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Bourne Beyond the Wire

You can’t just fictionalize actual events and ignore their real-life consequences. The makers of Green Zone did. MaryAnn Johanson

Memory Makers

Coincidence brings together people who remember too much of things past Ed Symkus

Monty Python: Almost the Truth

Blessed are the cheese makers Kevin Taylor

Parenthood

Loved the 1989 Ron Howard film, but the television series fails to stand out Lisa Fairbanks-Rossi

KORG DS-10 Plus

A simulated synthesizer, the KORG DS-10 Plus is limited only by its size and its players’ imaginations. Marty Demarest

The Frazzled Blue Line

It’s hard out there for a pimp. Hard for actors, too, with all the flawed heroes in Brooklyn’s Finest Ed Symkus

Ascetic Love

The Last Station, covering the final year of Tolstoy’s life, highlights the struggle between natural impulses and restraint Michael Bowen

Sellout

Kevin Smith has some ‘splaining to do MaryAnn Johanson

Ill Wind

Scorsese’s newest thriller harnesses some fabulous performances but leaves the ending vague Ed Symkus

Try One More Time

If you know he’s going to win the Oscar, you start fixating on the details of his performance Michael Bowen

Untrue Grue

Because it spends too much energy setting up for a sequel, The Wolfman lacks bite MaryAnn Johanson

Mouldering

Peter Jackson turns a novel about a girl’s murder and ascent to heaven into a psychedelic special-effects bonanza. Bad idea. Ed Symkus

L'espionnage, je t'aime

That Pierre Morel movie with John Travolta looking ridiculous in a completely shaved head? Pretty damn good, actually. MaryAnn Johanson

Pan Apocalypticon

Soon we’ll tire of genre films that mash up every convention to create something new the way Book of Eli does, but we’re not there yet Ed Symkus

Deduce and Pummel

Sherlock Holmes was always smarter than you. Now he can kick your ass. Ed Symkus