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Dark matter

An astonishingly unpredictable ending
This first film by Chinese director Chen Shi-Zheng and American screenwriter Billy Shebar is an intelligent, well-acted TV-level movie.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 09, 2008

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Body of War

Poetic Americana
Tomas Young volunteered for the US Army right after 9/11, hoping to be sent to Afghanistan and chase down Osama bin Laden.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 09, 2008

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Mexico City abuzz with Beantowners

A report from the International Mexico City Festival of Contemporary Cinema
Where’s New York?  Where’s LA?
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 07, 2008

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Planet B-Boy

Retire the breakdance, already
Breakdancing seemed over and done in the ’80s, but hip-hop culture has pumped it alive, combining the original head-spinning street maves with rap, gymnastics, kung fu, MTV, and Broadway.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 02, 2008

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O Ano Em Que Meus Pais Saíram De Férias | The Year My Parents Went Away on Vacation

Unbalanced and unoriginal
It’s Brazil 1970, and 12-year-old Mauro is too obsessed with Pelé to notice that his left-wing parents are flipping out over the country’s military regime.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 02, 2008

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Monkey Warfare

Love and politics
On weekends, they become a two-person team of petty-bourgeois capitalists, sniffing out yard sales, looking for pop-culture items that they can spiff up and sell on the Web.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 02, 2008

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Shelter

Everyone calls you "dude"
Short-order cook Zack skateboards, surfs, babysits, and dreams of attending Caltech to be an artist.
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 25, 2008

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Still waters

Jia Zhangke runs deep
Have you concluded that Zhang Yimou is a softy and a sellout?
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 26, 2008

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Shoulda-been

The Band’s Visit  goes Oscar-less
Here’s another knock against the bonehead Foreign Language Oscar selections for 2007.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 20, 2008

WITNESSLIST

Les Témoins|The Witnesses

Seraphim in France
Les témoins is the absorbing story of a beautiful young man who, arriving in Paris, wreaks havoc with his sexuality, rejecting the love of a middle-aged medical doctor, and bringing out of the closet  a vice cop.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 15, 2008

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Taxi to the Dark Side

Torture in the shadows
In 2002, an Afghani jitney driver named Dilawar took off with two customers and disappeared.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 06, 2008

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Today the Hawk Takes One Chick

The hawk is AIDS
They show what is, without voiceover commentary, leaving it to the horrified audience to figure out what to do.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 06, 2008

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Guerrilla filmmaking

This Is Nollywood  opens the African Film Fest
Hollywood begat Bollywood, India’s extraordinary mass-market cinema.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 04, 2008

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Billy the Kid

A charmer
Audiences can’t help but root for him when he discovers majestic first love in the person of a half-blind, perhaps dimwitted, 16-year-old local gal.
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 23, 2008

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Lost and found

Bruce Weber’s portrait of Chet Baker
Let’s Get Lost  is getting a deserved second act, with a restored 35mm print screening at the Brattle Theatre January 25 through February 7.
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 22, 2008

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Transylvania

Authentic, but bumbling
Here, the seeker is a lovestruck pregnant young woman whose Gypsy lover, a pianist, was deported from France and now has disappeared.
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 16, 2008

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Steep

Reckless and soulful
“Mountains have the last say,” explains his stoic wife. “Sometimes they swallow you up.”
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 16, 2008

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Rí!

Kings  in Gaelic, plus Brattle Staff Picks
In Kings , which is getting six screenings at the MFA, it’s 1977, and six spry Irish lads are sailing toward London, buoyed by grand expectations.
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 31, 2007

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Union dos

The Hollywood writers strike east
Film Culture wanted to check out Boston’s first rally supporting the Writers Guild of America strike to see which New England–based screenwriters would answer the call.
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 26, 2007

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Charlie Wilson's War

Waged by amiable actors
The supporting players are splendid.
By GERALD PEARY  |  December 19, 2007
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