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OSCAR MOVIE REVIEW: AMOUR
The Oscars are Feb 24, and over the next few days there are few “Oscar” films I need to catch you up on before the big event! See a French film called AMOUR which
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MOVIE: HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
In a season that features at least one remarkable presidential portrayal–here comes another, and this one definitely the wackier. An Irish/Englishman playing Lincoln is one thing, but America’s unofficial court jester and one time
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MOVIE: ANNA KARENINA
The most ravishing movie of the season is ANNA KARENINA , novelist Leo Tolstoy’s sweeping pageant of love, marriage, passion, family, God, nature, and the constraints of class and society in 19th century Russia. The
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MOVIE REVIEW: LINCOLN
I have seen LINCOLN– and he is Daniel Day-Lewis. This is an absolutely flawless performance, which together with Spielberg’s direction, Tony Kushner’s screenplay, based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book TEAM OF RIVALS,
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MOVIE REVIEW: FLIGHT
It’s hair-raising– but DON’T MISS this FLIGHT! It’s an unexpectedly emotional, quiet, faintly pious, but deeply engrossing dramatic thriller, which stars a slightly paunchy Denzel Washington as a veteran airline pilot named Whip Whitaker;
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MOVIE REVIEW: ARGO
Ben Affleck has done it behind the camera again– directed a first rate thriller! It’s sleeker, sharper, and surer than his previous directorial work– and it’s already being touted as a possible Best Picture
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MOVIE REVIEW: ARBITRAGE
If Richard Gere is up on the big screen–I’m watching. I’ve been smitten since his Armani-clad turn as an AMERICAN GIGOLO. In ARBITRAGE, he’s grayer, still a sharp dresser– and still playing fast and
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MOVIE REVIEW: EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
I sat down to watch EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE. Make that “Extremely Tedious and Incredibly Morose.” I had to stop after 20 minutes. I tried again, got through it, but found the film
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MOVIE REVIEW: WAR HORSE
I was so angry with Steven Spielberg after I saw this movie. It had a perfectly good premise. A gorgeous horse named Joey and the poor English farm boy (Jeremy Irvine who looks like
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MOVIE REVIEW: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is a killer film that will leave you breathing hard, and thinking at warp speed. Directed by David Fincher and based on the smash international best-selling trilogy by
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