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  • john adams John Adams

    Jun 11, 2008

    HBO’s nine-hour supplement to David McCullough’s epic biography views the major events of the late 18th century from an unusual vantage.

  • days of heaven Days Of Heaven

    Nov 28, 2007

    Terrence Malick's pet theme of innocence lost gets a stunning workout in his 1976 masterpiece about laborers on a West Texas ranch.

  • Elizabeth Golden Age Elizabeth: The Golden Age

    Oct 12, 2007

    A historically rich period in Queen Elizabeth I's life becomes fodder for an unnecessary sequel.

  • Lust Caution Lust, Caution

    Sep 27, 2007

    Ang Lee's disappointing follow-up to Brokeback Mountain is loaded with sex, but lacking in sensuality.

  • Silk Silk

    Sep 20, 2007

    Michael Pitt brings his anachronistic drugged-out pretty boy routine to the role of a 19th century adventurer seeking silkworms in China.

  • September Dawn September Dawn

    Aug 27, 2007

    Mormon officials are up in arms about this depiction of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, with good reason.

  • Becoming Jane Becoming Jane

    Aug 02, 2007

    Jane Austen's life story never quite reached the bliss of her independent-minded protagonists. Until now.

  • This Is England This Is England

    Jul 26, 2007

    The latest from writer-director Shane Meadows perfectly evokes the Midlands during a particularly turbulent year in the Thatcher era.

  • Goyas Ghost Goya's Ghosts

    Jul 20, 2007

    After a seven-year hiatus, director Milos Forman returns with this drama about the Spanish painter's tangle with the Inquisition. Sort of.

  • Lady Chatterley Lady Chatterley

    Jun 21, 2007

    No, not Sylvia Kristel, but a hoped-for return to legitimacy for the D.H. Lawrence classic.