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Thirst RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Horror drama. Directed by Park Chan Wook. With Song Kang Ho, Kim Ok Vin, Kim Hae Sook, Shin Ha Kyun. In Korean with English subtitles. (Rated R. 133 minutes. At the Bridge.) I'll stick out my neck and say that Park Chan Wook's...

The Answer Man RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Starring Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham. Directed by John Hindman. (R. 97 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) There's an elusive category of motion picture - the bad movie for an intelligent audience. Its dumber cousin, the...

Shrink RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Drama. Directed by Jonas Pate. Starring Kevin Spacey, Saffron Burrows and Robin Williams. (R. 104 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) I'm starting to wonder about pothead shrinks. I've never actually observed one in nature. Only at...

For the second time this summer, a young, brand-new director has emerged from out of nowhere to present a vision of where sci-fi can go from here. It first happened with IMoonI, the elegant and tightly sealed thinkpiece from Duncan Jones that operated far more with the head than with the heart. Now, from the complete opposite side, comes IDistrict 9I

Starring: Review: In Taiji, Japan, fishermen lure dolphins, about 23,000 a year, into a hidden cove and brutally harpoon them to sell their often-contaminated flesh as whale meat. Director Louie Psihoyos, aided by Richard O'Barry, a former dolphin trainer (he worked on the TV series Flipper), joins with other advocates (Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere included) to stop this barbaric slaughter of innocents (click here to watch Peter Travers' video review of The Cove). But first they have to risk jail to install hidden cameras and expose the atrocity to the world.