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Jeremy Renner is shown in a scene from, “The Hurt Locker,” Morris’s pick to win Best Picture tonight at the 82nd annual Academy Awards. AP photo OSCARS: ‘Hurt Locker’ the favorite to win it all
When the 82nd Annual Academy Awards are announced this evening, the only spontaneity might be at what weight co-host Alec Baldwin will tip the scales.
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Cheadle steals the show in ‘Brooklyn's Finest’
A thin blue film coats Antoine Fuqua’s “Brooklyn’s Finest,” the director’s welcome needed return to his hardboiled cop drama roots. And, like Fuqua’s “Training Day,” this is a testosterone-fueled,...
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AP photo Johnny Depp, left, Mia Wasikowska, center, and Anne Hathaway are shown in a scene from the film, “Alice in Wonderland. FILM REVIEW: A new take on ‘Alice’, without much meaning
There is a lot about Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” that’s curiouser and curiouser, but just not much “muchness.” It is a phantasmagorical fever-dream that is both absorbing and banal, a looki...
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Cera carries 'Youth in Revolt'
It’s a familiar plotline for anyone who has watched movies since the 1980s: sexually frustrated teen seeks to lose his virginity, falls head-over-heels for a beautiful girl, and then undergoes a s...
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REVIEW: 'Leap Year' a stein of stale ale
Missing only a leprechaun jonesing for his Lucky Charms, the Irish-set Leap Year loops in as many lush landscapes and quirky archetypes as the Emerald Isle can bear. If it were a product of the co...
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