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As London’s greatest Desdemona, Billy Crudup gets in touch with his masculine side (and finds true love) in the gender-bending Stage Beauty.

David O. Russell’s star-studded comedy about �existential detectives� is strictly for the McSweeney’s set. Plus: In Going Upriver, a polite Kerry.

Gael García Bernal’s South American road trip turns him into the revolutionary of everyone’s dreams. Plus: A Dirty Shame is a misnomer.

Dubya gets a noir makeover in John Sayles’s Silver City, but the movie can’t compete with the reality-show drama of the campaign itself.

Criminal rejuvenates the scam-artist genre with a tale of two low-level hustlers from different sides of L.A. Red Lights is a sinister French fantasia.

Ross McElwee reflects on his family’s tobacco-growing past�and its fleeting future�in the raw and lovely documentary Bright Leaves.

Evelyn Waugh’s classic satire of soirées and scandals is luridly familiar (if a bit overwrought) in Stephen Fry’s adaptation, Bright Young Things.

Two couples struggle through a bitter cycle of anger, adultery, revenge, and friendship in We Don’t Live Here Anymore.

For once, Tom Cruise plays the bad guy�a coolly domineering hit man on an all-night killing spree in Michael Mann’s intense Collateral.

In a bohemian twist on family, two men and a kooky ex-hippie attempt an unusual and affecting ménage à trois. Plus, Spike Lee does his worst.