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Items by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
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Movie Review | 'Eden': The Common Wounds of a Neglected Marriage
Posted: November 14th, 2008, 1:38pm EST by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Eden” is a picture so modest and minor-key that the emotional bruise it leaves may take days to develop.
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Movie Review | 'House of the Sleeping Beauties': Lonely Old Men and Drugged Young Virgins
Posted: November 13th, 2008, 8:25pm EST by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to “House of the Sleeping Beauties.”
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Movie Review | 'The World Unseen': Racial Oppression and Lesbian Longing
Posted: November 6th, 2008, 8:00pm EST by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“The World Unseen” is a trembling soap of racial oppression and lesbian longing.
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Movie Review | 'The Haunting of Molly Hartley': Beware of the Darkness, and Those Ugly Clothes
Posted: November 1st, 2008, 12:43am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
God and Satan duke it out for the soul of a young girl in “The Haunting of Molly Hartley,” an unexpectedly cynical addition to the teen-scream genre.
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Movie Review | 'The Matador': All the Life Surrounding Death in the Afternoon
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 11:34am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Stripping away centuries of civilization, “The Matador” confronts something primal in human nature, daring us to do the same.
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Movie Review | 'Ben X': Peer Cruelty and Parental Frustration
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 2:53am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
There’s not a moment of warmth or ease in “Ben X,” Nic Balthazar’s punishingly cacophonous debut.
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Movie Review | 'Saving Marriage': A Legal Tussle for Civil Rights
Posted: October 24th, 2008, 2:45am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Saving Marriage” is an in-the-trenches, defiantly partisan and exuberantly big-hearted movie.
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Movie Review | 'Fear(s) of the Dark': From Fertile Sketchpads, Anxious Tales and Terrors
Posted: October 22nd, 2008, 12:17am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Fear(s) of the Dark” is an animated anthology that tells its stories with an inventiveness that’s seldom scary but never less than mesmerizing.
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Movie Review | 'Tokyo Gore Police': Splatter Matters
Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 3:44am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Propelled by geysers of blood and tidal waves of neuroses, “Tokyo Gore Police” plumbs wounds both cultural and physical to deliver splatterific social satire.
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Movie Review | 'Shoot on Sight': Conflict in Britain
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 11:56am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Marrying small-screen formula to big-screen actors, “Shoot on Sight” is an earnest melodrama that struggles to surmount its good intentions.
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Movie Review | 'Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story': Layers of Political Strategy
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 4:10am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Like a trompe l’oeil painting, “Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story” deftly positions its subject as both the savior of the Republican Party and the Antichrist of American politics.
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Movie Review | 'Forever Strong': Sports Therapy
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 4:10am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS NATHAN LEE NEIL GENZLINGER LAURA KERN
“Forever Strong” was devised by committee, plotted by machine and acted on cruise control.
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Movie Review | 'Obscene': Classically Dirty
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 4:09am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Without Barney Rosset, you might never have been able to hide that copy of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” from your parents.
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Movie Review | 'The House of Adam': A Severed Affair
Posted: September 4th, 2008, 7:48pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Had Jorge Ameer, the writer and director of “The House of Adam,” aimed for high-flying camp instead of low-rent earnestness, his movie might have stood a chance.
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Movie Review | 'Everybody Wants to Be Italian': A Fishmonger and a Veterinarian Walk Into a Relationship...
Posted: September 4th, 2008, 7:31pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
How atrocious is the comedy “Everybody Wants to Be Italian”? Let me count the ways.
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Movie Review | 'Youssou N’Dour: Return to Gorée' and 'Bethânia: Music Is Perfume': A Different Drum
Posted: August 29th, 2008, 6:00pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
The music documentaries “Youssou N’Dour: Return to Gorée” and “Maria Bethânia: Music Is Perfume” are mellow as buttermilk and twice as nutritious.
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Movie Review | 'My Mexican Shivah': Jewish Ritual and Mariachi Bands
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 7:43pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
What raises this uninhibited hybrid above C level is a director, Alejandro Springall, with a flair for the surreal and a cast that knows its way around a stereotype.
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Movie Review | 'Year of the Fish': A Chinatown Fairy Tale
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 7:17pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Year of the Fish” updates an ancient Chinese version of the “Cinderella” story with imagination, charm and just the right amount of sweetness.
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Movie Review | I.O.U.S.A.: Tackling Our Unsexy National Debt
Posted: August 21st, 2008, 8:19pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Patrick Creadon’s resolutely nonpartisan film tracks America’s “fiscal cancer” through centuries of budgetary highs and lows.
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Movie Review | Dare Not Walk Alone: A Muddled Walk Through a Segregationist History
Posted: August 21st, 2008, 8:10pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
In the civil rights documentary “Dare Not Walk Alone,” director Jeremy Dean makes a valiant attempt to juxtapose past and present, but his execution is so muddled it’s almost unwatchable.
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Movie Review | 'Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet': Watching as Richard Serra Thinks Big and Does Big
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 11:17pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Operating at the intersection of art and industrial engineering, Richard Serra is an informative if unanimated guide through “Thinking on Your Feet.”
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Movie Review | 'Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer': A Blue-Collar Adventurer
Posted: August 15th, 2008, 10:49am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer” harks back to the drive-in classics of yesteryear with unapologetic nostalgia and undisguised affection.
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Movie Review | 'Never Apologize: A Personal Visit With Lindsay Anderson': An Actor’s Playful Tribute to a Dissident Director
Posted: August 14th, 2008, 10:58pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Malcolm McDowell is thoroughly engaging in “Never Apologize: A Personal Visit With Lindsay Anderson.”
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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.
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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.
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Movie Review | 'August': A Web of Cynicism
Posted: July 11th, 2008, 12:02pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Embracing superficiality in both subject and style, “August” is a low-key drama in high-tech clothing.
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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.
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Movie Review | 'Red Roses and Petrol': One Gloomy Family
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 7:19pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
In “Red Roses and Petrol,” a soused, post-funeral postmortem on a dysfunctional Dublin family, the misery seeps from the screen in cold, damp waves.
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Movie Review | 'Elsa & Fred': Marching Noisily Toward Late Middle Age
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 7:14pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Elsa & Fred” is both a movie about love and a love letter to movies.
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Movie Review | 'Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot': For Love of the Game
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 6:58pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot” is an on-the-fly record of a memorable moment in basketball history.
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Movie Review | 'Kit Kittredge: An American Girl': Wholesome Life Lessons for Budding Reporter
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 11:51pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” appears poised to incite the kind of box-office frenzy more commonly associated with characters named Hannah and Harry.
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Movie Review | 'The Machine Girl': Retrofitted for Revenge
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 12:06pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
The Japanese obsession with cavorting ninjas and cunning hardware reaches some kind of climax with “The Machine Girl.”
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Movie Review | 'Mukhsin': A Tomboy in Malaysia Is Introduced to Hormones
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 12:01pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Deceptively simple and threaded with gentle humor, “Mukhsin” paints the turmoil of puppy love on a canvas of family relationships as delightful as it is believable.
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Movie Review | 'The Children of Huang Shi': Invasion of the Heart
Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 12:07am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“The Children of Huang Shi” is a Hollywood weepie snuggled inside a humanitarian tribute.
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Movie Review | 'The Favor': A Photographer of Pets and Perps
Posted: May 1st, 2008, 10:13pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“The Favor,” a dreary, interminable drama written and directed by Eva Aridjis, is exactly one-third of a good movie. -
Movie Review | 'Fugitive Pieces': Dark Memories Abound
Posted: May 1st, 2008, 9:53pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
For a tale spiked with so much torment, “Fugitive Pieces” feels remarkably soothing. -
Movie Review | 'Without the King': An Extravagant Ruler of a Modest Kingdom
Posted: April 25th, 2008, 11:39am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Leaning more toward understanding than blame, “Without the King” examines a country forced to choose between tradition and survival. -
Movie Review | 'Without the King': An Extravagant Ruler of a Modest Kingdom
Posted: April 25th, 2008, 11:39am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Leaning more toward understanding than blame, “Without the King” examines a country forced to choose between tradition and survival. -
Movie Review | 'Four Minutes': The Allure of Psychological Damage
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 12:13pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
A women-behind-bars plot seething with lesbianism, incest, hanging and catfights — on paper, at least, “Four Minutes” promises more fun than a Roger Corman marathon. -
Movie Review | 'Four Minutes': The Allure of Psychological Damage
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 1:03am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
A women-behind-bars plot seething with lesbianism, incest, hanging and catfights — on paper, at least, “Four Minutes” promises more fun than a Roger Corman marathon. -
Movie Review | 'Four Minutes': The Allure of Psychological Damage
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 1:03am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
A women-behind-bars plot seething with lesbianism, incest, hanging and catfights — on paper, at least, “Four Minutes” promises more fun than a Roger Corman marathon. -
Movie Review | 'Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts': A Deeply Spiritual Life
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 12:49am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
A hair’s breadth from hagiography, Scott Hicks’s “Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts” is much like its subject: affable, quotable and emotionally guarded in the extreme. -
Movie Review | 'Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts': A Deeply Spiritual Life
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 12:49am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
A hair’s breadth from hagiography, Scott Hicks’s “Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts” is much like its subject: affable, quotable and emotionally guarded in the extreme. -
Movie Review | 'Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts': A Deeply Spiritual Life
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 12:49am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
A hair’s breadth from hagiography, Scott Hicks’s “Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts” is much like its subject: affable, quotable and emotionally guarded in the extreme. -
Movie Review | 'Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed': Resentment Over Darwin Evolves Into a Documentary
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 12:11am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
One of the sleaziest documentaries to arrive in a very long time, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry. -
Movie Review | 'Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed': Resentment Over Darwin Evolves Into a Documentary
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 12:11am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
One of the sleaziest documentaries to arrive in a very long time, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry. -
Movie Review | 'Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed': Resentment Over Darwin Evolves Into a Documentary
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 12:11am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
One of the sleaziest documentaries to arrive in a very long time, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” is a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry. -
Movie Review | 'Prom Night': Music, Corsages and a Killer
Posted: April 12th, 2008, 1:48am EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
For a film about erotomania, “Prom Night” is a curiously flaccid affair. -
Movie Review | 'Bra Boys': Making a Splash
Posted: April 10th, 2008, 9:37pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
In the disheveled Australian documentary “Bra Boys,” the obsession is not lingerie but surfing. -
Movie Review | 'The Dhamma Brothers': Freedom in Prison
Posted: April 10th, 2008, 9:23pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“The Dhamma Brothers” is a thinking-head documentary about finding answers within for those who can’t get out. -
Movie Review | 'Tehilim': With Man’s Disappearance, a Family Assesses Its Faith
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 11:18pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Modest to a fault, the introverted family drama “Tehilim” circles an unsolved mystery and unresolved emotions.