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form of a boy — in this case, hunky Will Blakelee (Liam Hemsworth). It’s no spoil- er to anyone who has seen a Sparks mov- ie, however, that someone gets sick and eventually dies. It’s not hard to make a sad, satisfying movie out of the ingredi- ents assembled here. But it is hard to make a good one. (PG, 107 minutes) Con-
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B LETTERS TO JULIET
Amanda Seyfried seems to be on a one- woman quest to revive the lost art of let- ter writing. Seyfried plays Sophie, a fact- checker for the New Yorker who dreams of becoming a writer. While vacationing in Italy, she wanders into the House of Ju- liet, a place where the lovelorn leave let- ters seeking advice from Shakespeare’s tragic heroine. Although Sophie hasn’t figured it out yet, she herself is among the heartbroken. Her fiance just isn’t that into her. Left on her own, Sophie naturally
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gravitates to the Miss Lonelyhearts at the House of Juliet. After Sophie finds an old letter written in 1957 by a British teen- ager named Claire who had fallen in love with an Italian boy named Lorenzo Barto- lini, she takes it upon herself to reply. Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) soon shows up with grandson Charlie (Christopher Egan)
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MACGRUBER
“Saturday Night Live” cast member Will Forte brings his crime-fighting character, MacGruber, to the silver screen and takes full advantage of an R rating. At the start, we find our hero in a hide-out after the vil- lainous Dieter blew up MacGruber’s wife on their wedding day. MacGruber sur- vived but let the world think otherwise. Now, Dieter is in possession of a nuclear warhead, and the Pentagon wants Mac- Gruber to go after him. Hungry for re- venge, he agrees. After MacGruber acci- dentally blows up his team, he’s dis- missed from the case, but persuades a Pentagon newbie to reinstate him. The two join up with Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) in a bumbling chase after Dieter, the warhead, sweet vengeance, love and sex in a graveyard. The whole package is often lamentably unsubtle. Like a kid banging pots together, it’s a little bit fun- ny, until it’s not. (R, 99 minutes) Contains
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BBMOTHER AND CHILD
Rodrigo García brings his finely calibrated sense of drama to the subject of adoption in this film with characteristic restraint and insight. Annette Bening plays Karen, who gave her baby up for adoption at 15. Naomi Watts plays Elizabeth, Karen’s bio- logical daughter, now a successful law- yer. In a parallel story line, Lucy (Kerry Washington) decides to adopt and meets a potential birth mother named Ray (Sha- reeka Epps). In a series of spiky, highly charged encounters, the filmmaker cre- ates intimate, refreshingly frank portraits of women coming to grips with the joy, grief, unresolved longing and ineffable mystery that make the adoption narrative such an abiding cinematic fascination. García examines Karen’s guilt, Elizabeth’s abandonment issues, the eternal ques- tion of nature vs. nurture, but too often plays into tired stereotypes about adop-
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½star A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
Jackie Earle Haley assumes the Freddy persona made iconic in eight previous “Nightmare” movies by, as this movie
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