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02/09/2012

Gimmicks, ahoy!
There’s little mystery about Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. This 3-D sort-of sequel wears its formula-for-dollars purpose with pride, delivering a dash of cinematic nonsense that represents Hollywood calculation at its most shameless.

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02/04/2012

Blood lust quenched
This week, we begin in France: The Cinema of Jean Rollin

02/02/2012

Incurably trite

Universal Pictures
John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore star in the mawkish whale tale Big Miracle.

Big Miracle will pull at your heartstrings. But, unfortunately, that seems to be about all that it does. Ken Kwapis directed Big Miracle, and he touches all of the expected emotional spots, with three stranded whales fighting for survival while humans bicker among themselves to either save the whales or to make themselves look good trying.


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01/28/2012

Morbid fascination
This week we begin in South Texas: Texas Killing Fields (***) Rated R, 105 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.

01/26/2012

Anything but bland

Open Road Films
Liam Neeson stars as a man who must stand his ground in the face of fearsome threats in The Grey.

The Grey is an exhausting movie. Before completion, it confronts a series of frights and fears conjured not by the demonic, computer-generated sort, but instead by dangers both natural and man-made. Joe Carnahan (Narc, 2010’s The A-Team) co-wrote, with Ian Mackenzie Jeffers (author of the source short story Ghost Walker), and directs The Grey, filling it with with realistic obstructions for its main group of plagued characters. Carnahan and Jeffers set up the basic premise and then drag a dwindling party of seven through some gruesome encounters with an array of fierce predators.


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