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Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

PLOT: A young Pakistani man, Changez (Riz Ahmed), leaves his family in Lahore to study business at Princeton. From there, he graduates to a large Wall Street firm, and seems to have it all, including an admiring boss (Kiefer Sutherland),...
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Review: Mud

PLOT: Two boys happen upon an outlaw in hiding and help him repair a boat and elude the men who are hunting him. REVIEW: Jeff Nichols is quickly becoming one of my favorite new directors. His 2007 debut, SHOTGUN STORIES,...
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Review: It’s a Disaster

PLOT: A group of friends (Rachel Boston, America Ferrera, Julia Stiles, David Cross, Jeff Grace, Erinn Hayes, Kevin M. Brennan, & Blaise Miller) meeting for their monthly couples brunch discover that a series of dirty bombs have been set off...
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Watch the trailer for controversial Korean crime drama Pieta

PIETA, which beat THE MASTER for the grand prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is finally getting a North American release thanks to Drafthouse Films. Despite getting acclaim across the globe, PIETA failed to qualify for the Academy Award...
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Review: Simon Killer

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2012 coverage. PLOT: Reeling from a bad breakup, a recent college grad, Simon (Brady Corbet) heads to Paris, where he hooks up with a prostitute (Mati Diop), who takes him in....
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Review: Upstream Color

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2013 coverage. PLOT: Kris (Amy Seimetz) is an ambitious exec who, after a chance encounter at a nightclub, wakes up after several days to find she’s lost her job, along with...
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Review: Wrong

PLOT: When Dolph Springer’s beloved dog Paul disappears, he comes to the realization that his pet has been kidnapped. Soon, he is on a strange journey looking for Paul after he discovers who may have taken his dog. He persists...
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