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Rec 76 Points A beautiful TV reporter and her cameraman are doing a routine interview at a local fire station when an emergency call comes in. Accompanying the firefighters to a nearby apartment, the news team begins recording the bloodcurdling screams coming from inside an elderly woman's unit. After authorities seal off the building to contain the threat, the news crew, firefighters and residents are trapped to face a l ... Item View » |
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Shoot to Kill 51 Points A CITIFIED FBI AGENT TEAMS UP WITH A WILDERNESS TRACKER TO HUNT A MURDEROUS EXTORTIONIST THROUGH THE RUGGED MOUNTAINS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.RatingRFormatDVD ... Item View » |
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Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest 45 Points The final installment of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" trilogy, following The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest finds Lisbeth Salander fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corrupt government in ... Item View » |
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Rare Exports-a Christmas Tale 122 Points Young Pietari lives with his stern reindeer-herding father Rauno in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, an enormous excavation at a nearby mountain disturbs the locals and captures Pietari's curiosity. When Rauno's raindeer herd is mysteriously slain and the children in town go missing, Pietari realizes that the dig has unearthed the evil Santa Claus of local lore - who no one wants coming to town. Pie ... Item View » |
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Dheepan 131 Points On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift "family" sets about establishing a new life--only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris. A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstan ... Item View » |
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Dheepan 165 Points On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift "family" sets about establishing a new life--only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris. A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstan ... Item View » |
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Embrace of the Serpent 153 Points At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the r ... Item View » |
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Wadjda 102 Points WADJDA is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so th ... Item View » |
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Pelle the Conqueror 153 Points A poor Swedish farmer raises his son in a strange Danish land. Directed by Bille August. Oscar for best foreign-language film.RatingPG-13FormatBlu-ray ... Item View » |
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Pelle the Conqueror 122 Points A poor Swedish farmer raises his son in a strange Danish land. Directed by Bille August. Oscar for best foreign-language film.RatingPG-13FormatDVD ... Item View » |
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Lure 165 Points This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up--the bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska--follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teet ... Item View » |
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Gloria 76 Points Gloria is a "woman of a certain age" but still feels young. Though lonely, she makes the best of her situation and fills her nights seeking love at social dance clubs for single adults. Her fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives her all, leaves her vacillating between hope and despair -- until she uncovers a new strength and realizes that, in her gold ... Item View » |
