The line between harmony and heartbreak becomes profoundly blurred in the achingly beautiful Rachel Getting Married, a film that is certainly not always enjoyable, but does always ring powerfully true. Wrenching and uncompromising, it is wise enough to know that no family is wholly dysfunctional. Grace, like hope springs eternal, even it if waits in [...]

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There is no arguing with faith. Not that that stopped the political humorist and one of America’s sharpest social critics, Bill Maher in his hilarious and thought-provoking new documentary, Religulous. They say that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Maher comes on like honey, but the provocateur is an unrepentant vinegar man.

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Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a film about love, friendship, music and one very well traveled piece of gum. Brazen yet bashful, Infinite Playlist is a delight of a film, leavened with a phosphorescent soundtrack and enough quirky performances to last the rest of the year.

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The quintessential American genre, the Western, has been mercifully roused to life of late. The latest entry, Appaloosa, is firmly grounded in genre orthodoxy even as it teases at the edges of nonconformity. The results are decidedly mixed.

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Try imagining the pitch for Flash of Genius: “It’s a true story about the guy who invents the intermittent windshield wiper blade and his subsequent fight for recognition. I’m telling ya, this thing is gonna write itself.” On its face, it’s not exactly the sort of story that sets studio heads’ hearts aflutter. So it’s [...]

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Blindness comes with an established pedigree. Adapted from Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s lauded book, the film is directed by Academy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God) from a screenplay by Tony Award-winner Don McKellar (Broadway’s The Drowsy Chaperone) and stars Academy Award-nominee Julianne Moore. It would be easy to assume, given that sort of [...]

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