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Looking back at Sarah Polley’s first TIFF triumph
We’ve been writing about Sarah Polley in these pages for a long time. It’s sort of hard not to, given the space she’s created for... -
40 at 40: Jeff Bridges and cult classic The Big Lebowski
Look at Jeff Bridges on that cover. Just look at him. He’s 48, he’s happy and he has absolutely no idea he’s just played the... -
Manchester’s Mad Music
24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, produced by Andrew Eaton, with Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Sean Harris and... -
Sick Siblings
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962, Robert Aldrich Rating: NNNN Rating: NNNNNBette Davis and Joan Crawford star in one of the most outlandish and... -
The Naked Chef
Rating: NNNMOSTLY MARTHA (Sandra Nettelbeck) Rating: NNN Martha (Martina Gedeck) is a top-notch chef at a Hamburg restaurant. She's also a compulsive workaholic who puts... -
Greek Cheek
Rating: NNNMy Big Fat Greek Wedding is the year's sleeper hit, a throwback romantic comedy whose old-fashioned themes of love and marriage are striking a... -
Sundance Smash
Rating: NNNNThe Believer picked up the Grand Jury Prize at last year's Sundance Film Festival, blowing away the competition with its seemingly unbelievable premise. Twenty-two-year-old... -
Good Girl Gone Bad
Rating: NNNNFriends will soon disappear from TV's Thursday-night lineup, but don't worry about Jennifer Aniston. She'll remain in the spotlight, and not just because she's... -
Lane Does Lyne
UNFAITHFUL (2002, Adrian Lyne) Rating: NNNN Rating: NNNNIn Adrian Lyne's universe, the sex is always overwrought, the lovers are perfectly lit and they pay a... -
XXX
Rating: NNYou know that the spy genre has changed when the secret agent resembles the villains who used to populate the old spy movies. XXX... -
Naked City
Rating: NNNNNFull Frontal is director Steven Soderbergh's dogme version of Day For Night. Soderbergh, who is proving himself the most versatile filmmaker on the planet,... -
Top-Secret Teens
Rating: NNNNNSPY KIDS 2: THE ISLAND OF LOST DREAMS (Robert Rodriguez) There were plenty of raised eyebrows when Robert Rodriguez signed on to write and... -
Flaccid Myers
Rating: NNMike Myers never heard a dick joke he didn't like. In the third Austin Powers flick, Austin Powers In Goldmember, co-writer/star Myers is obsessed... -
Frozen Fable
ATANARJUAT -- THE FAST RUNNER (2001, Zacharias Kunuk) Rating: NNNN Rating: NNNNIf the heat is getting you down, you can spend almost three hours in... -
Body Talk
Rating: NNNNWriter/director Nicole Holofcener has made only two films, but I can't think of another female filmmaker as capable of capturing what it feels like...
