Filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt by the Sun) decided to remake Sidney Lumets social drama 12 Angry Men and recast it as the story of a Russian jury deciding the guilt of a young Chechen man charged with murdering his Russian army officer stepfather.
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Saying 16 Blocks is Richard Donner's least flatulent, most efficient film is saying little, but in his dotage Donner has abandoned his Six Million Dollar Man-trained blunt-force trauma and bends with the flow of the DV-era river, keeping his new movie relatively small-boned, hand-held, on-location savvy, and free of in-jokes.
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Raj (Shahid Kapur) and Priya (Kareena Kapoor), recent arrivals in Bangkok, befriend the missing son of Madam Sushmita, who owns one of Bangkok's largest casinos.
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Squeaky-clean honeymooners Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich go backpacking on a remote Hawaiian island but find themselves sharing the trail with two other couples.
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Morally irreproachable and flat as a pancake, Michael Apted's Amazing Grace is set among bickering House of Commoners in late-18th-century London, but the movie belongs squarely in the blooming subgenre of Whites Saving Dark-Skinned Victims of Empire.
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Writer-director Courtney Solomon has taken a tantalizing footnote from America's haunted past -- a ghost story fascinating precisely for its grounding in historical record -- and reduced it to another tame, lame serving of PG-13 shocks.
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Shekhar (Aftab Shivdasani) and Nandita (Ameesha Patel) have been happily married for years... until the day Kavya Krishna (Esha Deol), beauty queen and Bollywood star extraordinaire, enters their lives.
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Lars von Triers psychosexual horror/art melodrama sends grieving parents Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg to a cabin deep in the primeval forest to thrash out their feelings over the death of their young son.
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Dumb Australian epic pits the snooty English landlady of a cattle station (Nicole Kidman) and her studly hired hand (Hugh Jackman) against unforgiving nature, conniving beef barons (David Wenham, Bryan Brown), the Japanese navy, and inbred white Aussie racism in their effort to build that little love nest/empire in the Northern Outback.
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Restorative justice programs may offer the best new hope for reducing violence in Oakland schools and the city overall, but their future funding is uncertain.
Restorative justice programs may offer the best new hope for reducing violence in Oakland schools and the city overall, but their future funding is uncertain.
Some Oakland politicians and groups are pointing to research by UC Berkeley faculty as proof that the city needs to add hundreds of police officers, but other studies contradict that conclusion.
Restorative justice programs may offer the best new hope for reducing violence in Oakland schools and the city overall, but their future funding is uncertain.