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    May 14, 2008

    Combine technophobia, torture porn, and a healthy dose of hypocritical moralizing, and you've got Untraceable (Sony), in which...

  • DVDs In Brief

    May 07, 2008

    How much you respond to Todd Haynes' experimental Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There (Weinstein) may directly relate to how highly...

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    Apr 30, 2008

    Julian Schnabel's biopic The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Miramax) didn't win any Oscars, but given the film's small budget and...

  • DVDs In Brief

    Apr 10, 2008

    No film in 2007 took greater risks than There Will Be Blood (Paramount), from Jonny Greenwood's unconventional, often deliberately...

  • DVDs In Brief

    Mar 26, 2008

    As Oscar-bait goes, Marc Forster's adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's bestseller The Kite Runner (DreamWorks) is well-made and...

  • DVDs In Brief

    Mar 19, 2008

    Good books rarely translate into good movies, but director Joe Wright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton manage to retain what made Ian...

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    Feb 13, 2008

    John Turturro's "working-class opera" Romance & Cigarettes (Sony) was in theaters for a few seconds at most, but its wonkiness...

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    Feb 06, 2008

    Andrew Dominik's sprawling, poetic The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Warner Bros.) approaches greatness,...