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MARCH 28 - APRIL 3, 2006
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ANOTHER PUBLIC ENEMY (dir: Woo-Suk Kang, R) – A tough minded prosecutor uncovers a vast conspiracy in this hit Korean crime drama. |
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THE CONFESSOR (dir: Lewin Webb, PG-13) – Christian Slater plays a priest (yup) who defies church authority to investigate a murder with the help of spooky-eyed Canadian actress Molly Parker. | |||
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EXILES (dir: Tony Gatlif, Not Rated) – A young bohemian couple from Paris impulsively set out for Algeria and as with all great road movies the journey becomes the destination. Know what I’m saying? |
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G (dir: Christopher Scott Cherot, R) – Hip-Hop hits the Hamptons when a music mogul is re-united with the woman who broke his heart and the man she left him for in this updated version of The Great Gatsby. | |||
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GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’ (dir: Jim Sheridan, R) – It will take more than getting shot nine times to stop 50 Cent from making his atrocious acting debut. |
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I LOVE YOUR WORK (dir: Adam Goldberg, R) – A cast including Giovanni Ribisi, Christina Ricci, Vince Vaughn, Jason Lee and Franka Potente viciously send up Hollywood with this story of a stressed out star who reaches his breaking point. | |||
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*KING KONG (dir: Peter Jackson, PG-13) – This lovely and subtle ode to inter-species love may have been made on a shoe-string budget, but it looks like a million bucks! |
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LOLLILOVE (dir: Jenna Fischer, Not Rated) – This savagely funny mockumentary follows a painfully clueless wealthy couple who think they can eradicate homelessness with inspirational lollipops. Featuring cameos by Linda Cardellini and Judy Greer. | |||
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MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (dir: Rob Marshall, PG-13) – If you like your overblown epics visually striking but emotionally uninvolving, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA is two and a half hours of gorgeous costume and set design that you can’t bring yourself to care about. |
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^SIX FEET UNDER: SEASON 5 (dir: Alan Ball, Not Rated) – Sadly, all great things must come to an end. THE SOPRANOS final season will be out later this year. | |||
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SOLITUDE (dir: Susan Kraker / Pi Ware, Not Rated) – Two young women get stuck in the Arizona desert when their car breaks down. When the brother of one comes to pick them up, the psychological games begin. |
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A SOUND OF THUNDER (dir: Peter Hyams, PG-13) – Here’s what critics are saying about this Edward Burns/Ben Kingsley sci-fi adventure film: Shoddy and ridiculous. Perfect in its awfulness. Awash in bad hairpieces. Profoundly unconvincing CGI. Looks patently fake. Murky. A level of badness that is its own form of sublimity. Clunky and cheesy. Plodding and bloated. Shockingly bad. Should I stop yet? This could go for a long time. | |||
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STAY (dir: Marc Forster, R) – If you’re in the mood for a Naomi Watts movie where she isn’t getting all googly eyed over an ape there’s STAY, a thriller in which she and Ewan McGregor try and save Ryan Gosling from a nasty end. |
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THE TENANTS (dir: Danny Green, R) – Dylan McDermott and Snoop Dogg play struggling writers sharing an apartment and the love of a beautiful woman. Yup. | |||
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TOWNES VAN ZANDT: BE HERE TO LOVE ME (dir: Margaret Brown, Not Rated) – Featuring interviews and performances by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and Kris Kristofferson, this documentary shines a light on the life and music of Townes Van Zandt, the man Steve Earle describes as “the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” |
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2001 MANIACS (dir: Tim Sullivan, R) – It’s a gore-soaked good time when Robert “Don’t call me Freddy Krueger” Englund lures some spring break students to his annual barbecue. | |||
| * = Greg's pick of the week ^ = Bart's pick of the week | ||||||