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<p>A movie about childhood nightmares that plays too much like an actual, incoherent nightmare to make a good movie, <i>Intruders</i> is a psychodrama divided against itself.  Keep reading

The Big Year has such an overstuffed comedic cast that it’s a shock to realize how modest and unconcerned with generating broad laughs it is. Directed by David Frankel (of The Devil Wears Prada and Marley & Me), produced by Ben Stiller and adapted from a book by former Denver Post reporter Mark Obmascik

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What do you call an action movie manned by people who look as if they don’t want to be there? An inertia movie? Action movies aren’t just about action — they’re also about presence, about watching appealing or compelling personalities go about the business of kicking ass.

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When they work, found footage films are testaments to the power of a limited perspective. Features like The Blair Witch Project, REC and Cloverfield get juice out of the fact that we’re not able to see or know more than the characters on screen.

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You may groan by saying that Robert De Niro is back with another movie just to pay his mortgage but take heed, at least Clive Owen is there with him and Jason Statham is even tagging along.

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