A ponderous dud, Inception misses the mark as an action movie and a philosophical inquiry.

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I shall title this review Das Weisse Band, with the subtitle “In which we shall discuss the glorious enlightenment that a director of cinema shall bequeath unto an audience

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Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island is a spectacular mis-fire.

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The best film of the year that you didn’t hear about (and should have) is Duncan Jones’ sci-fi flick Moon.

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A Serious Man is one of the most engaging and thought provoking (in its own oblique way) films of the year.

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If you enjoy being smothered to death with a pillow, then Traitor is the movie for you. Ostensibly a thriller about an American Muslim who has gone deep undercover into an Islamic terrorist cell, it turns into a case study for the failure of good intentions.
 
The film follows Samir (Don Cheadle), a vagabond [...]

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Man On Wire is the exhilarating re-telling of Philippe Petit’s high-wire walk between the two towers of the newly constructed World Trade Center in 1974. Carefully constructed from interviews, archive footage, and Errol Morris worthy re-creations, director James Marsh weaves a dazzling narrative that inspires awe, amazement, and wonder.
Frenchman Philippe Petit is a hyperactive Frenchman [...]

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By Aaron Shay
Today is that day, gentle reader.  Today is the day I write of my cinematic disappointment.
Stoner films have a proud history, though not a credited or cultured one.  Cheech and Chong are the collective Orson Welles of marijuana films, giving one an idea of the quality stoner films aspire [...]

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