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The Kids Are All Right is an odd little film to find in the middle of an over-stimulated Hollywood summer. Heartfelt and funny, the film is like a cool shower on an oppressively hot day—refreshing and invigorating, [...]

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I’m not ashamed to say I love these sorts of movies—espionage thrillers jammed to the gills with hairsbreadth escapes, gladiatorial bouts and death-defying stunts. So it was disappointing when Salt turned out to be little more than [...]

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first film in the Millennium trilogy by the late, incandescently popular Swedish author Stieg Larsson, was a cross between the achingly forlorn films of Ingmar Bergman and another spine-chilling, suspenseful [...]

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Agora, extraordinarily ambitious and majestically cerebral, is a flawed film to be sure. Its reach—nothing short of celestial mechanics and the frequently violent intersection of science and religion—certainly exceeds its grasp. But the reach itself is worthy of praise. Religion is not alone in claiming martyrs; the secular has its fair share of fallen heroes [...]

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Do you remember how you first felt upon leaving the original The Matrix, that shell-shocked sense of having been given a heady glimpse into another fully formed world, that feeling of suddenly possessing dangerous and unearthly knowledge, [...]

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Don’t tell my wife, but I love being wrong. At least when it comes to films. I’ll admit it, I came to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice prepared to hate it. It had all the hallmarks of a film [...]

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Despicable Me is the sort of movie about which it is the most difficult to write. It is not a bad film by any stretch of the imagination. On the other hand, it didn’t set my heart [...]

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Shortly before the release of his film Signs, Newsweek magazine heralded writer/director M. Night Shyamalan as “the next Spielberg,” a moniker that has proved to be something of a millstone about the neck of an artist whose [...]

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