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Review: Anderson rediscovers balance in `Kingdom'
May. 21, 2012 7:44 PM ET (AP)
The contradiction inherent to all Wes Anderson films _ the juxtaposition of the meticulous artificiality of the settings and the passionately wistful emotions that are longing to burst free _ is at...
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'Coal Miner's Daughter' Lynn married at 15, not 13
May. 20, 2012 12:43 PM ET (AP)
Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being married at 13 in "Coal Miner's Daughter," documents...
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Capsule reviews of `Battleship,' other new films
May. 16, 2012 12:01 PM ET (AP)
"Battleship" _ This is big, dumb fun that knows it's big, dumb fun and enthusiastically embraces its big, dumb, fun nature. Director Peter Berg has crafted an almost fetishistic homage to Michael Bay...
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Review: 'Hysteria' has a few oohs, aahs, no Big O
May. 15, 2012 9:29 AM ET (AP)
Like the inventors of the vibrator it depicts, "Hysteria" really aims to please. And like an inattentive lover displaced by the sexual aid, the film never quite satisfies.
True to the title, there are...
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Review: Goldthwait goes off in `God Bless America'
May. 10, 2012 9:17 AM ET (AP)
Bobcat Goldthwait's targets are many and easy and obvious in "God Bless America," his satire of everything that's wrong with the world today, but he hits them squarely and in bold fashion.
The former...