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The Last Metro 3.0 stars

François Truffaut's entry in the parade of sorrowful and pitiful movies about France under the Occupation is really more of a companion piece to his Day for Night, except that whereas the latter proposed a toast to movie people, this ...

Blood Simple 2.0 stars

This, the first feature of Minnesota-based independent filmmaker Joel Coen (who co-wrote the script with his producer, and brother, Ethan), has something of the old B-movie spirit at its most lofty: that groaning desire to find out how much can ...

Love Me Tonight 4.0 stars

The introductory sequence, in which the rhythmic noises of early-morning Paris are worked into a massive musical number, is in the style of Disney's Silly Symphonies. In most other areas, this Rouben Mamoulian musical is in the style of Ernst ...

Between the Lines 3.0 stars

A different and diffident sort of movie comedy, which takes up the limited-interest subject of a Boston underground newspaper, why it lost its aim in the post-Nixon Seventies, and how it finishes the good fight not with a bang, but ...

Man Bites Dog 0.0 stars

A test of stomach-strength: cold-blooded serial murder, a vat of gore, a bucket of vomit. Any takers? The story is told through the lens of a low-budget documentary film crew (grainy black-and-white), following the killer on his rounds. The complicity ...

A Fish Called Wanda 1.0 stars

Dishonor among thieves, two Brits and two Yanks to be exact, plus a proper bewigged barrister who's drawn into the mess. There are plenty of fresh and funny ideas: the use of foreign languages as an aphrodisiac, a gunsel who ...

Lust in the Dust 0.0 stars

A bust. The secret to the hidden gold of Chili Verde is tattooed on two different women's bottoms: a gimmick very similar was tried in the spaghetti Western, The Stranger and the Gunfighter. Whether this movie has matched that one ...

Undead 0.0 stars

Zombies in Australia, not too different from zombies in Pennsylvania, but spoofier. Low-low-budget and low-low-brow. Photographed all in blue, violet, lavender. With Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins, and Lisa Cunningham; written, directed, produced, and edited by the Spierig brothers, ...

My Soul to Take 0.0 stars

The Riverton Ripper, after a sixteen-year hiatus, strikes again. Has he returned or has he rather been reincarnated? Endangered teenagers in 3‑D, as if they weren’t sufficiently unlifelike already. With Max Thieriot, Emily Meade, and John Magaro; directed by Wes ...

Lost in Yonkers 1.0 stars

It commences in the summer of '42 and continues for a period of ten months, the length of stay of two early-teen brothers with their tyrannical grandmother in the wake of their mother's death and while their father is away ...