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Rating
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Comment
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Crazy Heart
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***1/2
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Bridges is on the money as a washed up
country star.
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The Kids Are Alright
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***1/2
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Heartfelt melodrama ruled by Benning.
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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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Toy Story 3
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***1/2
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The third time is a total charm.
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White Ribbon
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***1/2
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Funny Games’s Hanke tackles pre-WWI Germany in austere B&W.
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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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The Crazies
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***
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A Romero remake by a Disney exec’s kid
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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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Diner With Schmucks
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***
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A bit over the top, but has extreme
moments of hilarity.
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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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Kick Ass
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***
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It almost does, almost does.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to Train Your Dragon
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**1/2
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Avatar in Viking days.
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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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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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Mother
and Child
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**1/2
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Dark drama turns into a soap opera.
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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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Robin Hood
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**1/2
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The prequel.
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Spliced
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**1/2
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Frankenstein meets Alien via a seductive succubi.
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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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The Tilman
Story
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**1/2
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The docu about
the cover up doesn’t shed much light.
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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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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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Grown Ups
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**
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Sandler and his SNL buds do the Big Chilll.
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Jonah Hex
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**
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Comic book western lacks bite.
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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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Splice
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**
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Species meets Frankenstein.
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The Book of Eli
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**
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Why Denzel, why?
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Killers
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*1/2
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00 nothing.
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