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In remakes of foreign films American directors sometimes copy the source almost to the letter. Other times they update their own version to reflect current issues. In After the Wedding Bart Freundlich and his team make the worthy effort of tweaking the original to bring women to the forefront. But much of the original’s savor is lost in translation.
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The Fall of the American Empire blends comedy and crime caper in a biting satire of materialism run amok. This latest from Montreal-based Denys Arcand (The Barbarian Invasions), The Decline of the American Empire) marks his return to form as an astute social critic.
Read moreA riveting recreation of the famous accident that quashed Ted Kennedy’s presidential bid and the cover-up by his political fixers,
Read moreAlberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) paints a portrait of his friend James Lord (Armie Hammer) in a sterile exercise about the
Read moreFrançois Ozon’s Double Lover, a departure from his restrained World War I-set Frantz, is an erotic psychological thriller about a
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In The Beaches of Agnes, New Wave vet Agnes Varda has contrived a wondrous vehicle for recapturing watershed moments, a kind of cine memoir that filters her past through the many beaches, from Noirmoutier in France to the Pacific in California, that in some way shaped her.
Read moreFar from the Madding Crowd, a new film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s beloved classic, works its magic on multiple fronts.
Read moreIn his delicious new outing, Noah Baumbach expands on the issues that bedeviled Ben Stiller as the eponymous protagonist of
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