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  Justin Souther | 04/16/2013

  Genre: Sports Biopic

  Director: Brian Helgeland (The Order)

  Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni

  The Story: The tale of Jackie Robinson and the hardships he faced breaking baseball’s color barrier. The Lowdown: A basic biopic that’s too straightforward and heavy-handed, but perfectly solid if you’re looking for nothing more than an uplifting sports-crowd-pleaser.

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• The Place Beyond the Pines (R)

  

  

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  Justin Souther | 04/09/2013

  Genre: Drama

  Director: Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine)

  Starring: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Dane DeHaan, Emory Cohen, Ben Mendelsohn

  The Story: Three stories — involving a dirt-bike-riding bank robber, a small-town cop and their respective sons — intersect. The Lowdown: An often flawed, overlong drama that remains worthy of attention because of its humanely drawn characters and sheer ambition.

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• The Croods (PG)

  

  

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  Ken Hanke | 03/26/2013

  Genre: Animated Adventure

  Director: Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon) and Kirk De Micco (Space Chimps)

  Starring: (Voices) Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener, Ryan Reynolds, Cloris Leachman, Clark Duke

  The Story: A Stone Age family must learn how to adapt to a drastically changing world that threatens to become — literally — a thing of the past. The Lowdown: Spectacular-looking, exciting and (I dare say) even moving animated film with extremely good voice casting. It's nothing at all like the film the trailer suggests and even though it's not Chris Sanders' earlier Lilo & Stitch or How to Train Your Dragon, it's still very good indeed.

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• Olympus Has Fallen (R)

  

  

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  Ken Hanke | 03/26/2013

  Genre: Jingoistic Revenge Action

  Director: Antoine Fuqua (Training Day)

  Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Dylan McDermott, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo

  The Story: Renegade North Korean terrorists take over the White House and one Secret Service agent must save the president — and possibly the United States itself. The Lowdown: Preposterous, yet utterly predictable, nasty little jingoistic thriller with bad special effects. Loud, mean-spirited, fairly appalling Die Hard rip-off that will probably make a fortune.

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• Bottle Shock (PG-13)

  

  

  Ken Hanke | 08/27/2008

  Genre: Fact-Based Comedy-Drama

  Director: Randall Miller (Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School)

  Starring: Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Rachael Taylor, Freddy Rodríguez, Dennis Farina

  The Story: A Brit wine snob with a failing shop in Paris arranges a blind wine-tasting competition between French and California wines -- with an all-French panel of experts. The Lowdown: Based on fact and drowned in TV-movie level dramatic embellishments, this little indie offering has one thing going for it -- Alan Rickman -- and he may be enough.

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