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Ozon's Cat-and-Mouse 'In the House'
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Surprises in 'Gatsby' (Review)
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Two Other Gatsbys, Two Better Nicks
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Mira Nair's 'Reluctant Fundamentalist'
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Watch Obama & Conan's Comedy at WHCD
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Affleck in Malick's 'To the Wonder'
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Ricky Gervais' Hilarious, Awful Music Video ...
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Danny Boyle's 'Trance'
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Ryan Gosling in "Place Beyond the Pines"
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Brandon Cronenberg's 'Antiviral'
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Black Comedy 'It's a Disaster'
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Brilliant Melissa McCarthy on SNL (Video ...
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'Room 237,' Kubrick & Malkovich
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Colbert Asks Franco: Are You A Fraud?
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Justin Timberlake's Latest SNL (Video)
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Watch Ricky Gervais in 'The Office Revisited' ...
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'Downton Abbey' Kills Off You-Know-Who
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'Downton' Does 'Breaking Bad' (Video)
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James Franco's Risk-Free 'Oz'
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'Downton Sixbey': Lady Hedith's Answer
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Smart Middle East Doc 'The Gatekeepers'
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'Downton Abbey' Season 3 Review
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Bad Title,Good 'Silver Linings Playbook'
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Foxx,Washington On 'Django' & Race (Vide ...
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Keira Knightley's Chilly 'Anna K.'
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'Skyfall': An Older, Better-Written Bond
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A Boy and His Tiger: 'Life of Pi'
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Brad Pitt, SNL on Chanel:Which Is Real?
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SNL's Lost Bond Girls
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Hugh Laurie,Catherine Keener on 'Oranges ...
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'The Master': Egotists and Cultists
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Jimmy Fallon Sings 'Romney & Bain'
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Fincher, Others in 'Side By Side' Extras
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Watch "Andrew Sarris: Critic in Focus"
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Amy Poehler on Sex, Music (Video)
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Fallon Does "Downton Sixbey, Part 2"
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Ewan McGregor On "Beginners"
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Daniel Radcliffe As Casey Anthony's Dog
Monthly Archives
Caryn James
Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier Play Cat and Mouse in "Love Crime"
- By Caryn James
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- September 1, 2011 2:15 AM
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Love Crime feels like the kind of film Claude Chabrol could (and sometimes did) make in his sleep: a sly divertissement about power and manipulation that inevitably leads to crime.
The Help: Better Than The Novel, But Does That Make It Good?
- By Caryn James
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- August 10, 2011 3:38 AM
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There are some high-end commercial novels with inflated literary reputations that actually become better on screen. Karen Joy Fowler’s strained chick-lit novel The Jane Austen Book Club was improved in Robin Swicord’s lived-in film. Now The Help has become an even more effective, big warm bath of a crowd-pleaser than Kathryn Stockett’s megaselling novel, a book that flirts uncomfortably with condescension and caricature. The Help has no artistic ambition, but with one huge exception, the movie avoids the novel's lethal pitfalls.
Can Rachel Weisz Save "The Whistleblower"?
- By Caryn James
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- August 3, 2011 2:00 AM
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As we know from her role as the anti-big-pharma activist in The Constant Gardener, Rachel Weisz can perform a rare feat: playing socially-conscious heroines who are fierce and passionate without being self-righteous. In The Whistleblower she is so perfectly cast as a woman who stumbles across high-level sex-trafficking that she almost single-handedly carries this disjointed movie and its weighty theme.
Magical Fiction Meets Real-Life Science in “State of Wonder” and “Jewels of the Jungle”
- By Caryn James
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- August 3, 2011 1:00 AM
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Ann Patchett’s glorious and highly praised new novel, State of Wonder, takes us on a dramatic journey into the Amazon along with her heroine, a laboratory researcher named Marina Singh. Marina is searching for a brilliant scientist, Dr. Annika Swenson, who has vanished into the depths of the jungle, and who turns out to have made a miraculous discovery: a tribe of indigenous women who achieve life-long fertility by chewing on the bark of a tree.
Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Emma Stone Have Some "Crazy Stupid Love"
- By Caryn James
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- July 26, 2011 3:32 AM
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Some titles, like “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” or “Crazy Stupid Love,” make you say: Well, yeah, tell me something I didn’t know. So here is something unexpected: despite its generic premise, Crazy Stupid Love is warm and hilarious, a kaleidoscope of romantic misadventures with – of all people – Ryan Gosling as it freshest, funniest character. And it is really hard to be funnier than Steve Carell here.
Review, "Captain America": A Hero Bland as Milk
- By Caryn James
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- July 21, 2011 12:30 PM
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The least you can expect from a superhero is that he’ll be colorful and more dynamic than real life – it’s pretty much the job requirement – but if there is a more homogenized, blander hero than the new Captain America, I haven’t encountered him.
Review: “Harry Potter” and J.K. Rowling’s Cinematic Genius
- By Caryn James
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- July 13, 2011 1:00 AM
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“Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic,” Dumbledore tells Harry in the magnificent final installment of the Harry Potter series, but that sentiment doesn’t denigrate screen magic at all. J.K. Rowling’s writing has a visual, cinematic style to match her compelling narrative gifts, and the Potter books and movies have such a graceful, rich symbiosis that while watching the films it’s sometimes hard to say whether I’m recognizing a scene from the novels or remembering it from a movie.
Horrible Bosses: Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis in the Real Hangover Sequel
- By Caryn James
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- July 7, 2011 12:30 PM
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Horrible Bosses is the funniest comedy since The Hangover – the real Hangover, not this year’s lame sequel. In fact, it is everything you might have wanted a Hangover sequel to be. The outlandish premise is carried by an ideal cast, with Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as friends plotting to murder one another’s irredeemably awful bosses – not what career-advice books usually counsel, but these poor guys’ powers of invention are a little bit skewed.
Catherine Breillat's Enrapturing "Sleeping Beauty" Opens
- By Caryn James
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- July 7, 2011 5:45 AM
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With echoes of Alice in Wonderland, Catherine Breillat’s lyrical and thoughtful The Sleeping Beauty is a fantasy-driven journey through a girl’s awakening to sex and love; you don’t have to be a princess to relate. Now this beautiful, enrapturing film is finally arriving in theaters after having been shown at festivals around the world. (It opens in New York on July 8th, other cities in the next weeks.)
Rapt: French Thriller About Womanizing Mogul Echoes Strauss-Kahn
- By Caryn James
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- July 5, 2011 1:00 AM
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With unplanned but impeccable timing, this fascinating French thriller about a womanizing business mogul comes just in time to catch the latest Dominique Strauss-Kahn developments. The story is based on the 1978 case of Baron Edouard-Jean Empain (really unknown here), which fortunately has been updated to the present and fictionalized with Yvan Attal as Stanislaus Graff, the arrogant chairman of a huge corporation who, just before he’s about to leave on a trip to China with the French president, is kidnapped and held for ransom.
