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Shy Stephane (Gael Gacia Bernal) enlivens his boring life with creative dreams. His relationship with neighbor Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is both enriched and threatened by Stephane’s nocturnal imaginings.

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Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) wants back the money the Ocean’s 11 gang stole from him. Leaders Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) come up with a plan to hit Amsterdam, Rome, and Paris in a series of audacious heists.

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Fed up with her boss Jorge (Kevin Bacon), hair stylist Gina (Queen Latifah) opens her own beauty shop. Much of the entertainment comes from the unusual characters that work, patronize, and hang out at Gina’s new hair salon.

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Three brothers journey to India to find their mother (Angelica Huston) and strengthen their family ties.

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Lawyer Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) gets in a car accident with Doyle Gipson (Samuel Jackson). Instead of doing the right thing, he hastily drives off, forgetting an important files folder. With Doyle in possession of the folder, the two men begin a morally questionable game of blackmail, largely as an outlet for intense pressures in their personal lives.

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As a kid, I was obsessed with Tron. I remember absolutely having to see it, and my parents bought me the book Art of Tron. While other kids clamored for Rocky III I wanted to see computer nerds hacking into a corporate system populated by guys in spandex throwing Frisbees. Today, I live in the Bay Area.

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A recent Woody Allen film, Melinda and Melinda is about 75% enjoyable, 25% close but not cigarette. In the style of the film, I’ll alternate the bad with the good. First, the bad: Pretty much every Woody Allen film as of late has an expected “Woody Allen” role, usually played by Allen himself, but even in films he doesn’t appear in, the persona exists. In Bullets Over Broadway the “Allen role” was played by John Cusak. Hobie (Will Ferrel) is the Woody surrogate in Melinda and Melinda, and unfortunately falls into the trap of doing a Woody Allen impersonation, complete with nebbish whining, neurotic fretting, and hand gestures.

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Remember the artsy chick from college who had her own style, did things independently without any care to what others thought, and had a cute yet polite sense of humor garnered from too many pretend tea parties as a kid? You know the one; she had her own ‘zine, wrote poetry, sang in a band, and didn’t have a boyfriend in order to to focus on her art. Well, she made a film called Me And You And Everyone We Know.

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Sisters Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) and Sole (Lola Duenas) cope with their mother’s recent death, while Raimunda in particular has unspoken issues. Several unusual events force the sisters to come to a reconciliation sooner than later, and some deep, dark family secrets are revealed.

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Despite its silliness and suffering from an all-too-common case of sequel-itis, I found Superman III decent entertainment, mostly due to Richard Pryor, Annette O’Toole… and drunk Superman.

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