Movie Review | 'Passione'

Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy

By A. O. SCOTT

“Passione” is a documentary in which John Turturro explores the sounds and singers of Naples, Italy.

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Movie Review | 'If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front'

Crimes Against Property, as Protests

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” looks at an environmental group that, in 2001, the F.B.I. declared was the country’s “No. 1 domestic terrorist threat.”

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Movie Review | 'The High LIfe'

Captive to Politics and Radical Poetry

By MIKE HALE

“The High Life,” a drama by the documentarian Zhao Dayong, is the story of a scam artist that turns into a political metaphor.

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David Rayfiel, Screenwriter With Sydney Pollack, Dies at 87

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Rayfiel collaborated with Mr. Pollack and Robert Redford on many of their most successful films, including “Three Days of the Condor” and “Out of Africa.”

As 3-D Falls From Favor, Director of ‘Transformers’ Tries to Promote It

By BROOKS BARNES

Michael Bay, the king of the summer movie spectacle, is on a campaign to convince moviegoers that his latest “Transformers” film is worth an extra $3 to $5 a ticket to see it in 3-D.

Sometimes a Vegetable Is Just a Vegetable

By A. O. SCOTT and MANOHLA DARGIS

The debate over movies that may be “nutritious” but not always tasty is joined by a writer and The Times’s chief film critics.

Big Movies Coming in Short Packages

By JOHN ANDERSON

At the Palm Springs International ShortFest viewers can see work by filmmakers with predictable professional backgrounds — and from those with very uncommon résumés.

Global Auto Racing and Spy Chasing

By MEKADO MURPHY

World cities are presented with digital flourishes in Pixar Animation’s “Cars 2.”

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