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Body of Lies

It’s hard to remain a Ridley Scott fan these days. Once a director who could make anything—an Apple computer, a...

Changeling

Based on real events, Eastwood’s dark drama begins with the mysterious disappearance, in 1928, of nine-year-old Walter Collins, left at home while his mother Christine (Jolie) is at work. Only...

Choke

The second film to draw on the ‘unfilmable’ writings of US enfant terrible Chuck Palahniuk (after 1999’s massively overrated ‘Fight Club’), ‘Choke’ never manages to be as edgy,...

Gomorrah

One of two Italian films at Cannes that stuck the knife into domestic political and societal corruption (see also Il Divo), Gomorrah won the festival’s Grand Prix. Based on a novel by...

I've Loved You So Long

This is a jailbreak movie, if not in the usual sense: Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas, displaying her fluent French) has...

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

This sequel picks up where its 2005 predecessor left off: The four main mammals head back to Manhattan, only to wind up somewhere on continental Africa. Evil penguins, posh British chimps and an...

Quantum of Solace

Revenge is a dish best served cold. Which, along with mean and lean, is how Daniel Craig plays 007 in Ari Folman’s wizard colleague,...