Movie Review | 'Norikoâs Dinner Table': A Cult Swallows Up Teenagers for a Strange Rental Business
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One of the most ambitious tonal mash-ups in memory, âNorikoâs Dinner Tableâ is a domestic comedy, a bloody psychological thriller and a comment on the fragility of identity.
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The film has many an interesting nugget about it.
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Perfect for a culture obsessed with its innards, a new documentary dispenses with all the plot nonsense of CSI and House. One high-def shot after another of visceral video -- cold beer flowing down a man's gullet, or a teen's muscle-and-bone growth spurt -- show beauty is more than skin deep.
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MTV's fiction show effectively evokes the hot, tribal mentality of high school kids who might just redeem their adolescence with sex.
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'License to Wed' has a creepy subtext for a family comedy.
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A new film will examine a centuries-old tradition among some underprivileged Indian communities where girls in the family become prostitutes, with their brothers and fathers acting as pimps.
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This six-part documentary portrays the world of the brothel in terms of its hierarchies and feuds and both its inclinations and aversions toward sorority.
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âFierce People,â completed in 2004 and just being released, is the product of a business in which too many movies are vying for too few weekends.
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While âRolling Like a Stoneâ has poignant and funny moments, itâs a serious film about mortality, success and the ephemeral nature of experience and memory.
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Many teens, and some a bit older, will be spending this Halloween visiting a creepy, ghoul-filled haunted house, or watching a gory, horror flick. They'll say they love to shiver in fear and scream in terror.
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Move over Japanese horror film makers: The best stuff is coming out of Korea these days. Get ready for some really weird, genre-bending movies. By Jason Silverman.
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"Legong: Dance of the Virgins" is a delirious blend of sentimental fiction and ethnological fact. Also, Orson Welles's "It's All True" and "Spider-Man 2."
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Flaming skulls, cheesy acting, satanic motorcycles -- what's not to like? In Table of Malcontents.
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Damn those movie critics - and I make that statement fully understanding the irony behind it. Every now and then, for whatever reason, it seems as if critics get together in a secret clubhouse and decide to tear a picture to shreds.
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BERLIN, Feb 12 (Reuters Life!) - An Istanbul clerk finds his simple, devout life turned upside down when an Islamic group employs him as its debt collector in a Turkish film which aims to show how religious devotion can be tainted by hypocrisy.
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Even when director Werner Herzog turns his hand to an action movie based on true events, the results are more than a little strange
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The film funnyman is trying to rebound from a career slump with a new thriller -- and a new spiritual path. Joel Stein peeks into the eternal weirdness of Jim Carrey's mind