Priest is the sort of movie you walk into knowing full well its IQ is significantly less than the bucket of popcorn balanced in your lap. About all you can hope for in this situation is that it will also be fun. And when it turns out to not be any fun at all, you [...]

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The Tourist is something of an enigma. This is only German writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s second film. The first was The Lives of Others, an extraordinary marvel set in the tyrannical former East Germany (it won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film) and certainly one of the most impressive debut films I’ve ever [...]

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On one level, Creation is the story of the composition of one of the most important and controversial books the world has ever seen, “On the Origin of Species.” On another, it is a deeply personal story, caring far less about the details that make up the theory of evolution via natural selection and far [...]

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