The overly familiar can make for an entertaining ride all the same with the right amount of slick style and intelligent inspiration.

Dysfunctional Friends
By nature a light, disposable popcorn entertainer, but certainly one that is effortlessly likable and enjoyable to experience as it unspools in the moment.

Red Tails
The old fashioned, almost square approach adopted by director Anthony Hemingway and screenwriters John Ridley and Aaron McGruder feels like a corrective to a long-standing cinematic inequity, to finally give these oft-overlooked patriots a retro rah-rah-worthy vehicle of their own.

The Flowers of War
What Zhang Yimou really does best--the epic scale of intimate human emotion.

Don 2
More than a worthy sequel, it is simply an exciting and downright fun thrill ride of a movie, period, and Farhan Akhtar deserves his due as one of the great mainstream film talents currently working anywhere, period.

Luther
There is no performance here more committed than that of the lead, who brings tremendous focus to a character that is, ironically enough, in an ongoing struggle to maintain his.

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• Players
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

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