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  Sleepwalking Through 'Safe House'

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  "He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan Reynolds... More >>

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  'The Vow': For Better or for Amnesia

  By NICK PINKERTON

  The Vow, a full-bodied lunge for the heartstrings, has a humdinger of a premise, forcing its characters to face a question that most of us ask... More >>

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  'Return' to the Home Front

  By NICK PINKERTON

  Still wearing desert camo, Kelli (Linda Cardellini) comes back from a tour of duty in an unspecified country to the husband (Michael Shannon),... More >>

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  'In Darkness,' Down in the Sewer, Desperate to Survive

  By MICHAEL ATKINSON

  Holocaust culture has proven to be essentially infinite; almost 70 years since the end of World War II, and untold stories of decimation and... More >>

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  This Way Lies Darkness In 'The Turin Horse'

  By NICK PINKERTON

  Béla Tarr, the Hungarian director who became something like the patron saint of slow cinema with 1994's 450-minute... More >>

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  'The Inkeepers' Is Horror, Stripped Down to Its Bones

  By NICK PINKERTON

  Ti West, the 34-year-old writer/director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror... More >>

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  Save the Humans In 'Big Miracle'!

  By MELISSA ANDERSON

  Starring everyone who wasn't in New Year's Eve—and larded with just as many bromides—Big Miracle is inspired by the true story of the... More >>

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  'Chronicle' Gives Power to the People

  By AARON HILLIS

  In our status-updated, YouTubed, retweeted age of self-documentation, does the "faux-found-footage" genre—popularized by The Blair Witch... More >>

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  Sundance, In Crisis

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  It's potentially dangerous to look at the lineup of the Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday, as a reflection of the character of... More >>

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  'Man On a Ledge' Takes a Dive

  By BRIAN MILLER

  The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man On a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown... More >>

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  Liam Neeson Returns

  By ERIC HYNES

  Halfway through last year's rough-and-tumble thriller Unknown, assassins come calling for a man who's suffering from amnesia (Liam Neeson). All... More >>

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  Gina Carano Goes 'Haywire'

  By NICK PINKERTON

  There's a point in Haywire when the film's protagonist, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), gone rogue from her job as hired muscle for a... More >>

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  'Haywire''s Odd Couple

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  "Steven [Soderbergh] asked me, 'Why is Angelina Jolie the only female action star in the world?' I told him, 'I don't know,' and he said,... More >>

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  All About the Queen In 'Miss Bala'

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  Mexico's submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar race, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala spells out the destiny of its would-be beauty-queen... More >>

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  'Crazy Horse' Takes the Butt Seriously

  By MELISSA ANDERSON

  Recording "Les Filles du Crazy," an anthem they'll later lip-synch onstage, half a dozen women—performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris' classy... More >>

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