Green is the new pink. At any rate, it’s the color evoked by “The Pink Panther 2.” Anyone who watches this dismal attempt at comedy is sure to feel sick afterward, if not during. Read more

Roberta Grossman’s heartbreaking documentary profiles Hannah Senesh, who’s often referred to as a modern Joan of Arc, but whose story is also brings to mind that of another well known Holocaust victim, Anne Frank. Read more>>

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Revenge! Moodiness! Weight gain! And it’s not even that time of the month! Read more

French filmmaker Laurent Cantet deftly bridges the narrative and documentary genres in “The Class,” recently nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Read more>>

Sandra Kogut is a citizen of the world, and she is a camera. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1965, Kogut grew up in Brazil, spent more than a decade in France and now lives in the United States. A video artist and documentarian, Kogut made her fiction feature debut with “Mutum” (2007), a film she hoped would “blur the line” between documentary and fiction. Based on the coming of age novel “Campo Geral” (1964) by Joao Guimaraes Rosa that Kogut adapted with Ana Luiza Martins Costa, “Mutum” is set in the sertao, an isolated part of Brazil’s interior. Read more

Pizza and beer aren’t the only traditions rolled out annually on Super Bowl weekend. One that’s even staler is the inevitable release of a so-called chick flick. Studios figure there’ll be femmes seeking respite from gridiron mania who’ll head to movie theaters in search of something less brutal and tedious. The trouble is, what women find at the local multiplex usually turns out to be, ahem, brutally tedious. Read more

There’s nothing much “new” in this predictably formulaic romantic comedy that seems to be populated by rejects from “Fargo” auditions, muttering “gotcha,” “ooh-yah” and “okey-doke.” Read more

This exploitive jaunt to the City of Lights is brutal, intense - and soon forgotten. Read more

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