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  Sundance Film Festival 2012 Wrap-up

  By Karina Longworth

  It's potentially dangerous to look at the lineup of the Sundance Film Festival (which ended Sunday) as a reflection of the character of... More >>

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  Crazy Horse Review

  By Melissa Anderson

  Recording "Les Filles du Crazy," an anthem they'll later lip-synch onstage, half a dozen women — performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris'... More >>

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  The Innkeepers Review

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror... More >>

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  Lars Von Trier's Zentropa at LACMA

  By Gustavo Turner

  At the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, director Lars Von Trier made some deliberately incendiary statements at a press conference promoting his latest... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  By Veronika Ferdman

  Thurs., Feb. 2There’s a Brendan Gleeson double feature at the New Beverly with two crime comedies, In Bruges (the feature debut of... More >>

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  Liam Neeson: Evolution of a Badass

  By Eric Hynes

  Click here for Brian Miller's review of The Grey. Halfway through last year's rough-and-tumble thriller Unknown, assassins come calling for a... More >>

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  Declaration of War Review

  By Karina Longworth

  The gorgeously scruffy Juliette (director/co-writer Valérie Donzelli) and Roméo (co-writer Jérémie Elkaïm)... More >>

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  Man on a Ledge Review

  By Brian Miller

  The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown... More >>

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  Margaret Review

  By Karina Longworth

  A coming-of-age tale infused with post-9/11 anxiety, Margaret features Anna Paquin as Lisa, a 17-year-old whose role in a fatal Upper West Side... More >>

• The Grey Review

  By Brian Miller

  Click here for "Liam Neeson: Evolution of a Badass," by Eric Hynes. I was told there would be more wolf-punching in The Grey. If you crash Liam... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  By Veronika Ferdman

  Thurs., Jan. 26 Six films that are not to be missed are playing on three separate double bills across the city tonight. The Aero is having a... More >>

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  Channing Tatum and Gina Carano in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire

  By Karina Longworth

  "Steven [Soderbergh] asked me, 'Why is Angelina Jolie the only female action star in the world?' I told him, 'I don't know,' and he said,... More >>

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  Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme Reviewed

  By J. Hoberman

  In the late 1960s, when Jean-Luc Godard was at the acme of his influence, Manny Farber concluded an enthusiastic if grudging appreciation with a... More >>

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  Haywire Review

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Haywire's plot is boilerplate triple-cross, cloak-and-dagger stuff — but the action choreography by director Steven Soderbergh and former... More >>

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  Miss Bala Review

  By Karina Longworth

  Mexico's submission for the Foreign-Language Film Oscar race, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala literally spells out the destiny of its would-be... More >>

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