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Do you hear that snapping sound Pixar? It’s films like How to Train Your Dragon nipping at your heels. The latest animated entry from Dreamworks is a lavish, thrilling, emotionally resonant film that, when combined with last [...]

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How seriously are we supposed to take Hot Tub Time Machine? Well let’s see. It’s a movie about a time machine. In a hot tub. That really should tell you everything you need to know. Beyond that, [...]

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Mother, South Korea’s official Best Foreign Language Film submission to the 2010 Academy Awards, is simple and understated, yet brazenly confident and assured. It is lyrical and melodic even during scenes of gut-twisting apprehension and violence. Like a mosaic made from tiny, seemingly unrelated fragments that form a discernable image only when joined together, Mother [...]

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On the surface, Chloe looks like the sort of polished, art-house eroticism Bernardo Bertolucci used to peddle. Soon, however, we discover Chloe is more of a lesbian Fatal Attraction than a Last Tango in Paris, a tawdry, [...]

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Repo Men is not a perfect film by any stretch of the imagination. But it never fails to be an interesting and engaging one. Off-putting and ridiculous one moment, highly satirical and frenzied the next, Repo Men [...]

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Though a period piece set in a small, pre-World War I German township, The White Ribbon throbs with a spectral connection to a 1960 science-fiction film that, were I to name it, would surely ruin this film’s [...]

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It is not hubris or hyperbole to say that Hubble 3D has to be seen to be believed. In its scant 43 minutes, the film reveals some of the most astonishing images your eyes will ever see. And every single one of them is real.

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You know what I’m talking about. We’ve all seen it. You’re walking through the mall when a couple passes you. He is average, possessing no traits one would even remotely identify as handsome. But she is mind-bogglingly [...]

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It turns out Robert Pattinson sparkles after all. Known around the world by millions of teenaged girls as the heartthrob vampire from the Twilight franchise, Pattinson proves in Remember Me that adults should take him seriously too. [...]

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