Starring:
Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist
Review:
This dynamite thriller shivers with suspense. So if you ignore
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (from the global
bestseller by the late Stieg Larsson) because it’s in Swedish with
English subtitles, you probably deserve the remake Hollywood will
surely screw up. (
Peter Travers reviews The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in
his weekly video […]

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Starring:
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup
Review:
Oscar-nominated as Best Foreign Language Film from France, A
Prophet is a prison film like The Godfather is a
gangster film. Meaning this knockout punch of a thriller surpasses
its trappings to speak in a universal language about the ways power
corrupts the human condition. Newcomer Tahar Rahim is astounding as
Malik, 19, an illiterate […]

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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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Starring:
Idris Elba, Ali Larter, Beyonce Knowles, Bruce McGill, Jerry
O’Co…
Review:
Memo to Beyoncé Knowles: You were so good as Etta James
in Cadillac Records, so why’d you go spoil everything with
a rank cheeseball thriller that buries you in clichés and
won’t even help you dig yourself out? I’d call this stenchcloud
“Fatal Attraction meets The Temp,” but that […]

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Starring:
Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan
Review:
Questions: Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on
speed? Does jimmy-legs director D.J. Caruso think if he slowed down
the action we’d figure out how stupid the plot is? Did Shia LaBeouf
and Michelle Monaghan think there was any acting involved in
playing characters on the run from a computer intent on […]

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