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The Town / ***½ (R)

Warner Bros. Pictures presents a film directed by Ben Affleck, Written by Peter Craig and Affleck & Aaron Stockard. Based on the novel "Prince of Thieves" by Chuck Hogan. Running time: 124 min....

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps / *** (PG-13)

20th Century Fox presents a film directed by Oliver Stone. Written by Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff, based on characters created by Stanley Weiser & Oliver Stone. Running time: 133 min. Rated PG-13...

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The Social Network / **** (PG-13)

"How do you distinguish yourself in a population of people who all got 1600 on their SAT?" -- Mark Zuckerberg, "The Social Network" The simple answer to that question is to invent the most innovative...

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Let Me In / ***½ (R)

I have called the Swedish film "Let the Right One In" the greatest vampire movie ever made. I erroneously omitted it from my list of the top 25 films of the past decade earlier this year. It is one of...

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Unstoppable / **** (PG-13)

When I first heard about "Unstoppable", the fifth feature film collaboration between star Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott, I didn't think much of it. Their best film together was their first,...

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Megamind / *** (PG)

What happens when the supervillain prevails? Find out in the new animated comedy "Megamind". DreamWorks Animation SKG presents a film directed by Tom McGrath. Written by Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent...

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 / *** (PG-13)

Warner Bros. Pictures presents a film directed by David Yates. Written by Steve Kloves. Based on the novel by J.K. Rowling. Running time: 146 min. Rated PG-13 (for intense action violence, frightening...

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TRON: Legacy / *** (PG)

Almost 30 years ago the motion picture business was revolutionized by a little movie called "TRON". It was a confusing movie to the public at large with its techno-babble dialogue involving "programs"...

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The King's Speech / **** (R)

It's difficult to see the full scope of a movie like "The King's Speech". Upon first glance, it's a personal film that tells the story of a man struggling to overcome the demon of his own speech...

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Rango / ***½ (PG)

Every time you see the sun you hear a faint sizzling sound. Someone is diverting the water away from a western desert town. A steel guitar pangs lonesome notes on the soundtrack. Every frame is filled...

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Battle: Los Angeles / **½ (PG-13)

What would happen if you took a realistic war film, like Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down", and applied the filmmaking and story telling philosophies from that movie to the plotline of an alien invasion...

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Sucker Punch / ** (PG-13)

Warner Bros. Pictures presents a film directed by Zack Snyder. Written by Snyder & Steve Shibuya. Running time: 109 min. Rated PG-13 (for thematic material involving sexuality, violence and combat...

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Your Highness / ** (R)

Universal Pictures presents a film directed by David Gordon Green. Written by Danny R. McBride & Ben Best. Running time: 102 min. Rated R (for strong crude and sexual content, pervasive language,...

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Scream 4 / *** (R)

Dimension Films presents a film directed by Wes Craven. Written by Kevin Williamson. 111 min. Rated R (for strong bloody violence, language, and some teen drinking). The truth is I've never found any...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides / **½ (PG-13)

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy took the series through an entire life of evolution. Beginning with "The Curse of the Black Pearl" as depthless fun that mixed good action sequences, lighthearted...

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Drive / ***½ (R)

Ryan Gosling drives the show in the new thriller "Drive". FilmDistrict presents a film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Written by Hossein Amini. Based on the novel by James Sallis. Running time: 100...

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Puss in Boots *** (PG)

The globalization of our society is well under way, and DreamWorks Animation's newest feature film is proof of that. When I was a child, the notion of watching a kid's movie where the use of the...

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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas / *** (R)

New Line Cinema presents a film directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson. Written by Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg. Running time: 90 min. Rated R (for strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity,...

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J. Edgar / *** (R)

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit, and lost without deserving." --William Shakespeare, "Othello" Act II, sc. 3. John Edgar Hoover, the man often credited with the...

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Melancholia / ***½ (R)

Lars von Trier's latest opus "Melancholia" is like a symphony imagined on screen, telling an intimate story that spans the cosmic into profound examination of humanity's universal desires and fears....

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