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Starring: Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy
Director: Bryan Singer
Category: Drama
Rated: PG-13

“Tom Cruise gives one of the best performances of his career” (Jeffrey Lyons, NBC/Reel Talk) in this action-packed film from the director of “The Usual Suspects” and “X-Men”. Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolph Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. Co-starring Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard, “Valkyrie” delivers gripping suspense and pulse-pounding excitement from start to finish. (Publisher)

Summary of critic reviews:

Chicago Tribune: **1/2 (out of four)
New York Post: *** (out of four)
Rolling Stone: **1/2 (out of four)
USA Today: ** (out of four)

Overall: **1/2 (out of four)

Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett
Director: David Fincher
Category: Drama
Rated: PG-13

“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button”, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time. (Publisher)

Summary of critic reviews:

Chicago Tribune: *** (out of four)
New York Post: **** (out of four)
Rolling Stone: *** (out of four)
USA Today: *** (out of four)

Overall: *** (out of four)

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson
Director: Joel Hopkins
Category: Drama
Rated: PG-13

When it comes to love, is it ever too late to take a chance? Academy Award winners “Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are perfect together in a movie that reminds us that true love, can indeed, come to those who wait” (Sandy Kenyon, WABC-TV). “Hoffman and Thompson make a winning combo” (Lou Lumenick, New York Post) in “Last Chance Harvey” as two guarded strangers who find a growing connection with one another after a chance encounter in London. The chemistry between the pair inspires them both to believe in second chances as they unexpectedly transform each other’s lives. (Publisher)

Summary of critic reviews:

Chicago Tribune: **1/2 (out of four)
New York Post: *** (out of four)

Overall: *** (out of four)