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'Iron Man 3' review: Third time isn't quite the charm (Globe, 5/03/2013 12:50 PM)
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Movie review: 'Kon-Tiki' (Globe, 5/02/2013 5:26 PM)
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'Renoir' masters the look of great drama (Globe, 5/02/2013 4:00 PM)
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Movie review: 'In the House' (Globe, 5/02/2013 4:00 PM)
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A fashion history of 'The Great Gatsby' (Globe, 5/01/2013 6:17 PM)
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Costume designer Catherine Martin talks "Gatsby" (Globe, 5/01/2013 6:15 PM)

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MTV Movie Awards
"The Avengers" was the night's big winner, but Kim Kardashian and her baby bump were the talk of the evening.
Affleck rules the Oscars
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Take 2 reviews and podcast
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Best movies of 2012
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Top 50 funniest movies
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Top 50 scary movies
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Ellen DeGeneres to reprise role in 'Finding Nemo' sequel, 'Finding Dory'
Can you speak whale? Well, Dory can, and you may get to see even more of her famous dialect in the upcoming "Finding Dory," slated for a Nov. 25, 2015 release. The bumbling, blue, forgetful tang fish voiced by Ellen......

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Last week's releases


Weekend box office
(Week of April 29/Source: IMDB)
| 1. 'Pain & Gain' |
$20M |
| 2. 'Oblivion' |
$17.4M |
| 3. '42' |
$10.7M |
| 4. 'The Big Wedding' |
$7.5M |
| 3. 'The Croods' |
$6.6M |

Features
Golden Globes highlights and wins
Hosts Tina Fey (left) and Amy Poehler showcased their humor throughout the night. See more highlights.
Hollywood in the Hub
More movie studios are using Boston as their set. Check out star sightings around town.
Top 50 college movies
There are rare American features, which have something to say about the university experience. Here is our list.
Slasher movie countdown
An assortment of lurid, macabre movies that are decidedly not romantic comedies.
Quiz
Which romantic movie character are you?
Answer these 11 questions to see which character from a romantic film you are most like.
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10 great Boston films
Critics Ty Burr and Mark Feeney offer up contenders for the best Boston flick ever.
Featured reviews

Take 2: IRON MAN 3
Third time not quite the charm for 'Iron Man 3'
Iron Man 3 is the weakest in the series, and it suffers from confused plotting, flat-footed exposition, and more pure, noisy nonsense than even a comic-book movie should have to put up with. 

'Kon-tiki'
This Oscar-nominated Norwegian drama (in English) recreates Thor Heyerdahls 1947 crossing of the Pacific on a balsa-wood raft. Its rousing and epic and undercut by compromises onscreen and off.


'Bert Stern: Original Madman'
Stern recorded and defined pop culture and celebrity in the 50s and 60s with his photography. That alone would make this documentary a must-see, not to mention the wild details of his life.

'Renoir'
This leisurely-paced drama about the final years of Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is dramatically trite but visually rapturous.

'No Place on Earth'
In this documentary Janet Tobias tries to tell two stories, but fails to explore the connections between the two narratives, and so does justice to neither.

'In the House (Dans la mansion)'
Voyeurism class is in session throughout this latest film from French provocateur Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool), though theres a willful lack of a payoff.

'Mud'
After a run of dud Hollywood romantic comedies, Matthew McConaughey has found roles that fit his laconic, down-home persona while straying eccentrically outside it.

'Pain & Gain'
This jokey but fatally tone-deaf true-crime caper, starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, plays like "Fargo" for idiots. - Pictures Wahlberg movies
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'Hava Nagila (The Movie)'
This short but lively documentary provides an entertaining examination of the song's cultural and historical origins.

'The Angels' Share'
Ken Loach divides his time between familiar hardscrabble territory and a breezier narrative landscape, a hybrid charming enough to satisfy even the trenchant-commentary crowd.


'The Big Wedding'
Quaint and crass get together with awkward, thoroughly flat results in this ensemble comedy with a tonal cluelessness as surprising as the name cast that signed on for it anyway. 

'Oblivion'
Oblivion is a lot like its star, Tom Cruise: clean, cold, efficient, increasingly overblown, and not a little inexplicable.


'Room 237'
This documentary is a consideration of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" and what it means to a handful of people who have watched it a lot. 

'The Lords of Salem'
Shock-rocker Rob Zombie injects his familiar brand of trippy horror with some dark local color in this portrait of vengeful occult torment that pushes hard to redefine the meaning of witch trials.
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Usher gets ready for role as Sugar Ray Leonard (AP, 5/03/2013 4:05 PM)
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'Iron Man 3' review: Third time isn't quite the charm (Globe, 5/03/2013 12:50 PM)
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Cells to celluloid -- comic book movies (, 5/03/2013 12:00 PM)
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Review: 'Maisie' tasteful with strong performances (AP, 5/02/2013 9:22 PM)
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Movie Stars (Globe, 5/02/2013 7:11 PM)
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Steven Spielberg to direct 'American Sniper' (AP, 5/02/2013 6:40 PM)
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Movie review: 'Kon-Tiki' (Globe, 5/02/2013 5:26 PM)
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Film productions on rise in New Mexico (AP, 5/02/2013 4:04 PM)
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Before there was 'Mad Men'there was this talented madman (Globe, 5/02/2013 4:00 PM)
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'Renoir' masters the look of great drama (Globe, 5/02/2013 4:00 PM)
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Movie review: 'In the House' (Globe, 5/02/2013 4:00 PM)
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Movie review: 'No Place on Earth' (Globe, 5/02/2013 4:00 PM)
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New documentary examines the lives of porn stars (AP, 5/02/2013 3:48 PM)
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Gordie Howe movie focuses on 1st season with sons (AP, 5/02/2013 3:28 PM)
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Stars attend 'The Great Gatsby' world premiere (, 5/02/2013 11:51 AM)
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Studios go direct to fans for social-media boost (AP, 5/02/2013 10:35 AM)
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Capsule reviews of new movie releases (AP, 5/02/2013 7:53 AM)
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A fashion history of 'The Great Gatsby' (Globe, 5/01/2013 6:17 PM)
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Costume designer Catherine Martin talks "Gatsby" (Globe, 5/01/2013 6:15 PM)
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Review: 'Love Is All You Need'? That's all you get (AP, 5/01/2013 3:09 PM)
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IBM makes tiny movie by pushing molecules around (AP, 5/01/2013 8:44 AM)
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Review: 'Iron Man 3' loaded down by heavy metal (AP, 4/30/2013 7:32 PM)
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Woody Allen casts stars Colin Firth, Emma Stone (AP, 4/30/2013 4:01 PM)
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Candice Bergen producing film on her famed father (AP, 4/30/2013 3:22 PM)
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