Movie Reviews
Movie Reviews
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MOVIE REVIEWS
‘Safe House’ is a gripping, heart-pumping, violent tale of espionage
He must have joined “The Agency” with an eye toward excitement, exotic locales and danger. But in Capetown, a backwater as far as foreign intrigue goes, agency newcomer Matt Weston is stuck a one-man show, running a never-used “safe house” in the C.I.A.’...
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Fassbender shines in ‘Shame,’ a movie infused with sex that isn’t remotely erotic
Eye-contact is how it begins a shared glance on the subway, maybe followed by a smile but always cranked up from a glance to a penetrating stare.
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, ‘The Vow’ is a clever romance
“The Vow” is like a Nicholas Sparks novel with a dash of wit, a hint of edge and a smidgen less sap. It’s a romance in “The Notebook” tradition “inspired by true events” and scripted by committee. But as such concoctions go, it’s not...
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ENTERTAINMENT
Don’t look for heroes in ‘Chronicle’
Teenagers acquire super powers and, being teenagers, videotape themselves as they learn what they can do in “Chronicle,” an entertaining comic-book movie without the comic book.
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MOVIE REVIEWS
A movie of disguise that reveals much
Albert Nobbs, an attendant in a well-appointed 19th-century Dublin hotel, keeps to himself. He rarely sustains eye contact, moves through his duties with solemn, ghostlike silence and does his best to fade into the Victorian wallpaper.
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‘Big Miracle’ is a whale of a great tale
The title isn’t an exaggeration. It was something of a “Big Miracle,” the way the plight of a family of gray whales, stranded under the Alaska ice, captivated the country and forced oil men and environmentalists, natives and Cold War foes to team up back in the waning days of...
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MOVIE REVIEWS
‘One for the Money’ not worth the price of admission
On today’s edition of “Smart Women, Stupid Choices” Katherine Heigl! She left a halfway decent medical soap opera for a string of increasingly mediocre, decreasingly romantic “comedies” pairing her with increasingly bland leading men.
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MOVIE REVIEWS
‘The Woman in Black’: An old-school thriller that features a young star
Daniel Radcliffe acquits himself reasonably well in his first adult big-screen role, a man haunted by “The Woman in Black.”
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MOVIE REVIEWS
Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolves?
Liam Neeson pumps up the volume on his reputation as a middle-aged neck-snapper with “The Grey,” in which he doesn’t take on a pack of bad guys but a pack of really, really bad wolves.
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‘Dangerous’ liaison: To be Jung and in love
Sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar it can also symbolize your unresolved daddy issues and the fact that you like getting spanked.




