In Francine, Melissa Leo plays a casualty from the low end of the 99 percent who tries to rebuild her life after prison. It is low-budget realism at its best, with a few people in the …

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In Night of Silence, the Turkish director Reis Celik takes an old formula and an old tradition, and turns it into a night of talk and transformation. David D’Arcy is at the Berlin International Film Festival, …

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The Imposter, a documentary by Bart Layton, revisits the trail of a missing child, and the con-man who stole his identity. The story doesn’t end with the conviction of a serial grifter. Did the child’s family …

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David D’Arcy reviews West of Memphis, a documentary investigation, into the wrongful murder convictions of three teenagers in 1994,  that screened at Sundance Film Festival 2012. The fourth film on the subject, this one is directed …

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Meryl Streep Makes Margaret Thatcher mythological in The Iron Lady — will Thatcher (or Streep dressed as Thatcher) be re-elected by the Academy? David D’Arcy has this review.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo rises above almost anything recent in the thriller genre, although the bar isn’t set too high, says David D’Arcy. Director David Fincher rises to the challenge, but Rooney Mara kicks …

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We Need to Talk About Kevin,  is Lynne Ramsey’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s novel about a mother’s painful perspective on a bloody killing by an angry teenager, her son. It’s not for the fainthearted, although Tilda …

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The Descendants by Alexander Payne, adapted from a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, is a heartfelt portrait of a man in middle age who learns about himself, his family, and the beauty around him when his …

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As the year of film festivals gives way to a stampede of hype for annual awards, eyes are now directed toward the Sundance Film Festival. Having been at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, I got an …

It took eight screenwriters to make Tower Heist. After a few minutes, you’ll wonder what it takes to make this Brett Ratner film go away.

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