“THE PERFECT FAMILYMOVIE
FOR THE HOLIDAYS. IT’S BIG, 3D FUN!”
Jim Ferguson, ABC-TV TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORP.
“The Chronicles ofNarnia: TheVoyage of the DawnTreader” reunites, from left, Lucy (GeorgieHenley), Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Caspian (Ben Barnes) with their friendAslan.
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This latest venture from “The Brothers Strause” is a special effects experiment in search of a movie. A bunch of attractive 20- somethings party all night and wake up to an unearthly light. Vaporish fireballs fall all over Los Angeles, then people are sucked skyward into beast-ships where we can assume they’re the main course. The wrinkle here is, you look into the light, you’re drawn to it. Eric Balfour is Jared, prepared to stick-like-glue to his newly pregnant girlfriend, Elaine (Scottie Thompson), who joined him to visit Terry (Donald Faison). The survivors of those first abductions bicker or whether to hunker down or make a break for it. Time passes through time-lapse photography as they hide out. They watch a lot of what transpires through a spotting scope through the windows of Terry’s penthouse. That’s indicative of why “Skyline” is an epic fail of a monster movie. There’s no urgency, no close-contact immediacy to it. The group starts as a sextet, shrinks to a quartet, adds a couple of people, loses a couple more. And we don’t care about any of them. (PG-13, 94 minutes) Contains sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, some language, and brief sexual content. At University Mall Theatres.
—Orlando Sentinel GREED CORRUPTION ECONOMIC MELTDOWN RAVING!
rrrrTHE SOCIAL NETWORK When a talky movie’s talk has been written by Aaron Sorkin (“TheWestWing”), and those words have been animated by the visual brio of director David Fincher, what looks on paper like a static series of dead- end conversations comes to life as a vital, engaging, even urgent parable for our age. As the dramatized story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who invented the site in 2003 as a Harvard sophomore, the film can’t be taken as the literal record of events—which involved Zuckerberg being sued by his partners and competitors. Clearly Sorkin and Fincher had higher aspirations for their film.With surgical precision, exhilarating insight and storytelling flair, Sorkin and Fincher bring viewers along on an infectiously giddy journey of discovery and invention, and also manage to infuse Zuckerberg’s story with meaning beyond his own achievements, struggles and flaws. (PG-13, 122 minutes) Contains sexual content, drug and alcohol use and profanity. Area theaters.
—A.H. rrrTANGLED
“Tangled,” Disney’s animated holiday offering, provides further evidence that, with movies continued on 34
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Ann Hornaday, THE WASHINGTON POST “CUTER THAN YOUR AV-ER-AGE FILM!” Francine Brokaw, Los Angeles Family Magazine
“A TREAT FOR ALL AGES.”
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