Michael Moore's Sicko
Christopher Hayes:Michael Moore's healthcare documentary is less partisan, less outrageous--but more real--than anything he's done before.
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Fitna's Hateful Crusade
Aziz Huq:The new film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders is the latest in a series of stunts aimed at humiliating and scapegoating Muslims.
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Photo Ops
Stuart Klawans:Errol Morris's new documentary Standard Operating Procedure lacks critical distance but produces masterful evocations of Abu Ghraib.
2009
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Survivors
Stuart Klawans
Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun
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Emotional Rescue
Stuart Klawans
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum, Jane Campion's Bright Star
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Creatures of the Night
Stuart Klawans
Park Chan-wook's Thirst, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Lorna's Silence and Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman.
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Live Long and Prosper
Stuart Klawans
J.J. Abrams's Star Trek, Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours
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Pure Cinema
Stuart Klawans
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys, Erick Zonca's Julia, Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control.
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Lonely Blue Boys
Stuart Klawans : Film
Zack Snyder's Watchmen, Tony Gilroy's Duplicity, Greg Mottola's Adventureland.
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The Mutual Human Concern
Stuart Klawans
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, Steve McQueen's Hunger, Andrzej Wajda's Katyn.
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Nation Critic's Picks: Gomorah, The Class
Brett Story : Video
The Nation's film critic Stuart Klawans weighs in on two of the most acclaimed foreign films of 2008.
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2008
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Epic Moments
Gus Van Sant's Milk, Baz Luhrmann's Australia, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy.
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The Dread of Failure
Reviews: Arnaud Desplechin's enchanted A Christmas Tale and Charlie Kaufman's brilliant Synedoche, New York.
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Panoramas
24 City and Ashes of Time Redux, two stars of the New York Film Festival; plus Happy-Go-Lucky and Ballast reviewed.
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Burned Out
Stuart Klawans : Arts, Culture, & Entertainment
The Coen brothers' dark comedy and Godfrey Cheshire's story of plantation life.
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