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If there is a moral limit to artistic license, director Alice Winocour has gone beyond it in Augustine.
Fitzgerald's novel is overrated, but the new film version deserves more credit than it has received.
Midnight in Paris earned Woody Allen his fourth Oscar and was the biggest box office success in his long and productive filmmaking career.
Srđan Dragojević’s film about the aspirations of gay Serbs may finally be puncturing a culture of homophobia.
John Madden, the distinguished British director of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, tells us that his film has the structure of a Shakespearean comedy.
Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation portrays an Iranian divorce under sharia law with sensitivity and pathos.
Swinton gives her all to the martyred victim in We Need to Talk about Kevin.
If Greenaway correctly diagnosed the aesthetic crisis of modern film, The Tree of Life is the remedy.
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