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All Your Dead Ones
Colombia, 2011, 88 min.
A suspenseful social thriller in which a Colombian farmer finds a pile of dead bodies in his cornfield. When no one wants to go to the trouble of conducting a serious investigation, his predicament becomes increasingly absurd.... more
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A Thousand Cuts
USA, 2012, 85 min.
A successful horror film director is treated to some of his own medicine when he’s held captive in his own home by a man whose daughter was killed in a copycat crime inspired by the director’s work.... more
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Beast
Denmark, 2011, 83 min.
An obsessive, destructive love transforms a caring husband into a bloodthirsty beast in this perversely fascinating psychodrama. Beast boasts sharp dialogue, strong performances, plenty of tense and troubling moments and atmosphere in spades.Contains scenes of disturbing violence. ... more
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Bullhead
Belgium, 2011, 124 min.
As astoundingly muscular in style as it is in subject, this assured debut drama is anchored by a mesmerizing performance from Matthias Schoenaerts as a steroid-addicted Belgian cattle farmer tangled up in the illegal trade in growth-hormone-laced beef.... more
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Eliminate: Archie Cookson
United Kingdom, 2011, 91 min.
This dry-as-Melba Toast, droll British meta-thriller is a wry delight, boasting a fabulously spot-on performance from British character actor Rhys as a washed up spy who comes into possession of a life-threatening secret, and is granted 48 hours to put his house in order.... more
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Brazil, 2010, 115 min.
A top cop’s spectacular war on Rio drug gangs uncovers a web of corruption. The highest-grossing Brazilian film ever, this sequel to Padilha’s 2007 hit offers the heart-pounding adrenalin rush of the best action films without sacrificing complexity and realism.... more
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The Forgiveness of Blood
Albania, 2011, 109 min.
Tradition and modernity collide in this inexorable drama filmed in Albania from the director of Maria Full of Grace. A blood feud forces teenager Nik to remain hidden in the family home—something a young man experiencing first love finds impossible to do.... more
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Headhunters
Norway, 2011, 100 min.
A stylish, pacy and sometimes blackly funny adaptation of Jo Nesbo's bestselling Norwegian thriller. When a successful headhunter with a duplicitous life as a con artist seizes on agreat opportunity, nothing goes quite according to plan. ... more
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Innocence
Czech Republic, 2011, 101 min.
When a respected physician is accused of sexually assaulting a teenaged patient, his once-enviable professional and personal lives are plunged into chaos. More than just a guilty pleasure, this is an unsettling and propulsive thriller from the director of Divided We Fall.... more
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Michael
Austria, 2011, 96 min.
Illustrating the banality of evil in an impressively controlled and sometimes darkly humorous fashion, Michael follows a thirtyish pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement. Creepy, suspenseful and provocative. ... more
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The Monk
France, 2011, 101 min.
A splendid 17th-century gothic period piece featuring Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) as a devoted monk whose piety is destroyed when a woman infiltrates his monastery, a minion from Satan disguised as a man. ... more
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Pig
USA, 2011, 90 min.
A man wakes up alone in the desert with a hood over his head, no memory to speak of, and a piece of paper in his pocket bearing the name Manny Elder. So begins this tantalizing scifi thriller, a brain-teaser in the Memento mold.... more
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The Squad
Colombia, 2011, 90 min.
When a commando squad reaches an outpost in the mountains of Colombia they find signs of a bloody massacre and evidence of witchcraft. As violence and confusion mount, the men fear a supernatural force is at work.... more
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Thin Ice
USA, 2011, 114 min.
Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, and Billy Crudup are all superb in Sprecher’s ingeniously structured film noir-slash-black comedy, about a sleazy insurance salesman (Kinnear) and the scam he runs to acquire a $25,000 violin from a lonely Midwest farmer (Arkin).... more
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The Woman in the Fifth
United Kingdom, 2011, 84 min.
Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas star in this mind-bending psychological thriller about an American writer in Paris to reconnect with his daughter, whose grip on reality loosens in part due to the influence of Scott Thomas’s mysterious femme fatale.... more
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Wreckers
United Kingdom, 2011, 86 min.
Urbanites David and Dawn (rising stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy) move to the pastoral village of David’s youth, only to have the arrival of David’s soldier/brother Nick—and his revelations about family secrets—threaten their idyll. A taut, compelling drama.... more
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