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Released on November 7, 2007
Note By Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (2007)
“Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037” follows the painstaking yearlong process of building and fine-tuning a handmade nine-foot concert grand piano.
Rating: NR
Running Time: 81 Minutes
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Released on November 2, 2007
Darfur Now (2007)
In the absorbing absorbing documentary “Darfur Now,” progress inches along on several fronts.
Rating: PG (Adult Situations)
Running Time: 99 Minutes
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Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)
“The Future is Unwritten” is much more than a biography of the Clash’s guitarist and lead singer: It’s history, philosophy and politics, played fast and loud.
Rating: NR
Running Time: 124 Minutes
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American Gangster (2007)
Greatness hovers just outside “American Gangster,” knocking, angling to be let in.
Rating: R (Violence/Nudity/Not For Children/Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 157 Minutes
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Fat Girls (2007)
“Fat Girls” doesn’t know what it wants to be and ends up stranded between two concepts, either of which might have yielded a more satisfying film.
Rating: R (Adult Situations/Strong Sexual Content/Profanity/Drug Content)
Running Time: 82 Minutes
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The Genius Club (2007)
Rating: PG (Adult Situations)
Running Time: 119 Minutes
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Bee Movie (2007)
The most genuinely apian aspect of “Bee Movie” is that it spends a lot of its running time buzzing happily around, sniffing out fresh jokes wherever they may bloom.
Rating: PG (Adult Humor)
Running Time: 90 Minutes
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Martian Child (2007)
There’s nothing wrong with the setup of “Martian Child,” but there’s little right about the delivery.
Rating: PG (Adult Situations)
Running Time: 106 Minutes
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Released on October 26, 2007
Lynch (2007)
Whether you dig “Lynch,” a feature-length video visit with the director David Lynch, will largely depend on your views of his work.
Rating: NR
Running Time: 82 Minutes
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Mr. Untouchable (2007)
The flashy documentary “Mr. Untouchable” looks at the life of Nicky Barnes, once one of the most powerful drug dealers in Harlem.
Rating: R (Violence/Brief Nudity/Profanity/Drug Content)
Running Time: 92 Minutes
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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)
As the loving documentary, “Pete Seeger: The Power of Song,” makes clear, Pete Seeger is still busy, still angry, still hopeful, still singing.
Rating: PG
Running Time: 91 Minutes
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Music Within (2007)
A bad movie with a good heart, “Music Within” is a biography of Richard Pimentel (Ron Livingston), an activist for the handicapped.
Rating: R (Adult Situations/Profanity/Drug Content)
Running Time: 93 Minutes
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Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (2007)
Jimmy Carter isn’t a real saint, but he plays one in “Jimmy Carter Man From Plains.”
Rating: PG (Adult Situations/Adult Language)
Running Time: 126 Minutes
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Saw IV (2007)
"Saw IV” is bloody proof that Jigsaw may be dead, but his well of corporeal abuses has yet to run dry.
Rating: R (Profanity/Gore)
Running Time: 92 Minutes
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
“Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” is a chronicle of destruction — physical, spiritual and moral.
Rating: R (Violence/Nudity/Adult Situations/Strong Sexual Content/Not For Children/Profanity/Drug Content)
Running Time: 116 Minutes
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Aaja Nachle (2007)
In “Aaja,” Madhuri Dixit, India’s biggest female star of the 1990s, reminds us that whatever “it” is, she’s still got it.
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Rating: NR
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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
The second “Aliens vs. Predator” film is, like its predecessor, one very dark movie. Not psychologically dark; dark dark, as in not very generously lighted.
Release Date: December 25, 2007
Rating: R (Violence/Profanity/Gore)
Running Time: 94 Minutes
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Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)
Hollywood continues its tired milking of old television properties with “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” a slick updating of the musical-cartoon franchise.
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Rating: PG
Running Time: 92 Minutes
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American Gangster (2007)
Greatness hovers just outside “American Gangster,” knocking, angling to be let in.
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Rating: R (Violence/Nudity/Not For Children/Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 157 Minutes
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Atonement (2007)
“Atonement” is an almost classical example of how pointless, how diminishing, the transmutation of literature into film can be.
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Rating: R (Nudity/Adult Situations/Rape & Sexual Abuse/Not For Children/Profanity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 123 Minutes
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August Rush (2007)
To describe “August Rush” as a piece of shameless hokum doesn’t quite do justice to the potentially shock-inducing sugar content of this contemporary fairy tale.
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Rating: PG (Mild Violence/Adult Situations/Adult Language)
Running Time: 113 Minutes
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Awake (2007)
If you are one of those who viewed Hayden Christensen's portrayal of Anakin Skywalker as the ne plus ultra of lifelessness, prepare to be proven wrong with "Awake."
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Rating: R (Adult Situations/Profanity/Drug Content)
Running Time: 100 Minutes
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Badland (2007)
The mawkish yet weirdly mesmerizing film “Badland” is independent in scale but aggressively Hollywood in storytelling.
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Rating: R (Violence/Profanity)
Running Time: 165 Minutes
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Beaufort (2008)
“Beaufort” may be, strictly speaking, a war movie, but for long stretches it feels more like science fiction.
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Rating: NR (Violence)
Running Time: 131 Minutes
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
“Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” is a chronicle of destruction — physical, spiritual and moral.
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Rating: R (Violence/Nudity/Adult Situations/Strong Sexual Content/Not For Children/Profanity/Drug Content)
Running Time: 116 Minutes
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Bella (2007)
“Bella” is a movie that wears its bleeding heart on its sleeve and loves its characters to distraction.
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 91 Minutes
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Beowulf (2007)
You don’t need to wait for Angelina Jolie to rise from the vaporous depths naked to know that this “Beowulf” isn’t your high school teacher’s Old English epic poem.
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Rating: PG-13 (Violence/Nudity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 114 Minutes
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Billy the Kid (2007)
The documentary “Billy the Kid” presents the world according to a troubled teenager in Maine.
Release Date: December 5, 2007
Rating: NR
Running Time: 84 Minutes
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Canvas (2007)
“Canvas” is a movie that rings emotionally true, despite structural contrivances and dim, washed-out color.
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 100 Minutes
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Cassandra's Dream (2008)
“Cassandra’s Dream,” Woody Allen’s latest excursion to the dark side of human nature, is good enough that you may wonder why he doesn’t just stop making comedies once and for all.
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Rating: PG-13 (Mild Violence/Adult Situations/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 105 Minutes
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Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
“Charlie Wilson’s War” may be more of a hoot than any picture dealing with the bloody, protracted fight between the Soviet Army and the Afghan mujahedeen has any right to be.
Release Date: December 21, 2007
Rating: R (Violence/Adult Situations/Adult Humor/Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 97 Minutes
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Chronicle of an Escape (2007)
It is a small relief to discover that “Chronicle of an Escape” is relatively restrained in its depiction of torture. Despite its restraint, the movie is deeply unsettling.
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Rating: R
Running Time: 104 Minutes
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Cloverfield (2008)
“Cloverfield” is nominally a monster movie, but mostly it’s a feature-length gimmick.
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Rating: PG-13 (Violence)
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Cocalero (2007)
“Cocalero,” Alejandro Landes’s documentary about the presidential campaign of Evo Morales in Bolivia, seems to mirror the campaign itself: ragged and bare-bones.
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Rating: NR (Adult Situations/Questionable for Children/Drug Content)
Running Time: 94 Minutes
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Control (2007)
Where “Control” might have been literal-minded and sentimental, it is instead enigmatic and moving, much in the manner of Joy Division’s best songs.
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Rating: R (Profanity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 121 Minutes
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