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Brideshead Revisited

The big-screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel about a family of aristocratic Catholics sees Ben Whishaw as Sebastian,...

Death Race

It would take a team of semioticians to explain why Statham is somehow more compelling when obscured by an iron mask. But he is, as “Frankenstein,” this vicious thriller’s Web-celeb racer,...

Female Agents

Or ‘Band of Sisters’. 1944: a team of female French evacuees, led by Sophie Marceau’s battle-weary resistance fighter,...

Fly Me to the Moon

People who make kids’ movies bank on the fact that children are easy critics, and that these newbie filmgoers will gleefully sit through anything with bright colors and a fart joke or...

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People

Conflicted British journo Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) used to poke fun at celebrity culture in his left-field London mag, but, now...

Mamma Mia!

Throughout the screening of ‘Mamma Mia!’ I kept clocking the security guard in the corner. What was he thinking, I wondered, as Pierce BrosnanAl Pacino and Robert De...

Taken

Written by ‘Leon’ director Luc Besson and directed by Pierre Morel (‘The Transporter’), ‘Taken’ is a...

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

The son of a Nazi officer befriends a concentration camp inmate in this harrowing, inspiring drama.

The Duchess

If you’ve seen the posters for ‘The Duchess’, you’ll know that they recall the marital woes of another Spencer, Princess Diana, born two centuries after Georgiana (