Allen's `Dream' examines life's savagery
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Woody Allen's latest film touches on all the things he likes to ponder Â that there's no God, that life is savage and fleeting, that anyone potentially can get away with unspeakable acts if they don't have a conscience to bother them.
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An inability to look at dead bodies killed off Mike Nichols' hopes of training as psychiatrist 50 years ago but did nothing to diminish his fascination with marriage, mating and the games people play.
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HBOâs new series âIn Treatmentâ demonstrates Hollywoodâs century-old fascination with Freud and his descendants.
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âMagic Mirrorâ is a droll comedy about the impossibility of shaking the burdens of your dreams and obligations.
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The nightmares didn't start until months after Alicia Flores returned home. The images were stark and disturbing: In one dream, a dying Iraqi man desperately grabbed her arm. In another, she was lost in a blinding sandstorm.
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âGreat World of Soundâ observes a sadder, tawdrier side of the self-deluding dream of fame.
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Film director Woody Allen, it seems, has joined the George Bush-bashing brigade.
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Daniel McGinnâs âHouse Lust: Americaâs Obsession With Our Homes,â raises several provocative questions that strike at the covetous soul of Americaâs culture.
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ÂHeroesÂ acts out the fantasy that supernatural forces can improve life. ÂRunawayÂ has a bleaker message: One little mistake can really mess it up.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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âChildren of Men,â the superbly directed political thriller by Alfonso CuarÃ³n, may be something of a bummer, but itâs the kind of glorious bummer that lifts you to the rafters.
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At last, a love story for adults. In 'Closer,' Mike Nichols explores the thrilling and damaging effects of passion
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The events recounted in the World War II drama âMiriamâ are horrific, and the story behind it is moving. Unfortunately, the finished product feels like exploitation.
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Everyone has revenge fantasies now and then. Writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes' "Mean Creek" offers a decent lesson about the dangers of acting on those impulses.
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This stage version of Kurt Vonnegutâs antiwar 1969 masterpiece faithfully retains the novelâs pivotal moments. But woe to the spectator unfamiliar with the material.
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Characters smoke in nearly ever scene of Woody Allenâs latest film, but it was given a PG-13 rating. Where has Hollywoodâs get-tough stance on cigarettes gone?
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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."