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Items by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
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Movie Review | 'I Can’t Think Straight': Love Beyond Boundaries
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:21am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one.
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Movie Review | 'The Matador': All the Life Surrounding Death in the Afternoon
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:19am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Stripping away centuries of civilization, “The Matador” confronts something primal in human nature, daring us to do the same.
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Movie Review | 'Quarantine': Infection’s Bad Symptoms
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 4:21am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Quarantine,” yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, delivers the heebie-jeebies with solid acting and perfectly calibrated shocks.
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Movie Review | 'Delwende': In Burkina Faso, Rebellion Stirs
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 4:35am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
In “Delwende” the African filmmaker S. Pierre Yameogo tackles social injustice in present-day Burkina Faso with grace, economy and exquisitely controlled anger.
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Movie Review | 'Able Danger': A Conspiracy Theorist, Closing in on That Smoking Gun
Posted: September 11th, 2008, 4:02am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Modeled on noir and executed on acid, “Able Danger” is a paranoid fantasy of geek superheroics that lunges desperately for political relevance.
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Movie Review | 'Youssou N’Dour: Return to Gorée' and 'Bethânia: Music Is Perfume': A Different Drum
Posted: August 29th, 2008, 10:00pm GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
The music documentaries “Youssou N’Dour: Return to Gorée” and “Maria Bethânia: Music Is Perfume” are mellow as buttermilk and twice as nutritious.
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Movie Review | 'My Mexican Shivah': Jewish Ritual and Mariachi Bands
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 11:43pm GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
What raises this uninhibited hybrid above C level is a director, Alejandro Springall, with a flair for the surreal and a cast that knows its way around a stereotype.
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Movie Review | 'Year of the Fish': A Chinatown Fairy Tale
Posted: August 28th, 2008, 11:17pm GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Year of the Fish” updates an ancient Chinese version of the “Cinderella” story with imagination, charm and just the right amount of sweetness.
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Movie Review | 'What We Do Is Secret': In Search of Posthumous Adulation
Posted: August 7th, 2008, 11:24pm GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“What We Do Is Secret” reveals its hero, Darby Crash, as a disaffected egotist and a magnet for needy weirdoes.
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Movie Review | 'Back to Normandy': Returning to the Scene of a Crime Movie
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 3:56am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Back to Normandy” takes a look at how the making of a film affected the village where it was set.
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Movie Review | 'Canary': A Child’s Odyssey
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 3:37am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Canary” finds inspiration in the deadly sarin nerve gas attacks in the Tokyo subway in 1995.
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Movie Review | 'Mukhsin': A Tomboy in Malaysia Is Introduced to Hormones
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 4:18am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Deceptively simple and threaded with gentle humor, “Mukhsin” paints the turmoil of puppy love on a canvas of family relationships as delightful as it is believable.
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Movie Review | 'Under the Same Moon': Mother and Son, Divided by Border, United by Phone
Posted: March 19th, 2008, 2:38am GMT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Directed, with visible earnestness, by Patricia Riggen, “Under the Same Moon” blunts the hard edges of immigration with a thick coating of preciousness.