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On Demand picks

March 3, 2011

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INVICTUS (Max on Comcast) A strong, sober-sided, largely satisfying entry in a rarely seen genre: the Civic Statuary movie. Morgan Freeman takes a break from playing God to take on Nelson Mandela, bringing his fragmented country together via the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Matt Damon is fine, if opaque, as the team captain. It’s not one of Clint Eastwood’s very greatest films, but it works just fine. (PG-13; runs through March 25) TY BURR

QUANTUM OF SOLACE (Showtime on Comcast) Daniel Craig returns for another stint as James Bond. After the tragic dimensions of “Casino Royale,’’ round two is business as usual, with Bond swinging from one poorly orchestrated set piece to the next. (PG-13; runs through March 23) WESLEY MORRIS

BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (Comcast Movies: Free Movies) A huge, angry howl of a movie about paralyzed Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, whose patriotism moves through hellish pain and disillusion to antiwar activism. Tom Cruise’s go-for-broke intensity as Kovic rides a hot, manic flood of scalding purification. (R; runs through March 25)

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