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Film Clips: What’s in theaters?
Daniel Radcliffe, in his first post-‘Harry Potter’ outing, sees dead people in the supernatural thriller “The Woman in Black,” plus whale-saving romance in “Big Miracle” and super-powered teens in “Chronicle” on area screens.
‘Drive’ leads this week’s new video releases
Film noir goes ultra-stylish in the visually dazzling crime drama “Drive,” featuring Ryan Gosling and Albert Brooks, and serial-murder goes ultra-bleak in the grim “Texas Killing Fields.”
It’s a man’s world?
ALBERT NOBBS ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “I think you are the strangest man I have ever met,” remarks young chambermaid Helen to Mr. Nobbs while strolling one day in 19th century Dublin during his pained attempts to court her. She has no idea. For one …
Film Clips: What’s in theaters?
Liam Neeson fends off ravening Alaskan wolves in “The Grey” while Sam Worthington threatens suicide in “Man on a Ledge,” but Glenn Close as a woman impersonating a man in 19th-century Dublin makes all that look easy in “Albert Nobbs.”
Film Clips: What’s in theaters today?
The parents of participants in a schoolyard fight demonstrate how to really do some damage in the black comedy “Carnage.” Plus, Parton and Latifah make a “Joyful Noise” and Mark Wahlberg gets criminal in “Contraband.” All on local movie screens.
‘Extremely Close’ is incredibly uneven
EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE ★ ★ 1/2 “Only humans can cry tears,” notes the precocious young protagonist of this fine-pedigreed yet frustrating 9/11 drama. It’s a seemingly random statement when it occurs, just one of many factoids the brainy kid drops from time to …
New this week on video
The politics are dirty in George Clooney’s dark drama “The Ides of March,” but that’s nothing compared to the shenanigans Catherine Deneuve gets into in Luis Bunuel’s 1967 erotic classic “Belle de Jour.”
Film Clips: What’s in theaters?
The parents of participants in a schoolyard fight demonstrate how to really do some damage in the black comedy “Carnage.” Plus, Parton and Latifah make a “Joyful Noise” and Mark Wahlberg gets criminal in “Contraband.” All on local movie screens.
‘Iron Lady’ lacks weight, depth
IRON LADY ★ ★ 1/2
Though Meryl Streep’s performance as the iron-willed (and occasionally iron-fisted) British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is richly detailed and compelling, the same can’t be said for this surprisingly superficial and unfocused bio-drama.
As a political leader, Thatcher was a wildly …
New on video
Brad Pitt redefines the game of baseball in the oddly inspirational “Moneyball,” and the Scorpion King’s got game no more in the tedious fifth installment of “The Mummy” franchise.
Film Clips: What’s in theaters?
The new year brings a trio of independent features — “The Devil Inside,” “In the Land of Blood and Honey” and “Pariah” — to join blockbusters at the multiplex.
Virus spreads; dark beckons
NEW THIS WEEK CONTAGION ★ ★ ★ Rated: PG-13 for disturbing content and some language Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow Director Steven Soderbergh’s (the “Ocean’s 11” trilogy) cool, competent and surprisingly calm bio-thriller argues for the best side of humanity (self-sacrifice, …
Film Clips: What’s in theaters?
Doctors Freud and Jung fight over “A Dangerous Method” — and a woman. Plus, “Tintin,” “War Horse,” “Hugo” and a new “Mission: Impossible,” all on local movie screens.
New this week on video
The fifth installment of the “Final Destination” series finds a busload of corporate employees avoiding a disaster, only to have the Grim Reaper catch up to them later.
Top 10 movies of 2011
2011 started out slow and sparse and it more or less ended up that way, too, in terms of truly noteworthy films working their way into mainstream release. That’s not to say, though, that out of the 400-plus movies that did their best to separate …
