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All Good Things
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***1/2
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Thrilling take on a potential sociopath.
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The Black Swan
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***1/2
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The Fly meets All About Eve, meets
Mulholland Drive.
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Boxing Gym
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***1/2
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Wiiseman’s
docu about a dingy gym is hypnotic.
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The Duel
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***1/2
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Gripping Checkov
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The Fighter
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***1/2
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Great performances in this real life
tale of redemption and blood.
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I Am Love
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***1/2
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Food, moody Italians and Tilda Swinton.
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The Illusionist
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***1/2
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Neat animated take on Jacques Tahti.
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Mawencol
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***1/2
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Docu
on GI dolls as a form of rehab
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Micmacs
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***1/2
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Another quirky gem from the director of Amelie.
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Mother
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***1/2
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A deep and bloody matronly bond from the
director of The Host.
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Restrepo
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***1/2
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Haunting docu
about a platoon in Afghanistan
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The Social Network
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***1/2
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Fincher makes coding and courtroom drama
gripping.
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Sweetgrass
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***1/2
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Brokeback Mountain without the same sex sex
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Toy Story 3
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***1/2
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The third time is a total charm.
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Red Ridding Trilogy
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***1/2
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Great Brit crime-drama—5 hrs long
though.
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Wasteland
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***1/2
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Art and redemption in the junkyards of Rio.
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White Material
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***1/2
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Claire Denis tackles modern day
imperialism.
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The American
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***
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Somber thinking man’s thriller that
lacks a few nuts.
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Another Year
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***
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Award worthy performances in this seasonal
melodrama from Mike Leigh.
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An Unfinished Film
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***
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Intriguing revisit of archival Holocaust
footage from the Nazis.
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Blue Valentine
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***
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Williams and Gosling shine.
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Casino Jack
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***
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Illuminating Abramoff docu.
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Catfish
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***
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Real life Crazies on Facebook.
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Client Number 9
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***
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The inside of Eliot Spitzer’s mind
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The Crazies
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***
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A Romero remake by a Disney exec’s kid
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Centurion
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***
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The director of The Descent
does swords and sandals.
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Company Men
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***
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Great cast in this recession out of work
drama.
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Conviction
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***
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Rockwell plays a convicted killer who gets
a new lease through DNA testing.
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Despicable Me
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***
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The Grinch who adopted 3 lil gals.
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Enter the Void
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***
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Sex, drugs and no rock n roll in Tokyo
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Fair Game
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***
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Watts and Penn are great as Plame and Wilson
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Get Him to the Greek
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***
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Spinal Tap by Apatow.
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Harry Potter: Hallows 1
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***
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The best one since Prisoner of Azkaban
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Howl
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***
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Franco is quite good as Ginsburg
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I Love You Phillip Morris
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***
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Gays who rule a prison,
and it’s true.
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Inception
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***
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Nolan goes back into the mind with
another nonlinear narrative.
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The Inside Job
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***
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How we got hosed on the economy
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Joan Rivers: Work
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***
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Funny woman docu
is a rare peek inside a psyche.
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The Kids Are Alright
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***
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Heartfelt melodrama ruled by Benning.
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Kick Ass
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***
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It almost does, almost does.
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The King’s Speech
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***
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Glorious acting by Firth and Rush.
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Let Me In
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***
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Creepy Swedish vampire flick goes
American.
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Life During Wartime
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***
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Haynes’s follow up to Happiness has the
same in your eye surpises.
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Machete
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***
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Pure Grindhouse
schlock.
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Money Never Sleeps
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***
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Wall Street Part 2.
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Never Let Me Go
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***
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Organ harvesting clones of the future.
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127 Hours
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***
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Boyle does despair in the desert.
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The Tilman
Story
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***
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The docu about
the cover up doesn’t shed much light.
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The Perfect
Game
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***
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Real life Davids tackle Goliaths and racism.
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Please Give
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***
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Love and dysfunction in New York. Peet gives her best performance to date.
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Predators
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***
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Nice looking extenuation of the series,
few surprises.
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Rabbit Hole
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***
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Hell in the tidy homestead.
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Shutter Island
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***
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Great build up, but it can’t finish.
Leonardo works pretty hard.
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The Square
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***
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Aussie pulp noir.
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The Town
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***
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Ben does a working class Departed.
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True Grit
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***
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Remake has Grit.
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Unstoppable
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***
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The simple plot works effusively.
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Waiting
for Superman
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***
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Damming douc
on the state of the schools in the US
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Winter’s Bone
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***
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Down and out in the Ozarks.
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Youth in Revolt
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***
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More Juno-esque
romantic ennui from Cera.
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Alice in Wonderland
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**1/2
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Another freaky take of a family classic
by Mr. Tim and Mr. Depp.
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Date Night
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**1/2
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Carell
and Fey do the married version off After Hours.
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Biutiful
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**1/2
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Cancer dad deals drugs and tries to save
people.
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Brooklyn’s Finest
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**1/2
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Training Day times 3 (stories), but the
edge never cuts.
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Cyrus
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**1/2
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Dark, but there is no turn of the screw.
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Daybreakers
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**1/2
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Vamps take over the world and have no
food supply.
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Diner With Schmucks
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**1/2
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A bit over the top, but has extreme
moments of hilarity.
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Due Date
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**1/2
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The Hangover 2
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Eclipse
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**1/2
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Great performances in this ‘ghost’
story.
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Expendables
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**1/2
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Sly and the guys have fun, but do we?
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Extraordinary
Measures
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**1/2
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Real life cure story does more than just
warms.
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Get Low
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**1/2
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Quirky backwoods Tom Sawyer funeral is a
bit overwrought.
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Greenberg
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**1/2
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Baumbach
can’t match The Squid and the Whale.
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Guardians
of the Legend
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**1/2
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Owls do battle, great animation.
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Good, Bad and Weird
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**1/2
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Korean spin on Leone’s classic.
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Harry Brown
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**1/2
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Caine
is The Equalizer.
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Hereafter
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**1/2
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Clint tackled psychics and the dead
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Hot
Tub Time Machine
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**1/2
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Back to the 80’s via a Jacuzzi.
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How Do You Know
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**1/2
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James Brooks does the misguided romance
thing again.
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How to Train Your Dragon
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**1/2
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Avatar in Viking days.
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Jack Goes Boating
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**1/2
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Hoffman directs this play adaptation.
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The Last Song
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**1/2
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Sparks and Miley
make maudlin music.
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Legendary
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**1/2
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Yes, John Cena
and Patricia Clarkson on the same screen.
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Little Fockers
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**1/2
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Funnier than Meet the Fockers, but is it done yet?
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Love and Other Drugs
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**1/2
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Hathaway and Viagra.
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Made in
Dagenham
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**1/2
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The British Norma Rae.
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Megamind
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**1/2
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Despicable Me Part 2
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Mother
and Child
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**1/2
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Dark drama turns into a soap opera.
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Nanny
McPhee Returns
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**1/2
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Mono-brow momma is back.
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Oceans
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**1/2
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Disney dumbs
down nature for Earth Day (again).
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The Other Guys
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**1/2
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Ninny op comedy nonsense that works more
than it should.
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Robin Hood
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**1/2
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The prequel.
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Stone
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**1/2
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Character piece feels like a dare
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Survival of the Dead
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**1/2
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Learning to live with zombies.
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Takers
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**1/2
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Crime drama in search of a script.
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The Tempest
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**1/2
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Miren
anchors as Prospero.
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The
Tourist
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**1/2
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Silly spy noir with glam stars.
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Tron
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**1/2
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A visual wonder, though the story could
have used some beef.
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When
You’re Strange
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**1/2
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Door docu
offers no new insights.
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Alpha
and Omega
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**
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A real animated howl.
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Cats
and Dogs 2
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**
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007 Bowser.
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Clash of the Titans
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**
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Give me Harry Hamlin and the gilded
cuckoo.
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Easy A
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**
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Stone is great, but the film not so.
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Eclipse
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**
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The thrill gets tired fast.
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Grown Ups
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**
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Sandler and his SNL buds do the Big
Chill.
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Jonah Hex
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**
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Comic book western lacks bite.
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I’m Still Here
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**
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Self indulgent celeb BS docu
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Next Three Days
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**
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Stupid innocent spouse crime thriller
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Killer Inside Me
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**
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Jim Thompson derailed.
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Losers
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**
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Killer Elite and Predator walked this
line before and better.
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Repo Men
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**
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Organ retrieval in the future.
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Skyline
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**
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Cloverfield/War
of the Worlds rehash with a bad script and terrible acting
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Splice
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**
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Species meets Frankenstein.
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Step Up 3D
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**
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Opps
they did it again!
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The Book of Eli
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**
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Why Denzel, why?
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Saw 3D
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*1/2
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Let’s pray it’s the last one.
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Killers
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*1/2
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00 nothing.
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The
Warrior’s Way
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*1/2
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Kung Fu poo.
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