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Precious
Studio: Lionsgate (1 hr. 49 min.)
Plot: An overweight, illiterate African-American teen in Harlem, whose about to give birth to her second child, is accepted into an alternative school where a teacher helps her find a new life.
Cast: Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Gabourey Sidibe, Sherri Shepard, Lenny Kravitz
Rating: R
Bottom Line: ****
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Studio: Lionsgate
Plot: Three siblings realize they’ve picked the wrong house to rob when they come face-to-face with the quick-tempered matriarch Madea.
Cast: Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian White, Mary J. Blige, Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Boakye, Freddy Sigla
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: ***
Studio: Universal Pictures (2 hours 32 minutes)
Plot: A group of Jewish American soldiers wage a brutal guerilla war against Nazis.
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Jacky Ido, Til Schweiger
Rating: R
Bottom Line: ****
Fragments
Studio:PeaceArch Entertainment
Plot: A group of strangers form a unique relationship with each other after surviving a random shooting at a diner.
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Josh Hutcherson
Rating: R
Bottom Line: **
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Studio: 20th Century Fox (1 hr. 27 min.)
Plot: The Ice Age gang (Scrat, Sid, Manny, Ellie and Diego) discover a lost world of dinosaurs under the ice.
Cast: Vocal talents of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah
Rating: PG
Bottom Line: **
Imagine That
Studio: Paramount (1 hr. 47 min.)
Plot: A financial executive (Eddie Murphy) can’t stop his career from spiraling until he’s invited into his daughter’s imaginary world of fairy princesses.
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Bobb’e J. Thompson, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari Parker, James Patrick Stuart, Yara Shahidi
Rating: PG
Bottom Line: **1/2
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Plot: A mild-mannered subway dispatcher tries to save a train full of hostages.
Cast: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Tuturro, Luis Guzman, James Gandolfini
Rating: R
Bottom Line: ****
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