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 March 18, 2011Movies Update |
 Movie Review | 'Limitless'A Simple Prescription for Superior PowersBy A. O. SCOTTAn aspiring novelist finds a pharmaceutical cure for writer's block. But does he use this bounty to write more books?  When Art Imitates an Actor's Troubled LifeBy MICHAEL CIEPLYAt the South by Southwest Festival, Jodie Foster discusses making "The Beaver" and her choice of Mel Gibson as its lead actor. ADVERTISEMENT   Movie Review | 'Paul'Calm Down, People; He Comes in PeaceBy MANOHLA DARGISAn extraterrestrial and his human friends hit the road, seeing the best and worst America and its clich?s have to offer.  Movie Review | 'Win Win'Riding the Wave of Life's IndignitiesBy A. O. SCOTTPaul Giamatti plays a struggling suburbanite facing the usual material and moral anxieties in "Win Win," Tom McCarthy's funny and warmhearted new film.  Movie Review | 'The Lincoln Lawyer'Operating on the Margins of Pay-to-Play JusticeBy MANOHLA DARGISMatthew McConaughey plays a Los Angeles shyster in "The Lincoln Lawyer," adapted from Michael Connelly's crime novel.  Movie Review | 'Bill Cunningham New York'Capturing a 'Look at Me' Milieu With Impish ModestyBy CARINA CHOCANORichard Press's documentary "Bill Cunningham New York" follows that "On the Street" fashion photographer of The New York Times.  Movie Review | 'Nostalgia for the Light'Chile's Past Is Present in the DesertBy STEPHEN HOLDEN"Nostalgia for the Light" is the director Patricio Guzm?n's cinematic essay on the search for both our cosmic origins and disappeared political prisoners. Movie Review | 'The Gift to Stalin'Story of a Jewish BoyBy JEANNETTE CATSOULIS"The Gift to Stalin," set in the Kazakh steppe in 1949, tells the story of a Jewish boy who escaped death in a purge and is taken in by an aging railway worker.  Movie Review | 'Cracks'At Desolate Girls' School, Diving Teacher Rules RoostBy STEPHEN HOLDEN"Cracks," a gothically moody girls' school drama adapted from a Sheila Kohler novel, verges on a horror film.  Movie Review | 'Winter in Wartime'Teenager Encounters Adulthood and NazisBy STEPHEN HOLDENMartin Koolhoven's "Winter in Wartime," set in a village in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, is an adaptation of a semiautobiographical 1972 novel by Jan Terlouw. More ReviewsNews & Features All That Logging in Makes Dropping Out Much More DifficultBy MICHAEL CIEPLYSouth by Southwest, a music, film and interactive technology festival in Austin, Tex., is now exploring the downside of all the media-driven digitization it usually celebrates.  Surveyor of a Desert Where the Past and Present CoexistBy LARRY ROHTERThe documentarian Patricio Guzm?n's new film, "Nostalgia for the Light," another of his looks at the Atacama Desert in Chile, opens on Friday. Netflix Is Said to Be Close to Acquiring a Television ShowBy BRIAN STELTERObtaining the rights to an original television series would put Netflix in the ranks of networks like HBO or ABC. Video The Rules of the Game in a Feudal WorldBy DAVE KEHRThe four films in the DVD collection "Fernando Di Leo: The Italian Crime Collection" represent the mass-production side of 1970s Italian cinema. | Photos & Video |
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