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The seriously black comedy Police, Adjective at Miami Beach Cinematheque this weekend only

Today, when you pick up a fresh copy of this week’s New Times, take note: There’s a little gift nestled inside. It’s the official program for the 2010 Miami International Film Festival. (General admission tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. this morning.) But before you rip it out, run…

Scorsese’s Shutter Island is the good kind of insane

The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke’s best film

Valentine’s Day has too many stars and too many story lines

From Paris With Love: Cowboy diplomacy from John Travolta

Crazy Heart is a rarity: a well-done, adult American movie

Mel Gibson gets revenge in vigilante flick Edge of Darkness

Endgame, about the covert negotiations in the ’80s that helped bring down apartheid, follows Michael Young (Jonny Lee Miller), a public affairs director for a British gold-mining firm. Miller secretly assembles talks between African National Congress representatives led by Thabo Mbeki (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and powerful Afrikaners like philosophy prof Will…

For better or worse, there isn’t a human experience that French director André Téchiné can resist lathering into a tone poem. Tackling a 2004 incident whose sociopolitical ramifications can hardly be ignored — a young Gentile woman set off a media storm by falsely claiming to be the victim of…

Harrison Ford talks about his new movie, Extraordinary Measures

Peter Jackson makes a one-dimensional Lovely Bones

Reunited with Charles McKeown, his co-writer from Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam has created another ultimate postmodern adventure crammed to a fault with big ideas and bigger images that mutate a grungy contemporary London into a living Heaven and Hell. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is…

The Book of Eli‘s postapocalyptic theology is a little warped

Ethan Hawke vampire flick Daybreakers squanders its actors

Leap Year bears no luck for Amy Adams

Sherlock Holmes

Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces is twice as fun as it ought to be

Blockbuster Video’s dismal decade

Did You Hear About the Morgans?: Now playing

It’s Complicated: Nancy Meyers can’t keep making the same movie over and over again

Avatar glitters, but it isn’t gold