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A bank robber (Russell Crowe) and a rancher on the verge of losing his land (Christian Bale) are thrown together in this 2007 remake. Empathetic performances, realistic violence.
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A shy young Chinese girl (Wei Tang) transforms herself into a sophisticated insider during the World War II Japanese occupation of Shanghai. Ang Lee’s lengthy political piece, also featuring Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Joan Chen lightens up on the heavy drama only occasionally to showcase explicit sex scenes that leave nothing to the [...]

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Director/writer John Turturro utilizes quite a cast (Susan Sarandon, James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Mary-Louise Parker, Mandy Moore, Aida Turturro, Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Eddy Izzard, Elaine Stritch) in his quirky musical. Conversations are loosely based upon banter that Turturro overheard growing up in his New York neighborhood, while scenarios and [...]

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Tim Roth is the central character in Francis Ford Coppola’s interpretation of Mircea Eliade’s novella. Allegory, regeneration, Hindu enlightenment, romance, eros, philosophy, supernatural powers, Nazis, Romanian extremists, highly evolved intellect and linguistics are splattered across the screen leaving their mark like random paint balls for audiences to absorb.
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A home-bred Boston private investigator (Casey Affleck) is asked to participate in a police investigation involving the three year old missing daughter of a drugged-out mom (Amy Ryan) and learns that right and wrong are not always easily distinguishable. Morgan Freeman, Michelle Monaghan, Amy Madigan, and Ed Harris head up a hard [...]

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A jealous young girl (Saoirse Ronan) ruins her sister’s (Keira Knightley) happiness when she accuses a suitor (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit. Flash backs, set during WWII envelope audiences in confusing scenarios and while there is a moving interview/explanation delivered by Vanessa Redgrave, it comes too late to rescue viewers [...]

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Wendy (Laura Liney) and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) struggle with how to deal with their never-there for-them father ( Philip Bosco) during his final months. The fine performances almost make up for the grim subject matter cinematically captured in cold, east coast venues.
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