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Review: `The Intouchables' is a real crowd-pleaser
May. 23, 2012 3:12 PM ET (AP)
On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes his reluctant caretaker....
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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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Iran's Kiarostami goes to Japan for latest film
May. 21, 2012 11:37 AM ET (AP)
Abbas Kiarostami has found inspiration far from home.
The Iranian director's films are routinely banned in his home country, whose Islamist government has arrested or barred several younger filmmakers...
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In 'Moonrise Kingdom,' Wes Anderson relocates
May. 18, 2012 8:56 AM ET (AP)
In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods.
Even a relatively loose Anderson film is more ornately...
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Review: `Battleship' loud, dumb but stays afloat
May. 15, 2012 6:21 PM ET (AP)
"Battleship" 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 _ like...