And that would be a bad thing, because “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” hoses off any stink Burton left behind. It’s one of the year’s nicest surprises. An origin story to the sci-fi franchise that began on the big screen in 1968, “Rise” draws upon story elements of 1972’s “Conquest of the Planet […]
127 Hours
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It’s the new “Garden State.” Not a compliment. Too bad, because its first 20 minutes or so are full of promise, as would-be novelist Sam (Josh Radnor, TV’s “How I Met My Mother”) witnesses an African-American child (newcomer Michael Aligeri) get separated from his foster family on the subway, and rushes to his aid. But […]
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Shadow
This Italian-made but English-language thriller is an expectation-subverter, whose opening minutes of beauty belie the ugliness to come. Your first hint rears its head when our hero, David (Jake Muxworthy), stops for a beer in a mountaintop watering hole … where a Ouija board hangs on the wall. The trouble begins when two rednecks (Chris […]