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Australia runs just under three hours but feels longer.

Australia is a big giant movie that looks like a good one on the surface but doesn't always work.

Milk is an intelligent, often brilliant, Oscar-level bio-pic starring Sean Penn, as Harvey Milk, the gay rights activist murdered 11 months after being elected to public office in San Francisco in 1977.

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Twilight

Twilight has arrived, and it's a faithful, entertaining, moviegoing event for teenagers.

Slumdog Millionaire is a brilliant, Oscar-contending film that takes place on the streets of India. Jamal grows up homeless and his streetwise survival skills take him all the way to a popular television game show.

Bolt is a cute and cuddly Disney animated movie featuring the voice of John Travolta as the TV star canine who gets separated from his owner Penny, voiced by Miley Cyrus, and must find his way back home.

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As for Daniel Craig, he's deadly serious and the best Bond ever.

Quantum of Solace picks up where the last Bond film left off, and is filled with non-stop action.

Let the Right One In is a knockout foreign language vampire movie from Sweden arriving a week before Twilight.

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Here's a movie to celebrate no matter your age.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is a funny, entertaining sequel to the funny 2005 original. Everyone is back and on board this time, crash landing in Africa, where Ben Stiller's theatrical lion is re-united with his parents.

Synecdoche, New York is part-time brilliant and part-time confusing, starring Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as an unhappy man directing a never ending play about his life. He writes about himself, his failed relationships, and his sadness in life, and then watches it played out in front of him. It's all terribly cerebral and fascinating.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a well-made, compelling film about the Holocaust and two boys on either side of the concentration camp fence. Two children, both curious about each other, and trying to connect.

Role Models is a funny, raunchy new comedy starring Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott as adults forced by the courts to spend 150 hours in community service working with kids.

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Rocknrolla is the best film ever written and directed by Guy Ritchie.

Rocknrolla is a wild, violent, funny gangster movie starring Tom Wilkinson as a British mob boss always after money and always trying to find his drugged out rock and roller son. This is a movie filled with adults who talk tough and cause trouble.

I have never been a fan of slasher movies like Halloween 4 or Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3. What scares me is the unknown, and for the next two minutes you should be afraid, very afraid.

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High School Musical 3 is rated G and features ten new musical numbers, and all of them work.

Fans of the Disney Channel and High School Musical have something to cheer about. Part three is a terrific, energetic, big-screen sendoff to parts one and two.

Changeling is a stressful, difficult, emotional movie based on a true story. It's also an uneven often heavy-handed film from Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood.

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Is W. a hatchet job on the president? Not really, but it's certainly not flattering toward the president or the Bush family.

Welcome to W. and the world of our 43rd president, according to director Oliver Stone. It's also an odd but fascinating new film.

Rachel Getting Married is a brilliant piece of film making about a wedding and a dysfunctional family. Anne Hathaway is perfect as a drug addict home from re-hab for the weekend to take part in her sister's wedding. Rachel is played Oscar-caliber by Rosemarie DeWitt.

Max Payne is a dreadful movie based on a video game starring Mark Wahlberg as a government agent seeking revenge on the death of his family.

The Secret Life Of Bees is an uneven, but mostly a beautiful new film starring Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Hudson as South Carolina runaways in 1964.

Flow is a troubling, enlightened documentary about our planet's third largest industry, water, and how corporations are shutting out poor communities around the world from having access to their own clean valuable source.

Body Of Lies looks great on the surface, but in the theatre, it's a disappointment.

The Express is a predictable, inspirational sports movie that centers on running back Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961. Rob Brown plays the Syracuse University legend, and Texas actor Dennis Quaid plays his coach.

Flash of Genius is a good little movie based on the true story of 1960's family man and engineer Bob Kearns - he invented the intermittent windshield wiper only to have major car manufactures steal his idea.

Billy: The Early Years is an earnest, warm-hearted look at the early life and times of evangelist Billy Graham.

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Nights In Rodanthe is exactly what you think it is, a rainy day romantic tragedy and a five-hankie film.

Nights In Rodanthe is another in a long line of Nicholas Sparks tear-jerkers, this one focused on middle-aged angst starring Diane Lane as Adrienne, a sad mother working all weekend in a Carolinas coastal B & B.

Finally, a good September film, The Duchess stars Kiera Knightly as the 18th century Duchess of Devonshire, living in opulence and married to The Duke, played emotionally aloof and controlling by Ralph Fiennes.

Miracle At St. Anna is a fascinating story, features some strong moments, but overall is a rather messy, uneven, effort from director Spike Lee.

The first 30 minutes of Eagle Eye is exciting and compelling as Shia Labeouf and Michelle Monaghan answer a weird phone call and then spend the next 90 minutes running for their lives.

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Ghost Town is written and directed better than expected by David Koepp.

Ghost Town is a terrible title for a funny, even meaningful film. British actor Ricky Gervais plays an anti-social dentist who begins to recognize ghosts are following him around after his own near-death experience.

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired is a fascinating, well-made documentary about award winning film-director, Roman Polanski, who was arrested in 1977 for giving drugs to and having sex with a minor.

Towelhead is an offensive title to an uncomfortable, immensely disturbing film.

The Women is a big movie-going disappointment considering the all-star cast. Annette Bening plays Sylvia, a New York socialite who breaks the news to Mary, played by Meg Ryan, that her husband is having an affair. Every moment of this film feels like a bad TV sitcom.

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro star in a cinematic piece of garbage, awkwardly titled Righteous Kill.

Up The Yangtze is a profound new documentary about the world's largest dam being built on China's largest river.

You'll either walk out of Burn After Reading or giggle a lot, and of course, I giggled through this minor work of Coen brothers buffoonery.

A woman undergoing plastic surgery inAmerica The Beautiful.

America The Beautiful is not about politics, but rather a well-made documentary about our country's obsession with beauty, even perfection.

A Man Named Pearl is a knock-out documentary about 66-year-old Pearl Fryer, who lives in Bishopville, South Carolina, and without any training, turned himself into the real Edward Scissorhands.

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It's not in the same ballpark as Waiting For Guffman, but Hamlet 2 might make you laugh and just might make you think.

Hamlet 2 is a strange, part-time funny film, but what else would you expect from the writers of South Park and Team America?

Transsiberian is a well-made film that takes place on a train non-stop from Beijing to Moscow.

Fans of ABAA have another reason to rejoice and revisit. Mamma Mia is being re-released this weekend in select theatres across the country in a sing-a-long version.

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Emma Stone, Rainn Wilson, Josh Gad and Teddy Geiger are shown in a scene from The Rocker.

The Rocker is based on a funny idea. One problem, it's surprisingly not funny and features too many cliches.

Elegy is a well-made but oh so melancholy film starring Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley as a college professor hiding from his own age by dating his students, and that includes Consuela, played well by Penelope Cruz.

The House Bunny arrives with low aspirations as a formula comedy about a Playboy bunny who leaves the Mansion to be a sorority mom.

Run to the theatre to see Man On Wire - the stunning new documentary about French tightrope walker, Philippe Petit.

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Ben Stiller (left) and Robert Downey Jr. star in "Tropic Thunder."

You're expecting to see a review of the new Ben Stiller movie "Tropic Thunder" here, right? That's ordinarily a job for Gary Cogill, our movie critic, but he's taking a well-deserved break from darkened rooms and the silver screen this week. So now it's your turn!