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Les Misérables: The YouTube Version
For all its stirring moments, Tom Hooper’s film of the blockbuster musical spends too much time shouting at you in closeup
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted: Cirque de Berserk
This DreamWorks animated sequel pushes cartoon mayhem to its insane apogee
Madagascar 3: A Three-Dream Circus
We play hooky from the strained seriousness of the Competition films to enjoy a real, fun movie
Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator: He Has Ways of Making You Laugh
As Borat and Brüno he was the supreme scamp of ambush comedy. Now he channels Gaddafi for his riskiest venture: being kind of sweet
Today’s Movie Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator
Sacha Baron Cohen is back. In The Dictator, his third mildly offensive movie about a heavily accented foreigner, the British comedian plays a Gaddafi-esque tyrant who comes to America and—actually, and then I’m not sure what happens after that. Between all the 9/11 and AIDS jokes in the trailer, it was difficult to discern an …
Hugo: Scorsese’s Magnificent Dream Machine
Turning from violent men to a poignant waif, the director pays luminous tribute to old films—in his best new film of the millennium
