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The critic’s picks

You know you’ve got a good film festival, like this year’s Virginia Film Festival, when it gives you a sense of the...

Film review: Finding Nemo 3D

The 3D re-release of Pixar’s 2003 undersea saga may or may not be a bid from director Andrew Stanton to make back...

Film review: Lawless

With more precision and presence of mind, Lawless might have pitched itself as an origin story of the whole...

Film review

When you’re young and in love, “forever” is a word you dare to carve in tree trunks or wedding cakes. Getting older,...

Film review: The Bourne Legacy

The best way to enjoy The Bourne Legacy is by not having seen the other three Bourne films. (Oops.) That way, those...

Film review: The Campaign

The agenda of director Jay Roach’s new movie is obviously not to mine the finer nuances of American electoral...

Film review: Total Recall

And so another Philip K. Dick story gets another shot at being another movie. Funny how hard it is not to go in...

Film review

The feature debut from writer-director Benh Zeitlin, working with playwright Lucy Alibar and a New Orleans collective...

The Watch; R, 98 minutes; Regal Downtown Mall 6

Do not think that just because its name was changed, the movie formerly known as Neighborhood Watch has in any way...

The Dark Knight Rises; PG-13, 164 minutes; Regal Seminole...

No wonder Bruce Wayne retired from being Batman. Everybody wants to psychoanalyze the guy: His butler, his burglar,...