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4 movie review: Long night’s journey into … where exactly? In his feature film debut, Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky dares audiences to keep watching his meandering, fragmented, relentlessly bleak tale…
Fahrenheit 9/11 movie: In one of the posters for Michael Moore’s 2004 blockbuster documentary, the invariably contentious filmmaker is seen holding hands with U.S. President George W. Bush, a key…