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BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN I watched this film with curiosity and awe. In the awe category,…

BY NEIL FAUERSO Zhang Yimou’s Hero, with its gorgeous visuals, liberal use of slow-motion, melancholic…

BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN Did we really need another surfing movie? In this case, absolutely yes.…

IT’S RARE IN THIS AGE OF films like White Chicks and Alien Vs. Predator to…

The crossover is beyond risky—it’s near career suicide. When an actor tries to cut an…

BY NEIL FAUERSO If nothing else, About Schmidt is revolutionary as one of the first…

BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN In the 1970s, San Diego’s favorite anchorman Ron Burgundy delivered the nightly…

BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN IN 1971, The French Connection set a whole new standard for chase…

BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN The big bad pharmaceuticals are at it again, this time dispensing experimental…

BY NEIL FAUERSO IT’S STRANGE THAT LARRY DAVID, such a nerdy, prickly middle-aged nebbish, is…

BY NEIL FAUERSO Dogville is a viewing experience akin to 2001, The Stunt Man, or…

BY NEIL FAUERSO Donnie Darko takes place one October in 1988 in a wealthy suburban…

BY PATRICIA DRAZNIN In 1958, 15 sled huskies led a Japanese expedition through the arctic.…