comedy
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Magic in the Moonlight
Woody Allen returns to his touristic tendencies in Magic in the Moonlight a film set in the gorgeous natural surroundings of...
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The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Kicks Off Tomorrow
The most renowned Jewish film festival in the world, the 34th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, kicks off...
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Premature
If comedic Hollywood has anything to say about it, sex, and its pursuit, is pretty much all the...
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Cinemanovels
In the world of Cinemanovels, the name John Laurentian stands next to famous directors like Bergman and Antonioni....
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Mood Indigo
No filmmaker could pull off adapting Boris Vian’s “unfilmable” novel better than the inventive Michel Gondry. Before the...
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Forev
A lighthearted romantic comedy with few surprises, Forev is the sort of film that does little more than induce...
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Le Chef
For a film about the culinary arts, a world driven by passion, sweat, and sleepless nights, Le Chef is...
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A Hard Day’s Night Get’s the Criterion 50th Anniversary Restoration It Deserves
When it was released in 1964, Time magazine called A Hard Day’s Night “One of the smoothest, freshest, funniest films...
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Begin Again
Following the success of Once, director John Carney was afforded a bigger budget and bigger stars to help...
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Bad Words
Perhaps in an effort to shake his typical “good guy” role, Jason Bateman plays a foul-mouthed asshole in...
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They Came Together
Writers David Wain and Michael Showalter won over audiences (though not critics) with their 2001 nostalgic summer-camp satire...
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Happy Christmas
No one makes indie improvisational comedies fixated on placid relationship observations better than Joe Swanberg. He spent his...
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A Coffee in Berlin
Like a lost relic from the French New Wave, A Coffee in Berlin dazzles with its melancholic black-and-white imagery and...
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David Zellner on Blurred Reality, ‘Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter’
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter follows a driven Japanese office assistant (Rinko Kikuchi) who, believing a buried treasure from...
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A Picture of You
A Picture of You is a sharp, mischievous family drama from filmmaker J.P. Chan, who wrote, directed, and...