The rehabilitation of Ben Affleck is complete. His penance has been accepted. The star of Gigli, Daredevil and Pearl Harbor has now earned audiences’ respect again (to say nothing of finally being worthy of wife Jennifer Garner). After a period of disastrous films, and a career trajectory in a nosedive, the Oscar winner wowed everyone [...]

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The Hurt Locker is an extraordinarily uncomfortable movie to watch, not because it is poorly made, but because it succeeds so brilliantly at what it does — place its audience directly in the crosshairs of life in war-torn Iraq. This is one of the best Iraq war movies yet made (though it is not the [...]

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