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  Men in Black III goes back in time to revive franchise

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies in their... More >>

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  Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator

  By Karina Longworth

  In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of fictional... More >>

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  Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's revival of Dark Shadows

  By Nick Pinkerton

  A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts:... More >>

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  Avengers directed by Joss Whedon

  By Karina Longworth

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful, potentially... More >>

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  The Island President is a portrait of lost democracy as well as Mohamed Nasheed

  By Melissa Anderson

  Blessed — or maybe cursed — with fortuitous timing, Jon Shenk's lionizing documentary of Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically... More >>

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  Best of the Twin Cities 2012: Shopping & Services

  Browse all the 2012 winners in the Shopping & Services category. More >>

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  Marley at Lagoon Cinema

  By Melissa Anderson

  Thoroughly researched and packed with phenomenal archival footage, Kevin Macdonald's documentary on the reggae and Rasta emissary, who died of... More >>

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  MSPIFF: Susan Marks's documentary Of Dolls And Murder

  By Ed Huyck

  When most of us think of dollhouses, we conjure images of sweet little girls hosting miniature tea parties: cute, but hardly a subject worth... More >>

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  MSPIFF 2012: Reviews

  By Ed Huyck

  Alps Monday, April 16, at 9:15 p.m.Thursday, April 19, at 9:20 p.m. Countless films have examined the fine line between acting and... More >>

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  The Kid with a Bike directed by the Dardenne brothers

  By Karina Longworth

  The Kid with a Bike, the new film from Belgian art-house legends Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, begins with Cyril, a scrappy 11-year-old living in... More >>

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  Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye profiles Throbbing romance

  By Karina Longworth

  "You fall in love with someone, and there's this moment where you just want to consume each other and not be individuals anymore. We had that so... More >>

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  Footnote is Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee

  By Karina Longworth

  In the first scene of Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi)—a fortysomething Talmudic... More >>

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  The Hunger Games rages against our stupid culture

  By Melissa Anderson

  "If no one watches, then they don't have a game," a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne... More >>

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  Jason Segel in Jeff, Who Lives at Home

  By Brian Miller

  It's obvious that Jason Segel has a face for comedy. He's got a lumpy, sad-sack mug with a dozen inflections to register disappointment,... More >>

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  In Darkness dramatizes another Holocaust horror

  By Michael Atkinson

  Holocaust culture has proven to be essentially infinite. Almost 70 years after the end of World War II, stories of decimation and survival are... More >>

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