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Check out our new capsule reviews of Bel Ami, a period drama pairing Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattison with Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci, and Kristin Scott Thomas; The Cat Returns, a 2002 fantasy from the Japanese animation outfit Studio Ghibli; Dark Horse, the latest from Happiness director Todd Solondz; Kill Daddy Goodnight, an Austrian drama that follows three families across several generations; Natural Selection, an indie comedy about a Texas woman who sets off in search of her husband's long-lost son; Payback, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth; Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley as two people finding each other as an asteroid approaches the earth; and The Woman in the Fifth, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love) and starring Ethan Hawke as a novelist who moves to Paris so he can reestablish ties with his estranged daughter.
Best bets for repertory: Julien Temple's rarely screened Earth Girls Are Easy (1989), Saturday at Doc Films; Dennis Hopper's frequently screened Easy Rider (1969), tonight at Doc; Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987), screening by DVD projection on Saturday at Pritzker Military Library; Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz (1978), midnight Friday and Saturday at Landmark's Century Centre; John Ford's The Searchers (1956), Wednesday at Century 12 and CineArts 6; and Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), Saturday and Sunday morning at Music Box.
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