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War Horse (12A)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:08 PM PST

War Horse will deliver all of this, and yet nearly every frame of it had me clenched in unhappy resistance. Neigh, neigh, and thrice neigh! Indeed, I think it will dismay anyone who has seen the National Theatre's unforgettable stage production, still

DVD: The Guard (18)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:08 PM PST

"I'm sick and tired of the people we have to deal with in this business," Mark Strong's drug-smuggling hood, Clive, moans.

Tatsumi (15)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:08 PM PST

This combines a selection of his renowned stories, couched in the original manga style, with snippets of Tatsumi's autobiography, narrated by the man himself. The first of the five stories, "Hell", is the most striking, a photographer's memoir of

Shame (18)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:08 PM PST

In the first film it was Irish Republican fervour; here, it's unassuageable lust. Michael Fassbender once again plays the man, a New York exec named Brandon who spends office hours grunting in the loo and all other hours having sex – with hookers,

DVD: The Scarlet Blade (PG)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:08 PM PST

They play two of Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads during the English Civil War. Sylvester hungers for the Colonel's royalist daughter, Claire (June Thorburn), so he risks his neck to help her and her royalist pals, who include Jack Hedley's ill-defined hero,

Margin Call (15)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:08 PM PST

That we should even care about such people is a mark of first-time film-maker J C Chandor's smart script and sympathetic handling. It builds expertly: during a killer round of redundancies at an investment firm, an outgoing risk analyst (Stanley Tucci)

DVD: The Interrupters (E)

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 08:08 PM PST

On a daily basis, governments and shady financiers present us with the very worst of humanity, Ameena Matthews, a former drug addict and gang member and the daughter of a Chicago gangster, Jeff Fort, gives us the best humanity has to offer in Steve

Movie Review | 'Man on a Mission': ‘Man on a Mission,’ With Richard Garriott — Review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 07:05 PM PST

Richard Garriott in "Man on a Mission." Blasting Off as a Space Tourist "Man on a Mission," the most expensive home movie ever made, is one man's genial account of his trip into outer space. What's odd about it is that while you can certainly

Movie Review | 'Fake It So Real': ‘Fake It So Real’ Visits the Small World of Wrestling — Review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 05:17 PM PST

A scene from the documentary "Fake It So Real," directed by Robert Greene. The taunts in the ring may be make-believe, but the slams against the mat are agonizingly genuine in Robert Greenes vivid documentary Fake It So Real, which examines the weeklong

Movie Review | 'Don’t Go in the Woods': ‘Don’t Go in the Woods,’ by Vincent D’Onofrio — Review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 05:17 PM PST

Ali Tobia in "Don't Go in the Woods." Vincent DOnofrio can do crazy. Perhaps you know that from his intellectually tormented detective on televisions Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Or perhaps you know how far he can really take crazy, to brilliant and

Movie Review | 'Albatross': In ‘Albatross,’ Coming of Age at the English Seaside — Review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 05:17 PM PST

Jessica Brown Findlay and Felicity Jones in "Albatross."

Movie Review | 'Domain': ‘Domain,’ Written and Directed by Patric Chiha - Review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:33 PM PST

The good thing about mathematics is you dont have to talk; you create order without words, declares Nadia (Batrice Dalle), a haughty, self-destructive mathematician holding forth tipsily to her bohemian friends at a nighttime picnic in Domain. A

Movie Review | 'The Divide': ‘The Divide,’ Directed by Xavier Gens - Review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:33 PM PST

"The Divide" aims to embrace that genre and transcend it. The opening sequence is a stunner to get the blood rushing, with chaotically cut frames filled to bursting with panicked crowds running around and over one another, fleeing here and there

Movie Review | 'Lula: Son of Brazil': ‘Lula: Son of Brazil,’ Directed by Fábio Barreto - Review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:33 PM PST

Rui Ricardo Diaz portrays an impassioned man of the people destined for the presidency in "Lula, Son of Brazil."

Movie Review | 'Joyful Noise': ‘Joyful Noise,’ With Latifah and Parton - Review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:33 PM PST

The music includes three new songs by Dolly Parton, who co-stars with Queen Latifah in the Sacred Divinity Choir of Pacashau, Ga. A small town hit hard by the recession, Pacashau is only the nominal setting of this inspirational pseudo-Southern hokum.

Movie Review | 'Sing Your Song': ‘Sing Your Song,’ Documentary About Harry Belafonte - Review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:33 PM PST

Its only fitting that Harry Belafontes big, bountiful life has inspired an expansive, understandably hagiographic documentary, Sing Your Song. Silky voiced and snake hipped, with a supernova smile that dazzled Americans and helped demolish racial

Movie Review | 'Contraband': ‘Contraband,’ With Mark Wahlberg - Review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 03:33 PM PST

From the way Mr. Kormakur initially shoots New Orleans, the camera tracing circles in the night sky, it looks as if he didn't want to come down to earth. He does soon enough, though, where he starts busily putting the numerous pieces into place. Mr.

Sundance Advance

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 02:16 PM PST

Sundance has become a place where less well-known fiction -- Push (2009) and Winter's Bone (2010) -- blossoms into prize-winning adaptations. Here are the books behind four films debuting at this year's festival. Goats by Mark Jude Poirier (Miramax

?Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory?: The West Memphis Three Go Free

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 12:38 PM PST

Time is very, very strange in here. I?m surprised by things sometimes, I guess, like being told I have arthritis or looking in the mirror and seeing that my hairline is receding. ?Damien Echols What greater gift to a filmmaker than to see their work

'Joyful Noise' review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 10:25 AM PST

Cheesy choir competition comedy works best when characters shut up and sing Metromix Critic's Rating: Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer and Queen Latifah (Credit: Van Redin/Warner Bros.) related items 'Contraband' review Another action-thriller strikeout for

'Contraband' review

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 10:25 AM PST

Another action-thriller strikeout for Mark Wahlberg

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