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Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet enter Philip
K. Dick-style mindfuck territory in this ambi­
tious if overlong movie from French director
Michel Gondry. Carrey, who looks unnervingly
like Gus Van Sant throughout, is mercifully
restrained, and Winslet’s a gcxxl match as the
femme fatale who toys with him. The byzan-
tine plot twists and “what’s reality 7' shifts can
be confusing, but the film is ultimately affect­
ing. Prepare for long conversations afterward
about what it all means.
— G ary Morris
G ood B ye , L enin !
Alex, a 20-something rebelling against the
German Democratic Republic of the late ’80s,
is an overcompensating neurotic. His extreme
devotion is not so much to his mother but to
their shared dysfunctional constructs of help­
lessness and political disillusionment “behind
the Wall.” Award-winning filmmaker Wolf­
gang Becker offers a strained portrayal of the
difficulties of trusting emerging realities in a
world of compounded illusions. Opens
March 19 at Cinema 21.
— Kobe Kemple
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It doesn’t get any worse than 2003
Bennifer bomb Gigli, right? Think again.
Writer/director Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy)
replaces comic relief (his Jay and Silent
M EN
Bob characters have been retired) with obvi­
ous, nauseating schmaltz in this lame story of a
father (Ben Affleck) forced to forego his fast-
paced PR career after his wife (Jennifer Lopez)
dies in childbirth.
— Jim Radas ta
M y A rchitect
In this Oscar-nominated documentary,
Nathaniel Kahn profiles his late father, Louis,
who designed some of the 20th century’s
most admired buildings but whose personal
life, if you’ll pardon the metaphor, lacked
structure (mistresses, illegitimate children,
bankruptcy). Through interviews with his
half-sisters and legendary architects like
Frank Gehry and I.M. Pei, the director
strengthens his bond with an enigma who has
been dead for 30 years.
-JR
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son’s propagandist^ epic:
Pretend you don’t know anything
about this story or about world religion or
about Mel Gibson. If you do this, it’s kinda inter­
esting to witness leadership, persecution and tor­
ture in a certain time and place through shadowy,
brooding imagery with some fairly decent acting.
— Lisa Bradshaw
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The film should’ve been overripe and juicy,
Law & Order: SVU meets The N am e o f the
Rose. Instead, it’s mostly tedious.
— Christopher McQuam
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Everything ’70s can be found in this movie
version of the late cop T V show hut, fortunate­
ly, director Todd Phillip» (Old School) has
enough sense not to make it simply a period
parade. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are,
respectively, the overzealously square Starsky
and the slacker dude Hutch, trying to nail a
drug dealer (Vince Vaughn). This film
belongs to the too-good chemistry
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sixth film together.
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roving troupe of actors; Paul Bettany is a priest
with a dark secret who joins them. Together,
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film introduces us to a 12-year-
old girl (Marina Golhahari) who
must disguise herself as a boy to
earn money for her starving fam­
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Bush is cramming fundamental­
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take over a country.
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