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MOVIE REVIEW | ‘ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT’

The Trick an Animal Cannot Learn: How to Be Wild Again

Flora and David Balding in “One Lucky Elephant,” a documentary about a relationship.
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Flora and David Balding in “One Lucky Elephant,” a documentary about a relationship.
A man and his elephant, their long relationship and their bittersweet parting form the center of this documentary.
Jani Raappanen in the documentary “Reindeerspotting: Escape From Santaland.”
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Jani Raappanen in the documentary “Reindeerspotting: Escape From Santaland.”
Joonas Neuvonen’s documentary, “Reindeerspotting: Escape From Santaland,” tracks a group of addicts in Finland and what they do to feed their habit.
President Obama meeting with students from the documentary
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President Obama meeting with students from the documentary "Waiting for Superman" last October.
Participant Media, the film industry’s most visible attempt at social entrepreneurship, turned seven this year, and its success has been uneven.
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Michelle Williams and Shirley Henderson in Kelly Reichardt's “Meek's Cutoff.”

In Defense of the Slow and the Boring

The Times’s chief film critics discuss the lingering bias against movies that aspire to more than entertainment.
Jordana Beatty as the title third grader in “Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer,” based on the popular tween book series.

Girls of a Certain Age Challenge Hollywood

“Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer” hopes to achieve box-office success with the tween market.
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First Place for ‘X-Men: First Class’

The latest installment of this comic-book adventure has brought new life to a sagging film franchise.
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Marlene Dietrich plays an artist's muse in Rouben Mamoulian's “Song of Songs” (1933), part of a new two-film set on DVD.

Chopin, Schubert and Dietrich (the Latter Nude)

Marlene Dietrich had a break from her collaborations with Josef von Sternberg to star in Rouben Mamoulian’s “Song of Songs” (1933), new on DVD.
Doug Walker preparing for

Online Video Start-Ups Seek to Carve Out a Place Beside YouTube

“People may still scoff at online video, but this is a real business now,” said Mike Michaud, co-owner of Channel Awesome.
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MOVIE REVIEW | 'X-MEN: FIRST CLASS'
From left, Michael Fassbender, Caleb Landry Jones, James McAvoy, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence and Lucas Till in

Born That Way, and Proud of It

This latest installment of the “X-Men” series reaches back to the early 1960s for an origin story of mutants.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'BEGINNERS'
Christopher Plummer, left, is a father preoccupying the memories of his son, played by Ewan McGregor, right, in “Beginners.”

Remembering When Dad Came Out

Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor star in “Beginners,” a wistful memory piece about a straight son and his dying gay father.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'FILM SOCIALISME'
Jean-Marc Stehlé as Otto Goldberg in “Film Socialisme,” a 2010 film in three chapters directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

On a Mediterranean Cruise Ship Steered by a Godardian Crew

“Film Socialisme,” Jean-Luc Godard’s latest work to arrive in America, is an assemblage of vignettes, allusions and tracts, by turns provocative, grating, gorgeous and tiresome.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'REJOICE AND SHOUT'
Mavis Staples in a documentary history of black gospel music.

The Power of Voices Lifted in Song

“Rejoice and Shout,” a historical survey of African-American gospel music, illustrates how it evolved out of the fusion of plantation work songs and Christian hymns.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'SUBMARINE'
Craig Roberts in “Submarine.”

Coming of Age, and Then to Terms

Richard Ayoade’s debut feature, “Submarine,” follows a Welsh schoolboy’s coming of age as he experiences first love, family trouble and stray encounters with the weirdness of the world.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'BEAUTIFUL BOY'
Maria Bello and Michael Sheen in

Alone to Face the Fallout From a Son’s Horrific Crime

A married couple’s bottled-up tensions are blasted open as they cope with their son’s shooting rampage and suicide.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'MR. NICE'
From left, Rhys Ifans and David Thewlis in

Reliving a Drug Dealer’s Halcyon Days

“Mr. Nice” reconstructs the life and high times of Howard Marks, a notorious Welsh drug dealer who went by the alias Donald Nice.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE LAST MOUNTAIN'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in “The Last Mountain,” Bill Haney's documentary about coal mining.

An Environmental Horror Story

In “The Last Mountain,” Bill Haney looks at the fight over mountaintop removal to mine coal in West Virginia.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'TURKEY BOWL'
From left, Adam Benic, Kerry Bishé, Bob Turton, Jon Schmidt and Sergio Villarreal in

Friends, Football and Fun

“Turkey Bowl,” a quirky offering from Kyle Smith, is little more than a touch football game among friends.
MOVIE REVIEW | '!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION'

Enhancing the Image of Feminist Art

A documentary makes the case that the feminist art movement has been more influential than is generally acknowledged.

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