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On the Screen

• ‘Alice’ apt to leave moviegoers wondering

  “Alice in Wonderland”
  Rated PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar.

  March 10, 2010

• ‘The Crazies’a tribute to boredom

  “The Crazies”
  Rated R for bloody violence and language.

  March 3, 2010

• ‘Shutter Island’a chilling homage to Hitchcock

  “Shutter Island”
  Rated R for disturbing violent content, language and some nudity.

  February 24, 2010

• ‘Wolfman’ leaves nothing much to howl about

  “The Wolfman”

  Rated R for bloody horror violence and gore.

  February 17, 2010

• ‘From Paris With Love’ probably forgettable

  “From Paris With Love”

  Rated R (for strong bloody violence, drug content, pervasive language and brief sexuality).

  February 10, 2010

• ‘Edge’ marks the return of Mel Gibson to film

  “Edge of Darkness”

  Rated R for strong bloody violence, and language.

  February 3, 2010

• ‘Legion’ a mind-numbing experience at best

  “Legion”

  Rated R for strong bloody violence, and language.

  January 27, 2010

• ‘Lovely Bones’ long on screen time, short on focus

  “The Lovely Bones”

  Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images, and some language.

  “The Book of Eli”

  Rated R for some brutal violence and language.

  January 20, 2010

• ‘Daybreakers’ fits into golden age of Vampire cinema

  “Daybreakers”

  Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and brief nudity.

  January 13, 2010

• ‘It’s Complicated’ neither complicated nor original

  No new movie opened this last weekend, so I had to go see a film that had opened the week before.

  January 6, 2010

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