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Claude Chabrol's latest film is based on a Ruth Rendell novel and, though not one of his best films, is still a good reminder of the madness that sometimes lurks in plain sight.

The film follows around comedian and politico Franken without managing to either inflame or inspire the viewer or add much new information to Franken's already well-documented history.

This film is not a freak show or exposé but rather a call to arms to pick sides in the deepening cultural, political, and spiritual schism between the two Americas of the 21st century.

Everyone complains about the perceived shortcomings of the MPAA, Hollywood's movie-ratings board, but nobody does anything. Nobody, that is, until activist documentarian Kirby Dick.

Don't confuse this Sundance charmer with My Big Fat Mexican Debut, for its farcical scenes of high hair and waltzes form a genial, light-comic prism for watching race, age, class, and sexuality collide in one of America's most economically and ethnically complex cities.

The high school comedy of co-creators Dinello, Colbert, and Sedaris is completely over the top in its audacity and absurdity.

The GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam war is recounted in this revelatory documentary whose current implications cannot be underestimated.

This is a thinking person’s action film – a futuristic slice of pop-culture agitprop, replete with a costumed antihero, lovingly choreographed action sequences, cunningly ornate dialogue, and a terrific, rousing score.

Tommy Lee Jones has made a modern Western in the culturally askew tradition of Peckinpah, Huston, and Boetticher. Don't let the near-impossible-to-remember title keep you away from this singular and slightly surreal scorcher.

Where else can you see Iggy Pop & the Stooges back to back with Morrissey, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes, and Nine Inch Nails? Nowhere but in this rambling, celebratory documentary, which covers performances from all six years of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival and manages to catch the laid-back, slow-fi charm of the actual event.

Instead of a great story about the conflicted origins of the American nation, Terrence Malick interrupts his transcendental observations for a dopey love story between John Smith and Pocahontas.

In this horror film, three backpackers check in to the wrong hostel where, unbeknownst to them, very bad things happen from dusk till dawn.

Munich is dense, thoughtful filmmaking that nonetheless flies along: Seething not only with multilayered, subtextual arguments, it’s also a heck of a thriller.

This documentary about Americans' love of bowling traces our fascination through the sport's glory decades and eventual decline to its recent revival.

Romero has again crafted a character-driven horror film that doubles as a metaphor for the economic disparity in America and, to a lesser degree, the war on terror.

It’s an only-in-America tale about kids in the Tennessee hamlet of Whitwell and their "paper clip project” – a teaching tool meant to help them comprehend the dimensions of the Holocaust – but it grew into something much, much more.

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Kids adventure movie stars a boy and his prize steer – and a host of star cameos.

New dog. Old tricks.

A timely documentary look at Arab news network al Jazeera.

Profile of L.A. radio deejay Rodney Bingenheimer, perpetual handmaiden to rock & roll royalty.

Charlize Theron gives a ferocious performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos.

A hip-hop artist and a Jewish American Princess discover that bling-bling makes the world go ’round.

The answers to this new Bob Dylan movie are "blowin’ in the wind."

Volunteers of America: If you're feeling sinister, North Loop's newest wants you.

Tom Clancy's CIA agent Jack Ryan makes his fourth film appearance in this thriller.