Starring:
Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear
Review:
How do you make an Iraq War movie that audiences will actually
pay to see? (Don’t holler The Hurt Locker, since all its
Oscar medals never melted into box-office gold.) Matt Damon and
director Paul Greengrass deliver their answer in Green
Zone, taking a nonfiction book, Imperial Life in the
Emerald City, by former Washington […]

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Starring:
Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Samantha Morton
Review:
If anyone asks you where the best and brightest new directors
are coming from, point to Oren Moverman, whose vividly touching and
vital debut feature signals the arrival of a filmmaker — he
wrote the script with Alessandro Camon — who can bare the
soul of a character with precision and healing […]

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Starring:
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Review:
Here’s the Iraq War movie for those who don’t like Iraq War
movies. The Hurt Locker doesn’t preach. Director Kathryn
Bigelow, working from a strong script by embedded journalist Mark
Boal, gets right down to business
(watch Peter Travers’ video review of The Hurt
Locker). She takes us deep into an elite U.S.
bomb-disposal […]

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