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The blockbusters bloom early in 2012

Springboard to summer
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 27, 2012

In keeping with the winter that never was, summer comes early this year — on movie screens, at least, if not meteorologically — with the big blockbusters that usually wait until Memorial Day now appearing in March. Like Andrew Stanton's JOHN CARTER (March 9), an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's sci-fi novel about a Civil War soldier (Taylor Kitsch) who finds himself on Mars battling 12-foot-tall barbarians.

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    As seen in David Redmon and Ashley Sabin's somber, sometimes poetic, Fred Wiseman-like documentary, the international model trade ranks just above human trafficking in legitimacy.
  •   REVIEW: WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971)  |  October 10, 2012
    Combining elements of Heart of Darkness , After Hours , and Groundhog Day , Ted Kotcheff's brutally brilliant Outback thriller follows the moral degradation, or perhaps redemption, of a snooty schoolteacher (Gary Bond) traveling from the backwater where he's assigned to Sydney for his Christmas vacation.
  •   REVIEW: SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS  |  October 11, 2012
    As in his debut In Bruges , Martin McDonagh here plays self-reflexive games while undermining the gangster genre.
  •   TY BURR'S GODS LIKE US  |  October 09, 2012
    Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr's provocative new book Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame (Pantheon) traces the evolution of screen idols from Florence Lawrence (the Biograph Girl of 1909 — remember?) to Snooki. But he himself had a rough introduction to the celebrity world.
  •   REVIEW: ARGO  |  October 12, 2012
    There are many heroes in Ben Affleck's spunky, polished political thriller. But the biggest hero is Hollywood itself.

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