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Quarantine

Since The Blair Witch Project, there has been no shortage of horror films utilizing the handheld-camera conceit. Quarantine’s major contribution to this beyond-played out subgenre is that at one point, the camera — which belongs to a television crew piggybacking on what was supposed to be a ...

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An American Carol

BY Nick Flanagan

Self-proclaimed "9/11 Republican" David Zucker returns with an ideological comedy that harshly and unsuccessfully uses the trademark zaniness of his Airplane and Naked Gun franchises with ...

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The Express

BY Adam Nayman

It’s hard not to be moved by the story of Ernie Davis, who in 1962 became the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy as the United States’ best college football player, only to die one year ...

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City of Ember

BY Kieran Grant

Maybe it’s fitting that a global-warming allegory be as concerned about its own environment as it is about the real-world one it mirrors, but the makers of City of Ember seem downright ...

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Beverly Hills Chihuahua

From the director who brought us both Scooby Doo movies, comes another cutsy canine tale with a mixed cast of humans and dogs. Chloe (voiced by Drew ...

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All Together Now

Old rich hippies and strangely attired circus folk join forces in Sin City to create a $180 million theatrical production that will undoubtedly enrich their ...

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Body of Lies

Body of Lies is based on David Ignatius’ 2007 bestseller about an embedded CIA operative in Jordan, played in the film by Leonardo DiCaprio in a ...

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Blindness

Many critics who were present for the film’s premiere at Cannes were not kind to director Fernando Mereilles’ adaptation of José Saramago’s dark allegory ...

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Flash of Genius

Rarely has a movie about a little guy who takes on a corporate Goliath seemed quite so little as Flash of Genius. Inspired by the New Yorker article by John ...

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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

PR flak-dom gets a gentle slap on the wrist in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, a would-be scabrous look behind the scenes at a fictional NYC glossy, ...

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