Witness what a reported $250 million can purchase: The vision of a preposterous Manhattan; replete with gothic church-bell towers, a warren of dungeon-worthy subterranean tunnels, dilapidated tenements unwired for phone service, and a particle physics lab adjacent to Riker’s Island.
Spider-Man 3 is an expensive, muddled web of a film, with so many narrative threads [...]

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Déjà vu is a nifty little science-fiction flick, though it’s more of a chamber piece masquerading as a Beethoven symphony. Directed by Tony Scott (who usually operates as the Costco version of Michael Bay), and starring Denzel Washington, it’s mostly engaging, until it ultimately somehow fails to engage the viewer.

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