven.
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 31, 2007

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El dopo?

But Alejandro Jodorowsky is still a lot of fun
Some who despise Salvador Dalí have found a distasteful double in cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky.
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 26, 2007

Smiles all around

Marker’s cats; Bujalski and the Times
Born in France in 1921, the spry octogenarian Chris Marker plays detective with a camera in Chats perchés|The Case of the Grinning Cat , which is playing all week at the Brattle Theatre.
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 17, 2007

Feel-bad cinema

Gerald Peary's year in movies
This critic's been carping for decades about feel-good cinema, how lousy it makes me feel, and this year I got the misery I begged for.
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 21, 2006

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Photo realism?

 The Links, and the Refugee All Stars
The staid BBC goes tawdry and tabloid with Paul Yule’s “noir” documentary, The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover , which is getting eight screenings at the MFA, December 15 through 30.
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 13, 2006

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Twice isn’t nice

After Camel , the Yellow Dog
At Munich film school, Byambasuren Davaa had a light-bulb idea for her graduate-thesis film, one that would lead to an Oscar nomination.
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 21, 2006

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Going Under

Worth stepping down into
Director Eric Werthman has been a New York therapist for 25 years, and the temptation is to read his absorbing, daring debut feature as autobiography. Watch the trailer for Going Under   (QuickTime)
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 15, 2006

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Guest appearance

Comedy is hard in For Your Consideration
Those who expect ingratiating clowning and motormouth shtick from Christopher Guest, funny-ha-ha filmmaker of Waiting for Guffman , Best of Show , and A Mighty Wind , guess again. In public, he’s deadpan and somber.
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 14, 2006

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Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?

A worthy contemporary follow-up
Even his mom thinks it’s a goofy idea, but 29-year-old Jeff Smith, a novice politician bursting with liberal idealism, decides to seek a congressional seat in inner St. Louis previously held by Dick Gephardt. Watch the trailer for Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 01, 2006

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The anti-Borat

Ali G  on DVD; Sergei Dvortsevoy at the HFA
Like many who’ve found Borat the movie uproariously funny, I ran to my video store for more: the first and second seasons of Da Ali G Show , the British telly program transferred to, and reshot for, HBO, with American sequences replacing English ones. Stringer in a strange land: Is Borat laughing at you? By Peter Keough
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 02, 2006

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Terror incognita

Phillip Noyce takes on apartheid
Even as Aussie Phillip Noyce built a lucrative career as a director of proficient 1990s Hollywood blockbusters, fans of the distinguished films he’d made back home felt sold out.
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 25, 2006

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Dead reckoning

François Ozon’s Le temps qui reste
Although it’s a transgressive masterwork, nobody seems eager to revive the pestilent 1992 film Les nuits fauves|Savage Nights .
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 18, 2006

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Shortbus

A sexual utopia?
Give Shortbus credit: writer/director John Cameron Mitchell might be the first filmmaker to figure out how to treat hardcore sex so casually that it fits organically into the narrative. Watch the trailer for Shortbus  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 11, 2006

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‘Ice’ is nice

Schmoozing at the Reykjavík Film Festival
In culture-crazy Reykjavík, the city of 200,000 that spawned Björk, Icelanders have practically everything to get them through the cool-to-cold weather: a symphony orchestra, dance and theater companies, rock bands and poetry readings, and an astonishing number of Euro-hip galleries and art museums.
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 11, 2006
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