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‘Sherlock Holmes’ feels elementary

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Dr. Watson and the lads from Scotland Yard load...

Despite cast, ‘Nine’ is a bore

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How can a movie starring six Academy Award-winning actors be such a bore...

The movie year in review

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Paul Newman died, James Cameron came out of retirement and Quentin Tarantino...

‘Broken Embraces’ isn’t funny

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"Films have to be finished," intones Mateo, the blind-former-filmmaker. "Even if you do it blindly...

Friendly skies ‘Up In The Air’

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Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) has a job that keeps him flying 200 days/ year in Up In The Air — he’s a corporate downsizer brought in to fire excess employees. It’s a tough job and Bingham has made a career out of detaching, disassociating from anything that could ...

A slice of ‘Ninja’

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The extraordinarily violent Ninja Assassin opens with a tough guy Yakuza gang leader having a tattoo inked on his back by a mysterious old man who talks about the four noble professions, the five rings, and other cliché Japanese cultural mumbo-jumbo. A henchman ...

Brotherly love

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A mid all the promotional noise for Up in the Air and Avatar and the rest, it’s easy to overlook a drama like Brothers, with its plain-spoken title and stern subject matter...

‘Me and Orson Welles’ a rare tale

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"Me and Orson Welles" is a little velvet sack of...

‘Invictus’ a feel good, touching story

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Predictable and manipulative, "Invictus" is a...

‘The Princess and the Frog’ sticks to Disney template

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As you might guess by the title, "The Princess and the...

Fantastic furry fun in ‘Mr. Fox’

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In a world of children’s films increasingly characterized by technological accomplishment and sophisticated rendering in lieu of good old-fashioned storytelling, it was a breath of fresh air to enjoy the stop-motion Fantastic Mr. Fox...

‘Red Cliff’ a rare war movie invested in strategy

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Red Cliff is the first Chinese-language film from John Woo in more than a decade, and reportedly the most expensive Chineselanguage movie ever made (though, once you see its Lord of the Rings-like immensity, that “reportedly” becomes “oh, totally”). It is two-and-...