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— Sigourney Weaver, Alien Resurrection

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Betty Blue

There can be beauty in tragedy, particularly when the key ingredient is the same in both —Marty Mapes (review...)

Betty arrives like a bolt from the Blue

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John Hawkes

  • Low Down (2014)

    Fanning and Hawkes live Low Down Review by Robert Denerstein: Music, heroin, and fatherhood on the fringe

  • Lincoln (2012)

    Day-Lewis portrays Lincoln Review by Marty Mapes: When Spielberg humanizes, it works, and when he mythologizes, it doesn't

    Review by Robert Denerstein: Though impressively thorough, Lincoln sometimes loses its way

    Review by Matt Anderson: Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a tour de force performance as Abraham Lincoln.

  • The Sessions (2012)

    Hawkes looks forward to The Sessions Review by Marty Mapes: Survival isn't enough. Acceptance isn't enough. Mark needs fulfillment.

    Review by Robert Denerstein: Sex & a very singular man

  • Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

    Review by Robert Denerstein: A study in tension, dread and carefully built anxiety

  • Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)

    Hawkes and July and Everyone They Know Review by Nick Reed: Mesmerizing, gorgeous, emotional, funny and never slow