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In Search of a Midnight Kiss and Frozen River: Once More With Failing

Two movies on the extremes we'll go to for love.

Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Germ Limits
Shane West makes a great Darby Crash. But the film is a wreck.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

The Sackness
Reviewed: Baghead
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

The Rocker and Hamlet 2: Stage Plight
A little dumb goes a long way for two films' hapless performers.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Tropic Thunder and Henry Poole Is Here: Mock and Load
Tropic Thunder explodes the war movie; Henry Poole Is Here battles questions of faith.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Happy Feat
Reviewed: Man on Wire
Film Review By Tricia Olzsewski

Pineapple Express and Hell Ride: Dope Operas
Seth Rogen's latest hits some high notes, but Hell Ride is half-baked.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Boy in the Hood
Reviewed: Boy A
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

American Teen and Water Lilies: Inconvenient Youth
Growing up is a headache for
the teenagers in two new movies.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Voting Block
Reviewed: Swing State
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Step Brothers and Chris & Don: A Love Story: Pair Essentials
Two takes on two very
different twosomes.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Quartet Till the End of Time
Reviewed: CSNY: Deja Vu
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

The Dark Knight and Mamma Mia!: Back in Bleak
Heath Ledger is perfect as a bad guy; Mamma Mia! is perfectly lame.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

French Twist
Reviewed: The Last Mistress
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

The Wackness and The Stone Angel:
Into the Weeds
Ben Kingsley is smokin'; The Stone Angel is not.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

The Big Chill
Werner Herzog gives Antarctica the cold shoulder.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Action Comics
An illuminating doc on Hunter S. Thompson; one of Will Smith's weakest action films.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Mother and Child Reunion
A strong anti-war message girds a gentle family story.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

The Incredible Hulk and Savage Grace: Monsters' Ball
The latest Hulk is smartly
big and stupid, while Savage Grace keeps its horrors pretty.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Silverdocs 2008
City Paper's guide to this year's Silverdocs documentary film festival.
Cover Story By Mark Athitakis, Jule Banville, Andrew Beaujon, Matthew Borlik, Mike DeBonis, Kim Gooden, Amanda Hess, Tricia Olszewski, and Ruth Samuelson

Mechanical Love
At 11 a.m. Also at 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 20. Both showings at AFI Silver.
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"Afghanistan on Film"
To Saturday, Sept. 6, at the National Gallery of Art's East Building Auditorium
When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996, Mullah Omar sent his men to shutter the cinemas and torch the films in the national archive. It was a destruction of heritage that would be repeated again...
Sweet Sixteen
Thursday, August 28, at the Library of Congress' Mary Pickford Theater
A proud socialist, director Ken Loach has spent his career studying working-class folk with the same discomforting intensity that Woody Allen employs whenever he trains his camera on Scarlett...
"David Lean: A Centennial Celebration"
To Monday, Sept. 1, at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
The phrase “till death do us part” obviously has little meaning to the titular character of director David Lean’s 1945 comedy, Blithe Spirit. In Lean’s adaptation of Noel...