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'Chicken With Plums' has its virtuoso moments
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - September 6, 2012
The film, about a man whose violin, and life, is demolished, is told in a magical realist style, and has an exotic flavor worth sampling.
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'The Words' is a literary scoundrel itself
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - September 6, 2012
Bradley Cooper plays a man who longs to be a writer, but may not have what it takes. Then the man finds a yellowed manuscript.
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'Bachelorette': Messy, mean-spirited
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - September 6, 2012
These Bridesmaid-zillas aren't fun to watch, and bizarre tone shifts don't help, either.
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'Side by Side' documents death of film spool
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY - August 30, 2012
George Lucas, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese and others offer a bittersweet farewell to the photochemical process.
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'For a Good Time, Call' may arouse interest
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY - August 30, 2012
Like a lot of sexual banter, the sitcom-styled film does its share of teasing, but amounts to nothing serious.
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Rabbi to the rescue in 'Possession'
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - August 30, 2012
But it's the only fresh element in the tired sub-genre of demon-child horror movies. A climactic strobe effect is more annoying than scary.
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Offbeat 'Sleepwalk With Me' is no snooze
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - August 30, 2012
Comedian Mike Birbiglia's semi-autobiographical film has a low-key style that is alternately funny and melancholy.
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'Lawless' feels limp despite blood
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - August 29, 2012
This Prohibition-era story of a trio of bootlegging brothers looks good but feels anachronistic.
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Oscar's best midseason prospects
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY - August 23, 2012
The first eight months of this Hollywood calendar year seems especially barren, but a few films could be waiting for the envelope to open.
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'Red Hook Summer' never takes shape
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - August 23, 2012
A teen comes to stay with his preacher grandfather in Brooklyn in a drama that feels like several ideas in search of an overarching story.
