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Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female
From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.
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Days of Heaven
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I'm Not There
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The Hunting Party
The sidetracking -- the lapses into corruption, black humor, and sarcasm -- all this is to be expected when your life is on the line so incessantly.
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The Hoax (2006)
Even as The Hoax works to wring emotional consequence from its many layers of lies, you're hard-pressed to believe it.
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Bee Season (2005)
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Bee Season (2005)
Words are mystical, magical, and wholly material in Bee Season.
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