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MOVIE REVIEW | 'LIMITLESS' A Simple Prescription for Superior Powers By A. O. SCOTT An aspiring novelist finds a pharmaceutical cure for writer's block. But does he use this bounty to write more books? ·                                  Profile Article: Bradley Cooper |  Slide Show ·                                   Anatomy of a Scene: 'Limitless' ·                                  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review When Art Imitates an Actor's Troubled Life By MICHAEL CIEPLY At the South by Southwest Festival, Jodie Foster discusses making "The Beaver" and her choice of Mel Gibson as its lead actor. ·                                  SXSW Film Coverage MOVIE REVIEW | 'PAUL' Calm Down, People; He Comes in Peace By MANOHLA DARGIS An extraterrestrial and his human friends hit the road, seeing the best and worst America and its clich?s have to offer. ·                                   Interview: Greg Mottola ·                                  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'WIN WIN' Riding the Wave of Life's Indignities By A. O. SCOTT Paul Giamatti plays a struggling suburbanite facing the usual material and moral anxieties in "Win Win," Tom McCarthy's funny and warmhearted new film. ·                                   Interview: Tom McCarthy ·                                  Movie Overview | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE LINCOLN LAWYER' Operating on the Margins of Pay-to-Play Justice By MANOHLA DARGIS Matthew McConaughey plays a Los Angeles shyster in "The Lincoln Lawyer," adapted from Michael Connelly's crime novel. ·                                  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK' Capturing a 'Look at Me' Milieu With Impish Modesty By CARINA CHOCANO Richard Press's documentary "Bill Cunningham New York" follows that "On the Street" fashion photographer of The New York Times. ·                                  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT' Chile's Past Is Present in the Desert By STEPHEN HOLDEN "Nostalgia for the Light" is the director Patricio Guzm?n's cinematic essay on the search for both our cosmic origins and disappeared political prisoners. ·                                   Slide Show ·                                  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE GIFT TO STALIN' Story of a Jewish Boy By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS "The Gift to Stalin," set in the Kazakh steppe in 1949, tells the story of a Jewish boy who escaped death in a purge and is taken in by an aging railway worker. ·                                  Movie Overview | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'CRACKS' At Desolate Girls' School, Diving Teacher Rules Roost By STEPHEN HOLDEN "Cracks," a gothically moody girls' school drama adapted from a Sheila Kohler novel, verges on a horror film. ·                                  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'WINTER IN WARTIME' Teenager Encounters Adulthood and Nazis By STEPHEN HOLDEN Martin Koolhoven's "Winter in Wartime," set in a village in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, is an adaptation of a semiautobiographical 1972 novel by Jan Terlouw. ·                                  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review MORE REVIEWS Movie Review | 'Lord of the Dance 3D': Irish Feet Aflutter, Stepping Into an Extra Dimension Movie Review | 'Motherland': 'Motherland,' the Debut of Doris Yeung Movie Review | 'Desert Flower': 'Desert Flower' Tells Story of Waris Dirie Movie Review | '0s and 1s': '0s and 1s,' by Eugene Kotlyarenko Movie Review | 'Bereavement': 'Bereavement' by Stevan Mena Movie Review | 'The Music Never Stopped': 'The Music Never Stopped,' by Jim Kohlberg Movie Review | 'The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman': 'The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman' Movie Review | 'I Am': 'I Am' by the Director Tom Shadyac News & Features All That Logging in Makes Dropping Out Much More Difficult By MICHAEL CIEPLY South by Southwest, a music, film and interactive technology festival in Austin, Tex., is now exploring the downside of all the media-driven digitization it usually celebrates. Surveyor of a Desert Where the Past and Present Coexist By LARRY ROHTER The documentarian Patricio Guzm?n's new film, "Nostalgia for the Light," another of his looks at the Atacama Desert in Chile, opens on Friday. Netflix Is Said to Be Close to Acquiring a Television Show By BRIAN STELTER Obtaining the rights to an original television series would put Netflix in the ranks of networks like HBO or ABC. Video The Rules of the Game in a Feudal World By DAVE KEHR The four films in the DVD collection "Fernando Di Leo: The Italian Crime Collection" represent the mass-production side of 1970s Italian cinema. ADVERTISEMENT Get home delivery of The New York Times for as low as $3.15 a week.