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In his most demanding role yet, Viggo Mortensen is the face of determination in the midst of desolation
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‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’
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‘Red Cliff’
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‘Ninja Assassin’
‘Old Dogs’
Last week's releases
‘Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire’
‘Bronson’
- ‘The Messenger’
- ‘Black Dynamite’
- ‘The Blind Side’
‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’
- ‘Planet 51’
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Weekend box office
(Week of Nov. 20/Source: IMDB)
| 1. 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' |
$141M |
| 2. 'The Blind Side' |
$34.5M |
| 3. '2012' | $26.5M |
| 4. 'Planet 51' |
$12.6M |
| 5. 'A Christmas Carol' |
$12.2M |
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Anderson's wit and warmth lift ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’
By forgoing actual human beings, the director has made his most charming, least annoyingly fey film — a thing of lovely comic wisdom. 
‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’
Nicolas Cage thoroughly inhabits the character's exhilarating madness in William Herzog's film.
‘The Road’
Viggo Mortensen, left, and Kodi Smit-McPhee are father and son traveling a barren, post-apocalyptic landscape in the film, adapted from the novel by Cormac McCarthy.
‘Old Dogs’
The movie is a pitiful family comedy about two aging buddies forced to play daddy. It has the feel of a project that was made in a spirit of collegial fun and finished in a rush of desperation.
‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’
Where the first film's director, Catherine Hardwicke, plugged into Meyer's vision of supernatural teenage lust with abandon, Chris Weitz is stuck with a sequel that's a morning-after mope-fest.- Weekend box office: 'New Moon' earns $141M
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‘Precious’
This movie catalogs a wealth of human ugliness. It's even been made to look ugly, presumably to underscore the horror movie that is Precious's life. But "Precious," in its own way, is a work of astonishing joy
‘The Messenger’
In the film, a forcefully acted and peculiar emotional drama, we ride shotgun with Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) and Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) as they inform loved ones that their child or significant other has died in battle.
‘The Blind Side’
It may be based on a true story, but the movie, starring Sandra Bullock, delivers two heart-yanking hours of Hollywood physics. 
‘Planet 51’
The animated film is a cargo-cult movie - a piece of pop-culture flotsam that exists by scavenging pieces of other, better films. 
'2012'
Roland Emmerich's movie writes a new chapter in the destruction manual. John Cusack is the regular guy trying to avoid the apocalypse.- Blog Weekend box office: '2012' rakes in $65 million
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‘A Christmas Carol’
Director Zemeckis makes a leap in creative visualization with a stunning, fresh retelling of the Dickens classic.- Blog Weekend box office: Bah, humbug; Hooray, 'Precious'
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- King Kong figurine used in 1930s movie sold in UK (AP, 11/24/09)
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