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Shelter
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Our review: :Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach spends his days working a dead end job and helping his needy sister care for her son. In his free time he surfs, draws and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe, who lives on the wealthy side of town. When Gabe's older brother, Shaun, returns home, he is drawn to Zach's selflessness and talent. Zach falls in love with Shaun while struggling to reconcile his own desires with the needs of his family. :The feature-film debut from art director Jonah Markowitz (Quinceañera) pivots on the tension between responsibility to family and ...
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Half Nelson
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»rank: 11736
Our review:Description: Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a young inner-city junior high school teacher whose ideals wither and die in the face of reality. Day after day in his shabby Brooklyn classroom, he somehow finds the energy to inspire his 13 and 14-year-olds to examine everything from civil rights to the Civil War with a new enthusiasm. Rejecting the standard curriculum in favor of an edgier approach, Dan teaches his students how change works ' on both a historical and personal scale ' and how to think for themselves. Though Dan is brilliant, dynamic, and in control in the classroom, he spends his time ...
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Storytelling
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»rank: 20124
Our review:Description:From Todd Solondz, the critically acclaimed director of Welcome to the Dollhouse comes a film comprised of two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young hopeful/troubled characters, it explores issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation. :Todd Solondz, director of the acclaimed Welcome to the Dollhouse and the controversial Happiness, continues pushing the envelope of social decorum with the merciless and casually cruel Storytelling, his most ruthless satire of suburban complacency. Broken into two unrelated chapters, 'Fiction' follows college girl Selma Blair through a degrading encounter with her ...
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Edge of Seventeen
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»rank: 19235
Our review:Description:Set in 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, 'Edge of Seventeen' follows the coming-out of a naive 17-year-old teenager at exactly the moment when gender-bending pop stars like Boy George and Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics were flaunting androgynous images. As the youth, played with a heartbreaking sweetness by Chris Stafford, goes through his first rites of gay passage (after being callously used by the slightly older boy who brings him out, he tries to retreat to heterosexuality with his closest female friend) he emerges as a poignant gay everyman. Lea DeLaria is wonderful as his butch lesbian boss at the amusement park restaurant where ...
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Storytelling
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»rank: 53926
Our review: :Todd Solondz, director of the acclaimed Welcome to the Dollhouse and the controversial Happiness, continues pushing the envelope of social decorum with the merciless and casually cruel Storytelling, his most ruthless satire of suburban complacency. Broken into two unrelated chapters, 'Fiction' follows college girl Selma Blair through a degrading encounter with her resentful writing teacher (Robert Wisdom), while the more sprawling and scattershot 'Non-Fiction' circles around the mutual exploitation of a fumbling documentary filmmaker (Paul Giamatti doing a near-parody of director Solondz) and his clueless subject, a suburban high school slacker named Scooby (Mark Webber). The squirmy laughs are laced with humiliation and ...
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What We Do Is Secret
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»rank: 31097
Our review: :Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertain Release Date: 11/04/2008
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The Photographer
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»rank: 60834
Our review:Description:A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night of his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career.
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Seven and a Match
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»rank: 92487
Our review:Description:When twenty-something Ellie invites her old group of college friends up for a weekend at her parents' home in Maine, she has more in mind than just a reunion - but will her friends be accomplices to her desperate plan…. Fueled by alcohol, old attractions and new revelations, the weekend sparks comic, emotionally-charged confrontations in director Derek Simonds' witty and poignant new film.
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Prince of Central Park
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»rank: 98219
Our review:Description:When twenty-something Ellie invites her old group of college friends up for a weekend at her parents' home in Maine, she has more in mind than just a reunion - but will her friends be accomplices to her desperate plan…. Fueled by alcohol, old attractions and new revelations, the weekend sparks comic, emotionally-charged confrontations in director Derek Simonds' witty and poignant new film.
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Santa Fe
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»rank: 80168
Our review:Description:A dangerous passion...a deadly obsession. Eight months after escaping with his wife and daughter from a besieged cult in Wyoming, Paul Thomas (Gary Cole) is trying to rebuild his life in Santa Fe. Returning to his job as a police officer, Paul finds that his now ex-wife has succumbed to another cult and is dragging their daughter into its New Age doctrines. Fearing for their safety, he infiltrates the cult and falls for the beautiful leader, Eleanor (Lolita Davidovich). Will Paul become a member of the cult or find a way to save his family? Sometimes the truth will not set you free!
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