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Movie Review | 'Hell Ride': It’s Not About the Bike? Try Telling These Lifers

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 10:18pm EDT by By RACHEL SALTZ

“Hell Ride,” a silly slice of genre gone bad, takes place in an American desert populated by middle-aged bikers and the nubile, often topless young women who love them.
Movie Review: A Simple Country Soul Pushed Past His Limits

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 10:18pm EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“Red” imagines a world in which good and evil are clear-cut, and absolute justice is worth pursuing despite heavy collateral damage.
Movie Review | 'Elegy': Extracurricular Lessons for Student and Teacher

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 10:06pm EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Elegy” is such a serious, oftentimes grave exploration of desire and the ways of aging that it’s a miracle the two central characters have as much sex as they do.
Movie Review | 'What We Do Is Secret': In Search of Posthumous Adulation

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 7:24pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

“What We Do Is Secret” reveals its hero, Darby Crash, as a disaffected egotist and a magnet for needy weirdoes.
Movie Review | 'Spirit of the Marathon': On the Run

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 7:16pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS NATHAN LEE

A symphony of snapping sinews and pumping thighs, “Spirit of the Marathon” makes you feel like a slug.
Movie Review | 'Passing Poston': Bearing Witness to a Historical Disgrace

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 7:07pm EDT by By NATHAN LEE

“Passing Poston” recollects one of the most shameful episodes in United States history: the forced internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.
Movie Review | 'The Forgotten Woman': Stigmatized by Society

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 6:59pm EDT by By NATHAN LEE

“The Forgotten Woman,” about the marginalization of widows in India, has visual beauty, graceful compassion and understated anger.
Movie Review | 'Last Stop for Paul': An Arrival for the Dearly Departed

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 6:47pm EDT by By NATHAN LEE

“Last Stop for Paul” follows two goofy dudes, Charlie (Neil Mandt) and Cliff (Marc Carter), as they gallivant around the globe in search of adventure.
Arts, Briefly: Movie Wins R Rating

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:52am EDT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

Kevin Smith, the director of the movies “Clerks” and “Chasing Amy,” has won an appeal to lower the rating for his new comedy from NC-17 to R.
On Location: A London Home to Shock the Neighbors

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:28am EDT by By KATHRYN HARRIS

The director Roland Emmerich’s 1830 town house in London is designed to shock, amuse and provoke discussion.