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Olive (Emma Stone) is a smart, attractive, but not particularly popular high school student. There's nothing obviously wrong with her, but for some reason, boys never notice her. That is, until she...

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127 Hours

It's not often that I see a preview that grabs me as much as the one for "127 Hours" did. Scenery straight out of a Road Runner cartoon, excitement, adventure, and... hey, wait a minute, this isn't...

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Black Swan

Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) is a ballerina with a New York City ballet company. She lives in an apartment with her former-ballerina mother (Barbara Hershey) who smothers her and treats her like a...

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Winter's Bone

Ree is a 17-year-old girl who lives with her mother and two younger siblings in Missouri hillbilly country. For some reason -- if it was explained, I missed it -- her mother is almost comatose so Ree...

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Lost in Pretension

"Somewhere" opens with a lone Ferrari speeding round and round a dirt track. Not just once or twice either. It just keeps driving. And we just keep watching it. Because we have no choice. Eventually...

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Another Year

"Another Year" opens with an incredibly depressed woman (Imelda Staunton, who starred in "Vera Drake") undergoing a doctor-mandated therapy session in order to obtain sleeping pills. This sets the...

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Blue Valentine

Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) are a married couple with a little girl named Frankie who looks to be about three or four. Cindy works as an ultrasound technician. Dean is a...

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The K-K-King's Speech

"The King's Speech" is the true story of George VI (Colin Firth), who was King of the United Kingdom starting in 1936. The title refers to a radio speech which George made in 1939 to announce the...

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Rabbit Hole

At first glance, Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) appear to be the perfect suburban couple, but something doesn't seem quite right. That "something", it turns out, is that their...

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