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 | Raising Hell Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars.
Rather than heaping on the gore, [b]The House of the Devil[/b] tease the audience along, building the tension slowly before tossing it into the fire face-first.More |  | Lose and Looney Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars.
A drug-addicted lawman on a mission to self-destruct, Nicolas Cage rises to the occasion with a fearless, man-on-a-tightrope showing.More |  | Apocalypse Soon The laughably overwrought [b]2012[/b], does no damage to John Cusack's credibility, and reaffirms his talent for bringing heft to an otherwise weightless exercise.More |  | Sending the Wrong Signals If Richard Curtis’ passion for pop wasn’t evident enough in his directorial debut, 2003’s [b]Love Actually[/b], he puts it on full display in [b]Pirate Radio[/b].More |  | Off the Wall, Literally Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars.
Whether [b]The Men Who Stare at Goats[/b], a film inspired by Jon Ronson’s book, which documents a time when the U.S. military encouraged a select few to hone their psychic abilities, is based in reality is ultimately irrelevant — it’s highly entertaining and very funny.More |  | Failure to Launch Rating: 2 out of 5 stars.
[b]Amelia[/b] has been dismissed by some as proof of the American film biography’s creative bankruptcy. It is nothing of the sort. Cinematic biography is not a defunct art form, nor is this drama about pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, starring and produced by a typically self-assured Hilary Swank, evidence of its impending demise.More |  | Soaring to the Screen at Long Last Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
Perhaps the biggest surprise about [b]Astro Boy[/b] is that it took Japan’s beloved cartoon robot more than half a century to make his big-screen debut. Originally conceived in 1951 by famed animator Osamu Tezuka as Tetsuwan Atomu, or Mighty Atom, and later reinvented as Astro Boy for American TV in the 60s, the boy with the mechanical body and the soul of a sprightly, overconfident child gets his origin story retold in the latest piece of eye candy from [b]Flushed Away[/b] director David Bowers.More |  | A Journey Into Darkness Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars.
How does one begin to describe a film like [b]Antichrist[/b], aptly described in the press notes as director Lars von Trier’s latest provocation? It is a repulsive, perplexing piece of art. It is also brutally effective.More |  | The Wild Rumpus Starts Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.
How much you appreciate Spike Jonze’s beautiful adaptation of author Maurice Sendak’s [b]Where the Wild Things Are[/b] might depend, more than anything else, on your willingness to be challenged. Unlike many movies aimed at young audiences, this one is neither facile nor sugarcoated. It is uncompromising in its intelligence and unflinching in its depiction of the downside of childhood.More |  | The Bumpy Road to Becoming an Icon Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Gabrielle Chanel was, by the evidence presented in director Anne Fontaine’s [b]Coco Before Chanel[/b], a difficult, even unpleasant woman. Rarely does she smile, and even more infrequently might her sentiments be mistaken for tender. She views the men in her early life as means to an end, but why shouldn’t she? They often regard her, in turn, with cold indifference and undisguised condescension.More |
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