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“You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” attempts to satirize the continuing tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors, one of the least funny topics of modern times.
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The predictably cranky and impatient press audience offered little love to Philippe Garrel’s “Frontier of Dawn” at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.
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“You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” attempts to satirize the continuing tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors, one of the least funny topics of modern times.
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Derek Jarman, indie pioneer, iconoclast and the subject of a new documentary and DVD set, is ripe for reappraisal, years after his death.
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The Japanese obsession with cavorting ninjas and cunning hardware reaches some kind of climax with “The Machine Girl.”
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Infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max, “Postal” explodes with bad attitude and lousy filmmaking.
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“The Children of Huang Shi” is a Hollywood weepie snuggled inside a humanitarian tribute.
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The zany, nihilistic “War, Inc.” is gonzo moviemaking with a bleeding heart.
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At Cannes, the expectations surrounding “Che,” Steven Soderbergh’s biopic of Ernesto Guevara, could hardly have been higher.
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