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Byline: COMPILED BY ROBERT BENZIKER OPENING THIS WEEK (3.5 chiles) BAMAKO Ostensibly about a trial whose plaintiffs are ordinary Africans and whose defendants are industrialized nations responsible for lending money [...]

Byline: COMPILED BY ROBERT BENZIKER OPENING THIS WEEK (2 Chiles) ANGEL-A Andre (Jamel Debbouze) is a loser, with debts he can't pay. He decides to jump off the Pont Neuf, [...]

OPENING THIS WEEK HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX With Harry Potter's adventures in literature about to come to a close (the final book is due out July [...]

OPENING THIS WEEK EVENING Based on a novel by Susan Minot, this film features real-life mother-daughter duos Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson, and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer. They play [...]

Byline: COMPILED BY ROBERT BENZIKER OPENING THIS WEEK DAY WATCH All 30 people in the U.S. who understood what was going on in the 2004 Russian horror film Night Watch [...]

Byline: COMPILED BY ROBERT BENZIKER OPENING THIS WEEK (3.5 chiles) AIR GUITAR NATION Winner of an audience award at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival, this mock rockumentary [...]

OPENING THIS WEEK BLACK GOLD The 'black gold' of the title refers not to the dirty oil industry, but to the dirty coffee industry. Big coffee may not be as [...]

Byline: COMPILED BY ROBERT BENZIKER OPENING THIS WEEK DREAM OF LIGHT This 1992 picture by Victor Erice (Spirit of the Beehive) explores the artistic process in intensive, meditative detail. Erice [...]

Byline: COMPILED BY ROBERT BENZIKER OPENING THIS WEEK (4 chiles) ACE IN THE HOLE Down-on-hisluck newspaper journalist Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas at his most cynical) is reduced to working for [...]

Byline: COMPILED BY ROBERT BENZIKER OPENING THIS WEEK AWAY FROM HER Talented indie actress Sarah Polley turns her attention to writing and directing in this adaptation of an Alice Munro [...]