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BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • February 15, 2013 1:00 AM
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If you want to attract a young audience with a love story these days, it seems you have to make the leading characters zombies or vampires or anything but the boy and girl next door. That’s the case with "Beautiful Creatures," although I don’t see how that title applies to the film in question,
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More: Film Reviews, Richard LaGravenese, Beautiful Creatures, Alice Englert, Alden Ehrenreich, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson

The Words

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • September 7, 2012 2:19 PM
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There’s a compelling idea at the core of 'The Words', especially as acted out by Bradley Cooper and the incomparable Jeremy Irons, but it’s nearly extinguished by the material that surrounds it, sorry to say. The premise is solid: a struggling writer chances upon a long-lost manuscript and publishes it as his own.
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Margin Call—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • October 21, 2011 4:15 AM
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Margin Call manages to put a human face on the current economic crisis—but I wish it was as good as its trailer, which is forceful, well-edited, and dramatically scored. The film itself has many good qualities, and an exceedingly strong cast, but it’s a bit dry.

The setting is a major investment bank in Manhattan, where the story is set in motion by a series of peremptory firings. As risk-management specialist Stanley Tucci is escorted out of the office he gives some information to his protégé, Zachary Quinto (and, curiously, the security guard doesn’t stop him), urging him—

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