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Imagine a murder case in which the defendant is so beloved in the community that the prosecutor asks for (and gets) a change of venue.
That?s the case in affluent Carthage, Texas, where Bernie Tiede, an assistant funeral-parlor director, stands accused of murdering the town?s wealthiest, nastiest widow...
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It?s pointless to even try to summarize ?Don?t Dress for Dinner,? a sex farce more tangled than a plate of spaghetti. Actually, there isn?t so much a story as a pileup of contrived lies, mistaken identities, random coincidences and physical entanglements.
Yet despite all this frantic activity...
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Emily Blunt brings a much-needed dose of reality ? and palpable chemistry with Jason Segel ? to the Judd Apatow school of raunchy screen comedy with the sweet and smart ?The Five-Year Engagement.??
It might not have as many gut-busting laughs as ?Bridesmaids,?? but there are still plenty ? and for once in...
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An unofficial companion piece to last year?s micro-budgeted ?Another Earth?? (both premiered at Sundance 2011), Zal Batmanglij?s tight little film also stars co-writer and co-producer Brit Marling.
This time the enigmatic blonde plays a Los Angeles cult leader who claims she?s an ailing visitor ? complete with oxygen...
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?Today? and ?Good Morning America? continue their seesaw battle for morning-show glory.
While ?Today? reclaimed its top slot last week, one week after losing it to ?GMA? for the first time in 16 years, ?GMA? is having a very strong week ? and is on track to beat ?Today? in total...
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The Bp oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and a blood feud in Albania don?t seem to have much in common, but both play key roles in the documentary ?Payback.?? Based on Margaret Atwood?s book of the same name, writer-director Jennifer Baichwal?s film explores the complex...
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Charlotte is a young French woman with freckles and an innocence that make her look like the girl next door. Alicja is from Poland, about the same age, but harder-looking. Both are college students in Paris ? and both are paying tuition by selling their bodies. In the disappointing ?Elles,? by...
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The hookers aren?t happy in ?Whores? Glory.?? Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger takes his cameras to three red-light districts around the world, and finds life is miserable for the women who work in the world?s oldest profession ? and for the men who pay cash for sex.
In Bangkok, the...
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This remarkable new documentary from Raymond De Felitta (?City Island?) fruitfully revisits the aftermath of a TV doc that his father, Frank, produced for NBC in 1965.
Shooting on location in Greenwood, Miss., the elder De Felitta interviewed Booker Wright about his experiences encountering racism while working as a waiter...
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Poet Hart Crane was an alcoholic, depressive and gay ? in an era when that could wreck a life. He committed suicide at age 32. That?s a story that could have prompted a biopic before now, save one factor: Crane?s poems are some of the most forbiddingly abstruse in...
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?Safe,? the new actioner starring the foot-flying force known as Jason Statham, can?t be called a distinguished film, unless you consider ?12-year-old Chinese math genius? an inspired plot point. On the other hand, taken on its own genre-adhering terms, it?s quite enjoyable. There are zero surprises, but it...
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