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Reviews

Short Takes: The Sleeping Beauty

By Nicolas Rapold
June 27, 2011

Hooked on classics, Catherine Breillat takes another fairytale for a spin, and her first step in reexamining the story of Sleeping Beauty is a logical one: what the heck did the unconscious princess dream about all that time? Her…

Short Takes: Point Blank

By Laura Kern
June 27, 2011

Thanks to Paul Haggis’s remake, The Next Three Days, Fred Cavayé’s 2008 debut feature, Anything for Her, remains unseen by U.S. audiences. But fortunately the French writer-director’s follow-up, Point Blank, will hit theaters before its inevitable Hollywood makeover, a…

Short Takes: Mozart’s Sister

By Chris Chang
June 27, 2011
(René Féret, France, 2010)

Short Takes: Rapt

By Nicolas Rapold
June 27, 2011

Lucas Belvaux’s chilly new film—the title is French for “kidnapping”—is based on the 1978 case of Edouard-Jean Empain, a French-Belgian industrialist who was seized and held for two months. After aggressive police action, Empain was released without any ransom…

Review: Terri

By Dan Sullivan
June 24, 2011
(Azazel Jacobs, U.S., 2011)

Review: The Last Circus

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
June 24, 2011
(Àlex de la Iglesia, Spain, 2010)

Review: Super 8

By Violet Lucca
June 24, 2011
(J.J. Abrams, U.S., 2011)

Review: Time Code

By Gregory Solman
June 20, 2011
(Mike Figgis, U.S., 2000)

Review: She Hate Me

By Nathan Lee
June 1, 2011
(Spike Lee, U.S., 2004)

Review: Anatomy of Hell

By Nathan Lee
June 1, 2011
(Catherine Breillat, France, 2004)