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Film: The ‘Mamma Mia!’ Factor, Times Three

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 11:20pm EDT by By SYLVIANE GOLD

“Mamma Mia!” comes to loud and flashy life on the big screen.
Movie Review | 'Gonzo': Beyond Fear and Loathing

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 11:11pm EDT by By A. O. SCOTT

“Gonzo” is a fascinating history lesson and a bit of a cautionary tale about how fame can turn into the scourge of talent.
Movie Review | 'Kabluey': Land of the Meek, and Home of the Deeply Blue

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 11:09pm EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“Kabluey” is a bittersweet indie comedy whose hapless protagonist spends a good part of the movie waddling along the side of a highway in a blue foam-rubber suit.
Film: Elves and Killer Beanstalks From Director’s Personal ‘Hell’

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:52pm EDT by By DAVE ITZKOFF

The beasts of “Hellboy II” began as drawings in Guillermo del Toro’s visual diary. The director offers a peek into that world.
Movie Review | 'Diminished Capacity': A Tale of Two Minds, Spinning Out of Control

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:42pm EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Diminished Capacity” touches earnestly on heart-heavy issues of loss: loss of memory, of love and, perhaps because of the local angle, of (or rather by) the Chicago Cubs.
Movie Review | 'Holding Trevor': Desperately Seeking Sex and Identity, With Snark

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:41pm EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“Holding Trevor,” a portrait of 20-something gay men and their straight friends, is a joyless exploration of middle-class deadbeats.
Movie Review | 'Very Young Girls': Children Without Childhoods

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:40pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Notwithstanding the coyly suggestive title, “Very Young Girls” is very far from exploitative.
Movie Review | 'We Are Together': The Gifts That Song Can Bring

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 10:39pm EDT by By NATHAN LEE

“We Are Together” is another feel-good documentary about a feel-bad topic: the bright-eyed, golden-voiced children of Agape, an orphanage in South Africa.
Displaced and Adrift in Los Angeles

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 9:19pm EDT by By DENNIS LIM

“The Exiles,” a film about American Indians living on the edge of downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, is both a chronicle and a casualty of neglect.