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‘Much Ado About Nothing’ an irresistible Shakespearean update
Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is about as good as Shakespearean cinema gets.
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When celebrity interviews go bad
CHICAGO - Let us consider for a moment the Hollywood performance that never gets nominated for awards but can be just as indelible as any Oscar-winning role. I'm referring to the celebrity interview that goes viral.
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'The Attack' finds a fresh point of view in the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict
Dr. Amin Jaafari is a revered surgeon in his Tel Aviv hospital, honored by his peers and seemingly embraced by his community. A secular Arab in a Jewish state, he travels easily in the highest medical circles, only occasionally catching a look, an unguarded crack about his Muslim background. If ...
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When zombies attack, it's time to declare 'World War Z'
"World War Z" promised to be some sort of ultimate zombie movie experience, and it's hard to call it that. But the first 25 minutes or so of this "Contagion"-meets-"28 Days Later" thriller will leave you breathless. And the rest of it serves up novel and often entertaining solutions to the various...
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'Monsters University' not as strong as first movie
It's been a dozen years since Mike and Sully scared up some big laughs in Pixar's "Monsters, Inc."
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The Hollywood Reporter's best stories of the week
The Hollywood Reporter's list of its 10 best stories of the week:
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Famous fictional mobsters
As mobster Tony Soprano, James Gandolfini had the kind of role that reached the very heights of popular culture - a character so famous we end up quoting him, comparing real-life people to him and knowing more about him than our own friends and neighbors. Gangsters have long made for some of the...
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Capsule reviews of new movie releases
"World War Z" - Might there be a real zombie apocalypse one day? The way zombies have invaded our pop culture the last several years, it's maybe a bit less implausible than it once was. What IS increasingly quite plausible, alas, is a global pandemic, and "World War Z," the long-awaited Brad Pitt...
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Anarchy acquires a human voice and motivation in 'The East'
Brit Marling, who played a cult leader claiming to be a prophetess from the future in "Sound of My Voice," takes a look at the other side of the equation in "The East," an audacious thriller about a cultish gang of anarchists who set out to punish those poisoning the planet and the people on it.
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A redneck 'Pulp Fiction' set around a pawn shop
A "redneck 'Pulp Fiction'" is such a natural idea for a grindhouse movie that it's shocking that it took almost 20 years for somebody to come up with "Pawn Shop Chronicles."





