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Movie review: 'Renoir' paints an old man capturing beauty

Christa Theret as Andree Heuschling and Michel Bouquet as Pierre-Auguste Renoir in Renoir.

"Renoir" aims to do for the great Auguste Renoir what "The Last Station" did for Leo Tolstoy. It's a lovely, painterly period piece that mimics the colors of Renoir's art, but one that never manages to find the warm, beating heart of the man.

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Movie review: 'Star Trek': Set your phasers to fun (w/video)

Kirk, Spock bring enough surprises, laughs in sequel
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Movie review: Insightful drama, but a barely adequate thriller

"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" tells the story of a young New Yorker whose life is upturned by 9/11 in ways he never imagined. He's a Princeton grad and Wall Street star but also a Pakistani, which never used to be a problem.
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Movie review: Whisky and trouble make a great cocktail in 'The Angels' Share'

Scottish street tough Robbie is finding it hard to leave the criminal life. After being arrested for assault, he tries desperately to find a job, only to have every door slammed in his face.
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Movie review: DiCaprio's Gatsby outshines Luhrmann's movie

Jazzy, fizzy and often quite fun, Baz Luhrmann's "Pretty Good Gatsby" takes F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great American Novel out for a sometimes dazzling, always irreverent spin.
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Movie review: 'Disconnect' takes on communication issues

We unplug our phone from the charger, pop in our ear buds and go out to seize the day. We text compulsively, post on Facebook obsessively, and when it comes time to shop, date or hook up, we log on, boot up and tune out.
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Movie review: We, the 'Peeples,' in order to copy comedy ...

"Peeples" is an African-American "Meet the Parents" that slips funnyman Craig Robinson of "The Office" into the Ben Stiller role. Casting the musically minded Robinson in this formula comedy about screwing up your first encounter with your potential in-laws is like replacing Stiller's Greg Focker...
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Movie review: Iron Man's a bit winded, but still able to show his mettle

The third "Iron Man" movie is the jokiest and cutest of them all. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) gets a kiddie sidekick, for Pete's sake.
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From 'Iron Man 3' to 'Star Trek,' sequels dominate summer movies

With so many remakes, sequels and familiar subjects hitting theaters between now and Labor Day, this year's summer movie season should be dubbed as "deja viewed."
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Yes, you can watch a favorite film too many times for your own good

Obsession, defined by Merriam-Webster, is "a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling." One of the more benign things people can get obsessed with is a movie, watching and re-watching it, memorizing it, poring over its details - unless, of course, you're John...
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Movie review: A radical 'Company' lies about its age

Robert Redford delivers a lecture on '60s idealism in "The Company You Keep," an engrossing thriller about the last anti-Vietnam War radicals still underground.