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    REVIEW | Weird Science: Shi-Zheng Chen's "Dark Matter"

    by Leo Goldsmith on April 9, 2008

    "Dark Matter" begins with a shot of Meryl Streep practicing tai chi, and therein lies a precise encapsulation of the film's attitude toward the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures. In its 90-minute duration, the film grapples with a number of weighty themes: the origins of the universe, the...

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    REVIEW | Compassion Play: Tom McCarthy's "The Visitor"

    by Chris Wisniewski on April 8, 2008

    Tom McCarthy's surprise indie hit "The Station Agent" was something of a minor miracle. A touching, big-hearted character study propelled by three vibrant performances, "The Station Agent" distinguished itself with its sensitivity and grace, qualities sorely lacking in an independent film culture th...

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    REVIEW | Old Joy: Stephen Walker's "Young @ Heart"

    by Nick Pinkerton on April 6, 2008

    Can rock music and colostomy bags mix? (Insert your own hilarious "Shine a Light" joke here.) The subject of Stephen Walker's new documentary is Farmingham, Massachusetts' "Young @ Heart" chorus, a 24-member group with several international tours under its belt. The singers' median age, we're inform...

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    REVIEW | Such Great Heights: Hou Hsiao-hsien's "The Flight of the Red Balloon"

    by Chris Wisniewski on March 29, 2008

    Like his 2004 film "Cafe Lumiere," Hou Hsiao-hsien's sublime new movie "The Flight of the Red Balloon" finds the director in a foreign country paying homage to another filmmaker. With "Lumiere," Yasujiro Ozu was Hou's reference point and Tokyo his canvas; here, Hou reimagines Albert Lamorisse's clas...

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    REVIEW | Tuckered Out: David Schwimmer's "Run Fatboy Run"

    by Kristi Mitsuda on March 27, 2008

    Since the "chick flick" moniker continues to stick, it's only fair that male-targeted incarnations of the romantic comedy receive an equally derogatory nickname now that they're all the rage. I nominate "dick flicks" over David Denby's more diplomatic "slacker striver romance" designation -- certai...

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    REVIEW | Wistful Thinking: Morgan Neville's "The Cool School"

    by Michael Rowin on March 24, 2008

    "The Cool School" is one of a subset of documentary biographies that might best be called "Scenes of Yesteryear." Like the recent "Weather Underground," "Commune," and "American Hardcore"--whose respective subjects include radical terrorists, hippie collectives, and indigenous, anticommercial punk r...

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    REVIEW | Family Feud: Jeff Nichols's 'Shotgun Stories"

    by Leo Goldsmith on March 21, 2008

    The presence of David Gordon Green's name in "Shotgun Stories"' billing block is probably both a blessing and a curse for the reception of Jeff Nichols's feature film debut. On the one hand, it broadcasts what sort of film this is -- an earnest character study with a touch of that neo-Southern Gothi...

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    REVIEW | Gross National Product: Olivier Assayas's "Boarding Gate"

    by Michael Koresky on March 20, 2008

    Olivier Assayas's "Boarding Gate" arrives on these shores like a battered shipment of cheap goods. True, it's only sat moldering for ten months in its film canister since its Cannes premiere -- a relatively short period in these hazy days of distribution -- but it shows a distinct lack of freshness ...

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    REVIEW | Over the Borderline: Patricia Riggen's "Under the Same Moon"

    by Michael Rowin on March 18, 2008

    The main question "Under the Same Moon" poses is whether its story, which follows the basic outline of a separated mother and son fairy tale, befits its subject, the plight of illegal Mexican immigrants. The immigration issue has in the last few years become a hot one in part due to economic angst a...

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    REVIEW | Sweet Nothings: Christophe Honore's "Love Songs"

    by Michael Koresky on March 16, 2008

    As in last year's "Dans Paris," 37-year-old filmmaker Christophe Honore ventures back to that lost Eden known as the French New Wave, this time to punch up a featherweight tale of young love and loss with high-concept tomfoolery. And though "Love Songs" (or, if we could please use its original, more...

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