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 1.Harry Porter
That Biblical reference is fully intended when considering "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2," the final installment of a movie series that surely owes part of its astronomical success to its rich symbolic underpinnings of sacrifice, resurrection and redemption. Feeling at once like an anti-climax and a spot-on send-off, the ultimate Harry Potter movie embodies all the elements that have made the franchise such a sturdy enterprise, from its cream-of-the-crop British cast to its lavish but unfussy illustration of a story that will always be captured best in readers' imaginations. |
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2. The Tree of Life
The Day of Judgment, prophesied for last weekend, has apparently been postponed, but moviegoers eager for rapture can find consolation — to say nothing of awe, amazement and grist for endless argument — in “The Tree of Life,” Terrence Malick’s new film, which contemplates human existence from the standpoint of eternity. Recently showered with temporal glory at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or, this movie, Mr. Malick’s fifth feature in 38 years, folds eons of cosmic and terrestrial history into less than two and a half hours. Its most provocative sequences envision the origin of the universe, the development of life on earth (including a few soulful dinosaurs) and then, more concisely and less literally, the end of time.
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3.Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Hoult: 'I think interviews can be fine. It’s just there’s this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.
Because this could make up people’s opinions of you.'
"I've been called Colin Firth and Hugh Grant's love child before," jokes Nicholas Hoult self-consciously. Their young co-star has certainly got their quintessentially British art of saying "um" and looking embarrassed down to a T.
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4. The Day After Tomorrow
What if we are on the brink of a new Ice Age?
This is the question that haunts climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid). Hall's research indicates that global warming could trigger an abrupt and catastrophic shift in the planet's climate. The ice cores that he's drilled in Antarctica show that it happened before, ten thousand years ago. And now he's warning officials that it could happen again if they don't act soon. But his warning comes too late.
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5. The Emperors Club - review
The Emperors Club is a movie starring Kevin Kline
and is based on The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin.
Mr. Hundert, a Western Civilization teacher at a
private school for boys in the U.S., educates
his students in the classical studies of Greek
and Roman scholars, but he also believes that it
is his ultimate responsibility as an educator to
mould the characters of his students. He asks his
students, "How will history remember you?" and
teaches his students that "Great ambition and
conquest without contribution is without
significance. "He encourages his students to walk
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 7. Invictus
Invictus is a 2009 biographical drama film based on events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, hosted in that country following the dismantling of apartheid. Directed by Clint Eastwood, the film stars Morgan Freeman as South African President Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as François Pienaar, the captain of the Springboks, the South African rugby union team. The story is based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation. Invictus was released in the United States on December 11, 2009. |
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