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Director: Curtis Hanson
Stars: Toni Collette, Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

The Plot: Straight-laced Rose (Collette) breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie (Diaz), over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella (MacLaine), the grandmother neither sister knew existed.

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THE BUZZ: 8 out of 10 stars: Is there anything Curtis Hanson can't do? ...more

Review: 8 out of 10 stars

Is there anything Curtis Hanson can't do? The director who made silk purses out of sow's-ear thrillers The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The River Wild, revitalized modern-day film noir with L.A. Confidential, went upscale-bohemian with Wonder Boys and then gritty-urban with 8 Mile...more

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Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Director: Steve Box Nick Park
Stars: Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes (Full Cast)
Studio: DreamWorks Distribution

The Plot: Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest.

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THE BUZZ: 8 out of 10 stars: Beyond a few brief flickers of ill-advised humor, Wallace and Gromit fans can collectively breathe a deep sigh of relief; in their feature-length film debut, the animated hero and his faithful owner remain, as ever, the cheese-loving adventurers we already know and love. ...more

Review: 8 out of 10 stars

Beyond a few brief flickers of ill-advised humor, Wallace and Gromit fans can collectively breathe a deep sigh of relief; in their feature-length film debut, the animated hero and his faithful owner remain, as ever, the cheese-loving adventurers we already know and love. Nick Park, Steve Box and their team of animators have managed to maintain a careful balance between remaining true to the core characteristics of their characters...more

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Waiting...

Director: Rob McKittrick
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, John Francis Daley (Full Cast)
Studio: Lions Gate Films

The Plot: Mitch (Daley), a new employee at Shenanigans, a restaurant known for its impossibly cheery staff, is introduced to "The Game," a competition to be the eatery's top waiter.

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THE BUZZ: 2 out of 10 stars: If Rob McKittrick ever worked in a restaurant, you'd never be able to tell after watching the writer-director's first movie ...more

Review: 2 out of 10 stars: If Rob McKittrick ever worked in a restaurant, you'd never be able to tell after watching the writer-director's first movie, Waiting. This is a comedic miscue that's been reconstituted from a handful of better movies, as well as a failed attempt to set an easy pace and let a talented cast conjure up awful memories of our past careers in food service.

Shot with what had to have been the cheapest film stock available...more

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Two for the Money

Director: D.J. Caruso
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Al Pacino, Rene Russo (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: After suffering a career-ending injury, a former college football star (McConaughey) aligns himself with one of the most renown bookies (Pacino) in the sports-gambling business.

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THE BUZZ: 4 out of 10 stars: Nobody truly embarrasses themselves in Two for the Money, but then again no one delivers a performance that would even be worthy of Golden Globe consideration. ...more

Review: 4 out of 10 stars

Nobody truly embarrasses themselves in Two for the Money, but then again no one delivers a performance that would even be worthy of Golden Globe consideration. A wan imitation of 80s movies that borrows liberally from Wall Street, Top Gun, Tequila Sunrise...more

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The Gospel [limited]

Director: Rob Hardy
Stars: Boris Kodjoe, Nona Gaye, Idris Elba (Full Cast)
Studio: Screen Gems

The Plot: A successful R&B singer who years ago rejected God returns home when his father, a bishop, falls ill.

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THE BUZZ: At least two factors are at work here, ones that should help make The Gospel a success: writer-director Hardy has handled all three chapters of the niche serial Trois, and film execs have learned from Diary of a Mad Black Woman that there's long been a market for spiritual films such as this.

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Elizabethtown

Director: Cameron Crowe
Stars: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures

The Plot: During his trip back to Kentucky for his father's memorial, a dejected young man (Bloom) finds inspiration in the form of a flight attendant (Dunst).

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THE BUZZ: 6 out of 10 stars: "I'm fine" is the half-hearted mantra of the central character in Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, but the phrase could also describe the feel of film itself -- unconvincing and muddled, despite the cheery disposition sometimes plastered painfully across its surface. ...more

Review: 6 out of 10 stars

"I'm fine" is the half-hearted mantra of the central character in Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, but the phrase could also describe the feel of film itself -- unconvincing and muddled, despite the cheery disposition sometimes plastered painfully across its surface.

After the general sense of confusion with which audiences met Vanilla Sky, Crowe has returned to familiar territory here, exploring the life of an individual and the family surrounding him, with Drew (Orlando Bloom) being the individual who has not one but two families -- his immediate family from Oregon, and his father's side of the family in Kentucky...more

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The Fog

Director: Rupert Wainwright
Stars: Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair (Full Cast)
Studio: Columbia Pictures

The Plot: A century ago, a ship carrying a leper colony was purposely wrecked by the founders of an isolated Northern California town. Tonight, the ghosts of those who perished years ago seek to exact their revenge.

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THE BUZZ: As 2005 continues to be the horror genre's undoing, we can file The Fog among such luminaries as Boogeyman, House of Wax, Dark Water, Land of the Dead, Cursed, The Devil's Rejects ... Only The Exorcism of Emily Rose and, if you can believe it, White Noise have fared better than we expected them to.

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Domino

Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Édgar Ramírez (Full Cast)
Studio: New Line Cinema

The Plot: How did the daughter (Knightley) of actor Laurence Harvey go from being a Ford model to becoming a bounty hunter?

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THE BUZZ: Tony Scott's kinetic energy is slathered all over Domino's trailer. Even with aspects of the real Domino's life circumvented (she was an out lesbian), all we need to envision is Ms. Knightley spouting dialogue by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), and we're just about ready to shut out all of this season's man-with-gun pictures.

R.I.P. Ms. Harvey

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Good Night, and Good Luck. [limited]

Director: George Clooney
Stars: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)

The Plot: Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow (Strathairn) looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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THE BUZZ: George Clooney's second film has earned six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay. Accordingly, Warner Independent is putting the film on 900+ screens in the wake of the announcements.

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Nine Lives [limited]

Director: Rodrigo García
Stars: Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Glenn Close (Full Cast)
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

The Plot: Nine women endure the travails and disappointments of life.

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THE BUZZ: Each vignette here is shot in real time, and the camera never moves from a single location. Garcia is no stranger to the format, but obviously the director is feeling the pressure for Women to succeed, as he's best remembered for his film Things You Can Tell by Just Looking at Her -- a high-profile Sundance buy back in 2000 that never made it to theaters.

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The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till [limited]

Director: Keith Beauchamp
Stars: (Full Cast)
Studio: THINKFilm

The Plot: Never-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman.

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THE BUZZ: New York Magazine said this film is "The most important documentary of the year and an essential tale of what it means to be an American." More good press: director Beauchamp and distributor ThinkFilm have agreed to donate a portion of the film's theatrical revenue to the New Orleans relief effort.

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Where the Truth Lies [LA/NY]

Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman (Full Cast)
Studio: THINKFilm

The Plot: A journalist (Lohman) schemes to discover the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives of a 50s showbiz duo (Bacon and Firth).

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THE BUZZ: A time-jumping noir from one of our favorite directors, who adapted the novel by Rupert Holmes, sounds like just the thing for fall, and the ratings controversy raised toward the end of summer might edge more people into theaters than anyone first imagined. After all, who doesn't want to see a threeway involving Bacon and Firth? Talk about one degree of separation ...

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Innocent Voices [LA/NY]

Director: Luis Mandoki
Stars: Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela, Xuna Primus (Full Cast)
Studio: Polychrome Pictures

The Plot: Set in the mid-1980s El Salvador, in the midst of the country's civil war, a young boy must decide between enlisting in the army or join up with guerrillas

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THE BUZZ: Sometime-Hollywood director Mandoki returned to his native Mexico and emerged with Voices, which was poised to win the Best Film prize at Mexico's Ariel Awards (it lost to another anticipated film, Duck Season). Still, with a handful of lesser Ariels and awards from other festivals, Voices could make a home for itself during this busy season.

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Shopgirl

Director: Anand Tucker
Stars: Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman (Full Cast)
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures

The Plot: When Mirabelle (Danes) is seduced Ray Porter (Martin), a wealthy and caring older man, her life takes a much-needed turn for the better. But in time, she must make a choice between Ray and Jeremy (Schwartzman), a struggling musician closer to her age ... but maybe not to her heart.

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THE BUZZ: Kinda stoked for the feature version of Martin's perfectly simple novella, which became a major best-seller. Jimmy Fallon was originally set to star as Jeremy, and we were relieved when Schwartzman got the role. None of this explains how director Tucker (Hilary and Jackie) got the job, however.

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North Country

Director: Niki Caro
Stars: Charlize Theron, Jeremy Renner, Frances McDormand (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: A fictionalized account of Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, where a female miner (Theron) who endures a range of abuses files a landmark lawsuit.

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THE BUZZ: 7 out of 10 stars: Even with a stellar lead performance by Charlize Theron, North Country is a movie ultimately unable to overcome a trifurcated split personality that makes it part earnest issue movie, part effective family drama, and part opportunity for a number of movie stars to dress up like poor people. ...more

Review: 7 out of 10 stars

Even with a stellar lead performance by Charlize Theron, North Country is a movie ultimately unable to overcome a trifurcated split personality that makes it part earnest issue movie, part effective family drama, and part opportunity for a number of movie stars to dress up like poor people. Director Niko Caro (Whale Rider)...more

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Kids in America [limited]

Director: Josh Stolberg
Stars: Gregory Smith, Julie Bowen, Malik Yoba (Full Cast)
Studio: Launchpad Releasing LLC

The Plot: When their school principal (Bowen) cracks down on free speech, seven teens are encouraged by one of their teachers (Yoba) to stage a series of protests.

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THE BUZZ: TV writer Josh Stolberg is using Nicole Richie's small role (and her so-last-year feud with Paris Hilton) to hype America's release. Looks like Stolberg has a sociopolitical intent here, and it's cool to see that he's an active voice on the film's official site.

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Doom

Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Stars: Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Dwayne Johnson (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: In the year 2145, a group of Marines on Phobos, one of Mars' moons, face off against monsters who infiltrate their base after an experiment goes seriously awry.

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THE BUZZ: 3 out of 10 stars: Despite entering the theater with a mix of anticipation and lowered expectations, the long-awaited Doom sadly earns a mere three points out of ten: one for the fact that it wastes no time getting into the story; another for the soap-operatic character arc created for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson; and a third for a Gamer's Delight violent spree at the movie's end. ...more

Review: 3 out of 10 stars: Despite entering the theater with a mix of anticipation and lowered expectations, the long-awaited Doom sadly earns a mere three points out of ten: one for the fact that it wastes no time getting into the story; another for the soap-operatic character arc created for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson; and a third for a Gamer's Delight violent spree at the movie's end. Unfortunately, every other aspect of the production is clichéd in its conception and cheap in its design...more

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Stay

Director: Marc Forster
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

The Plot: A therapist at an Ivy League school (McGregor) tries to prevent a student (Gosling) from committing suicide.

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THE BUZZ: 3 out of 10 stars: What if you set up a mystery but gave out no clues? Then you'd have something like Stay, an obtuse, opaque mystery that lets its viewers in on the game far, far too late. ...more

Review: 3 out of 10 stars

What if you set up a mystery but gave out no clues? Then you'd have something like Stay, an obtuse, opaque mystery that lets its viewers in on the game far, far too late. Kind of a psychological thriller, kind of a supernatural tale, it takes a very lovely cast and gives them very little to do. With its industrialized sets, snazzy editing...more

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Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

Director: John Gatins
Stars: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Oded Fehr (Full Cast)
Studio: DreamWorks Distribution

The Plot: A trainer (Russell) and his daughter (Fanning) nurse an injured horse back to health, with an eye on racing her in the Breeders' Cup.

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THE BUZZ: 8 out of 10 stars: If there was a movie I absolutely did not want to see this year, it was Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story. So of course I loved about every minute of it. ...more

Review: 8 out of 10 stars: If there was a movie I absolutely did not want to see this year, it was Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story. So of course I loved about every minute of it. A supremely well-done family movie about a girl, her dad, a horse, and lots of love, it's about as clichéd a story as you'll ever find, but in the hands of writer-director John Gatins...more

Message Boards: Best Actor. | Kurt Russell and Kris Kristofferson rock!!!!!!!

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang [limited]

Director: Shane Black
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: A murder mystery brings together a private eye (Kilmer), a struggling actress (Monaghan), and a thief masquerading as an actor (Downey Jr.).

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THE BUZZ: If you can buy Michelle Monaghan as a peer of Robert Downey Jr., chances are you're within the target audience here. And if you like an elliptical plot and gross-out humor, this is exactly what you have been waiting for from director Shane Black (writer of Lethal Weapon) all these years.

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After School Special [limited]

Director: David M. Evans
Stars: Erik von Detten, Tony Denman, Daniel Farber (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

The Plot: When their smut connection dries up, three high school pals set out to make their own porno movie.

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THE BUZZ: More interesting than the fact that Amy Smart, Tom Arnold and Saturday Night Live's Horatio Sanz have small roles in this National Lampoon presentation is this trivia item: the director has handled his fair share of family films, including movements 3 and 4 of the Beethoven serial.

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Ushpizin [10/19 -- LA/NY]

Director: Giddi Dar
Stars: Shuli Rand, Michal Bat-Sheva Rand (Full Cast)
Studio: Picturehouse Entertainment

The Plot: An Orthodox Jewish couple's faith is tested after praying to the Lord for a child on the Succoth holiday.

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THE BUZZ: A critical and commercial success in Israel, Ushpizin is further distinguished by the participation of Shalom Rand, a once-famous Israeli actor who turned away from the industry and embraced religion.

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Protocols of Zion [LA/NY]

Director: Marc Levin
Stars: Marc Levin, Al Levin (Full Cast)
Studio: HBO Films

The Plot: A post-9/11 encounter with a taxi driver causes filmmaker Marc Levin to explore the rise of religious intolerance, particularly anti-Semitism.

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THE BUZZ: The scope of Levin's endeavor here goes beyond the exploration of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a century-old forgery that outlines the Jews' plan to rule the world. Somehow, in just over 90 minutes, he addresses his own family history, Daniel Pearl's beheading, The Passion of the Christ, and other threads. Sounds fascinating, if not potentially muddled.

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The Weather Man

Director: Gore Verbinski
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures

The Plot: A Chicago weather man (Cage), separated from his wife and children, must decide whether personal and professional successes are mutually exclusive.

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THE BUZZ: 5 out of 10 stars: Whereas American Beauty attempted to be about the quiet desperation of the American bourgeois, The Weather Man is about the grim dissatisfaction of the entertainment professional. ...more

Review: 5 out of 10 stars: Whereas American Beauty attempted to be about the quiet desperation of the American bourgeois, The Weather Man is about the grim dissatisfaction of the entertainment professional. For most people that aren't, in some regard, in show business, this movie will probably be a series of near-misses as it attempts to speak to them...more

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Saw II

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Beverley Mitchell, Franky G (Full Cast)
Studio: Lions Gate Films

The Plot: The serial killer known as "Jigsaw" is back, and this time he has eight victims locked up and forced to play deadly games in order to stay alive. Detective Eric Mason (Wahlberg), meanwhile, continues the work of his predecessors as he tries to break-up Jigsaw's game.

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THE BUZZ: By now Saw's success story is old hat, and the movie's many fans and detractors are battling out the merits of the sequel online. We know that Amanda (Shawnee Smith) is back, and apparently she needs to learn another lesson. But we're also hearing that Beverley Mitchell, a.k.a the middle sister on 7th Heaven is the real scream queen here.

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Prime

Director: Ben Younger
Stars: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: A career driven professional from the Upper East Side (Uma Thurman) is wooed by a young painter from Brooklyn (Greenberg), who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst (Meryl Streep).

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THE BUZZ: For his first major role, Greenberg slides up next to Thurman and Streep -- no performance anxiety there. Sandra Bullock was originally set to star, but rumor has it she wasn't satisfied with the script, and then it was all presto-changeo Uma. We smell Golden Globes and Independent Spirit Awards.

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The Legend of Zorro

Director: Martin Campbell
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell (Full Cast)
Studio: Columbia Pictures

The Plot: Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Alejandro de la Vega (Banderas) -- and his wife, Elena (Zeta-Jones) -- to take action.

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THE BUZZ: 6 out of 10 stars: I always used to say that The Mask of Zorro was the best Steven Spielberg movie not actually directed by Steven Spielberg. ...more

Review: 6 out of 10 stars

I always used to say that The Mask of Zorro was the best Steven Spielberg movie not actually directed by Steven Spielberg. The 1998 action-fest, actually executive-produced by Spielberg, and starring an on-the-rise Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones...more

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Three... Extremes [limited]

Director: Fruit Chan Takashi Miike
Stars: Ling Bai, Byung-hun Lee, Kyoko Hasegawa (Full Cast)
Studio: Lions Gate Films

The Plot: A trilogy of horror films from directors Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, and Chan-wook Park.

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THE BUZZ: This sort-of sequel to Three boasts cross-the-board cinematography by Christopher Doyle and a penchant for wounded tongues. Dumplings, Chan's entry, is perhaps the best-received of the shorts, and you can probably find the feature version of it on eBay.

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G [limited]

Director: Christopher Scott Cherot
Stars: Richard T. Jones, Blair Underwood, Chenoa Maxwell (Full Cast)
Studio: Aloha Releasing Inc.

The Plot: A remix of The Great Gatsby, set in the Hamptons, as a hip-hop star (Jones) re-encounters the woman who rejected him ten years ago when he was nothing but a social climber.

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THE BUZZ: Writer-director Cherot has been quiet since Hav Plenty in the late 90s, but his latest film has the makings of a niche hit -- especially with Jones and Underwood in big roles.

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Paradise Now [LA/NY]

Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Stars: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)

The Plot: Two Palestinian friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

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THE BUZZ: This harrowing film, which looks at 24 hours in the lives of its two central characters, went 3-for-4 at the Berlin Film Festival. But it didn't win the Golden Bear as everyone thought it would; in fact, one wire service announced that it had won before the nominations were even read.

Message Boards: I've thought a lot about PN; ultimately, it is misleading and dangerous | Is this movie pro-terrorism or anti-terrorism?

New York Doll [LA/NY]

Director: Greg Whiteley
Stars: Arthur Kane, David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain (Full Cast)
Studio: Vivendi Entertainment

The Plot: Arthur "Killer" Kane, a recovering alcoholic and recently converted Mormon, is invited to reunite with his band, glam rock pioneers The New York Dolls, some thirty years after their starry demise.

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THE BUZZ: The casual music fan may be aware of, but not completely familiar with the music of the New York Dolls, the seminal rock group that spawned a million imitators. Such a quasi-awareness may make it sadly difficult for New York Doll, the story of Arthur "Killer" Kane (the group's bassist) to gain footing, but interviews with the likes of lead singer David Johansen and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, not to mention Iggy Pop and Chrissie Hynde, should draw the music movie fans in dedicated, if not smaller droves, which could feed good word-of-mouth once the fascinating life of "Killer" is revealed.

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