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Using archival footage, Morgen ing-class Vietnam vet who’s desperate because he skillfully interweaves scenes of peace rallies with can’t afford to pay for his male-to-female partner’s devastating images of police brutality. To depict sex reassignment surgery. His occasionally funny the trial itself, he goes out on a limb with mixed ineptitude is ultimately touching; he’s not a ca results, employing motion-capture animation that’s alternately hallucinogenic and hokey. Nick reer criminal, but he complicates the robbery just as often through his humaneness toward his hos Nolte, Hank Azaria, Mark Ruffalo and the late tages as he does through his lack of experience. Roy Scheider provide their vocal talents. A- —Stephen Blair The character is so well drawn and played that Lumet and Pierson don’t have to make any special Originally released in 1975, Dog Day After- case for Sonny’s being human; the film just lets us experience his humanity and that of those around him, even in their moments of greatest conflict. Dog Day Afternoon Dog Day Afternoon is now playing in high defi noon showcases both director Sidney Lumet and star Al Pacino at the peak of their artistry. Based nition at Living Room Theaters, and there’s every on the true story of a bank robber turned unlikely reason to catch it if you can. If you’ve already seen underdog hero named Sonny, the film is a flat-out it, you’ll better appreciate the film’s superb gritty- 4 • . .1 naturalist feel on the big screen. And if you haven’t, well, you’re in for a treat. 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In fact, possibly a divine gift by Lior’s zealously religious mainstream American cinema has rarely been so queer-friendly, even in the years since; this film, father, who drills him on the wisdom of the Torah released only a few years after the Stonewall riots, at his bar mitzvah. Closes March 23 at Hollywood was a hit with a major star that had a rare under Theatre. C+ and leads him to believe the Messiah will appear standing of the ideals of gay liberation. —Tony LeTigre Dog Day Afternoon also demonstrates the rela tive artistic freedom of its time; not for nothing is WWW REPLACEMENT SPECIALLY Stop-Loss the 1970s still thought of as America’s last (and Nine years after her impressive debut feature perhaps final) golden age of cinema. The film is riveting, but it isn’t afraid to slow down in order to gain some depth and traction; Lumet and screen- film, Boys Don’t Cry, queer writer/director Kim berly Peirce returns with this searing yet humane indictment of the war in Iraq. 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