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The Messenger

Woody Harrelson on war, death, LBJ and Obama

The onetime "Cheers" star turned eco-radical talks about his intense new film and mentoring the next James Dean
Andrew O'Hehir
Science Fiction and Fantasy

"Star Trek": Coming to a theme park near you!

Is the interactive kiddie spinoff "Star Trek Live" the final, gruesome nail in Gene Roddenberry's space-coffin?
Andrew O'Hehir
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

"Cirque du Freak": Not freaky enough

Salma Hayek makes one sexy bearded lady, but she can't put hair on the chest of this good-natured kiddie horror pic
Stephanie Zacharek

Lightning survivors tell (almost) all!

A spectacular new film explores the physics and metaphysics of nature's most terrifying elemental force
Andrew O'Hehir
This Is It

Just the beginning: "This Is It"

Stephanie Zacharek

"Antichrist": Lars von Trier's voyage into madness

Call it torture porn or call it art, the mad Dane's violent psychodrama is like no other movie this year (or ever)
Andrew O'Hehir
Horror

Have an alt-horror Halloween!

Forget the sequels, formulas and pointless gore -- at the low-rent, freaky fringes, horror movies are still alive
Andrew O'Hehir

DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't

Andrew O'Hehir
Miramax Films

The undignified near-death of Miramax

Why Disney turned Harvey Weinstein's legendary indie empire into a zombie slave -- and why it doesn't much matter
Andrew O'Hehir
Precious

"Precious" in the age of Obama

Why the hopeless story of a ghetto teen is just the kind of movie black people need right now
Erin Aubry Kaplan
A Christmas Carol

Disney's "A Christmas Carol": Bah, humbug!

Robert Zemeckis' 3-D, motion-capture masterwork is oddly flat. And isn't one Jim Carrey enough for any movie?
Mary Elizabeth Williams

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Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 17:04 PST

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Director Ti West's horror homage looks to the '80s, without irony
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Thursday, Oct 22, 2009 17:23 PDT

"Amelia": What becomes a legend most?

Hilary Swank has the face, and the swagger, to play Amelia Earhart. So why does this ambitious biopic stall out?
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Friday, Oct 16, 2009 00:07 PDT

Where the wild things aren't

Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers turn Maurice Sendak's woolly kids' book into a shoe-gazing exercise
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Friday, Oct 16, 2009 00:06 PDT

The terrifying success of "Paranormal Activity"

How to turn a low-budget horror indie into a hit? Add Steven Spielberg, Twitter -- and scare the pants off people
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Thursday, Oct 15, 2009 10:16 PDT

Kids' movies that aren't for kids: The top 10

Will "Where the Wild Things Are" be a smash or a flop? Either way, it joins an august list of kidult classics
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Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009 00:06 PDT

Film Salon: Your favorite Coen brothers movie

"Fargo" vs. "Miller's Crossing"? "No Country" vs. "Lebowski"? We put the film geek question to a panel of our faves
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Tuesday, Oct 13, 2009 00:07 PDT

Rape, power and Polanski's "Chinatown"

What are the real lessons in the filmmaker's neo-noir classic?
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Friday, Oct 9, 2009 00:06 PDT

"An Education": Romance with an older man

Carey Mulligan shines as a teenager exploring the minefield of love -- and sex -- in a film written by Nick Hornby
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Friday, Oct 9, 2009 00:06 PDT

"Couples Retreat" is marital hell

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Friday, Oct 9, 2009 00:06 PDT

"Good Hair" gives it to us straight

Burning relaxers, expensive extensions, African-American identity: Chris Rock covers it all, and keeps us laughing
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Thursday, Oct 8, 2009 00:08 PDT

The British indie explosion

Dazzling direction, Oscar-worthy performances and strong narratives -- the Brits are doing what the Yanks can't
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Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 00:07 PDT

"Afterschool": Death comes to YouTube

Young director Antonio Campos' chilly, brilliant video-age mystery is one of the decade's breakout movies
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Friday, Oct 2, 2009 00:06 PDT

Three cheers for the red, white and goo

The horror-comedy "Zombieland" bridges the American divide
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Friday, Oct 2, 2009 00:05 PDT

"Whip It" wobbles, but it doesn't fall down

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Friday, Oct 2, 2009 00:05 PDT

"The Invention of Lying" tells it straight

The not-so-awful truth is that Ricky Gervais is smart, funny and, yes, sexy
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Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 00:08 PDT

Goys, God, dentistry and "A Serious Man"

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Friday, Sep 25, 2009 00:09 PDT

"Surrogates": Accept no substitutes

Bruce Willis -- with hair! -- channels his inner John Tesh in this loopy sci-fi thriller
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Wednesday, Sep 23, 2009 03:23 PDT

Early odds on the Oscar derby

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Wednesday, Sep 23, 2009 03:23 PDT

Michael Moore and the evils of free enterprise

In "Capitalism: A Love Story," the filmmaker takes to the bullhorn to decry corporate greed -- and promote himself
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Friday, Sep 18, 2009 11:17 PDT

John Malkovich faces "Disgrace"

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The naked opportunism of "Jennifer's Body"

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"Bright Star" burns true

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