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  Lebanon is best movie of 2010

  By J. Hoberman

  Lebanon, written and directed by Samuel Maoz, is not just the year's most impressive first feature but also the strongest new movie of any kind... More >>

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  The American

  By Mark Olsen

  Judging by the advertisements, The American is a fast-paced, stylish thriller starring George Clooney as a dashing, conflicted hero. Yet the... More >>

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  The Last Exorcism is a well-paced tease

  Nick Pinkerton

  WITH A SMALL, well-chosen cast, sly script, and slippery, ambivalent characters, The Last Exorcism gives a welcome twist to the... More >>

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  Life During Wartime by Todd Solondz

  By J. Hoberman

  Elegant opening credits, written like calligraphy on a wedding invitation, yield to a couple in blunt close-up—unhappy, interracial,... More >>

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  Sylvester Stallone in The Expendables

  By Nick Pinkerton

  "If the money's right, we don't care where the job is." So explains the leader of hired-gun task force the Expendables, Barney Ross (Sylvester... More >>

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  Everyone Else

  By J. Hoberman

  An exercise in voyeurism, Maren Ade's superbly performed, emotionally graphic Everyone Else is more fascinating than enjoyable. Placing a... More >>

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  Will Ferell in The Other Guys

  By Nick Pinkerton

  After obligatory helicopter views of New York's skyline open Adam McKay's The Other Guys, we're introduced to Danson and Highsmith (Dwayne... More >>

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  Highlight: Four Nights in Loring

  Join City Pages for a new summer series of movies and music in Loring Park on Tuesdays through August 24. This week, the free event will screen... More >>

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  Dinner for Schmucks with Steve Carell

  By Dan Kois

  In Steve Carell's first few episodes of the American version of The Office, his character, Michael Scott, hewed closely to the template created... More >>

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  Akira Kurosawa's Ran

  The King Lear to the Macbeth of his Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's 1985 epic befits its source by being both a crowning achievement and one of... More >>

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  Restrepo exposes the lives of American soliders

  By Ella Taylor

  In the summer of 2007, two Western journalists dug in with a platoon of American soldiers on a 15-month deployment in the Korengal Valley, a... More >>

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  Salt (Film highlight)

  By Karina Longworth

  In insisting on the moral ambiguity of its protagonist for most of its running time, Salt—famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina... More >>

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  Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Inception is a chilling trip into the psyche...of writer-director Christopher Nolan, an Anglo-American action director who shattered the... More >>

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  The Kids Are All Right

  By J. Hoberman

  Serious comedy, powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo, Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right gives adolescent... More >>

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  Despicable Me a silly, funny ride through 3-D

  By Robert Wilonsky

  As the lights were dimming before a preview screening of Despicable Me, the six-year-old who lives in my house leaned over and said, "I hope this... More >>

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