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'Epic': Patchwork story line can't keep up with superb 3-D animation

Josh Hutcherson, a native of Union, Ky., provides the voice of Nod, who discovers what it takes to be a true hero in the 3-D animated movie Epic.

Derivative as all get out and plainly concocted by a committee, Epic is a children's animated film that is more entertaining and emotional than it has any right to be.

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Steely Cotillard shines in 'The Immigrant'

Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant."
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Cannes: Dern a leading man again in 'Nebraska'

For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip "Nebraska," Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene Hackman out of retirement and considered the likes of Robert Duvall and Jack Nicholson. Bruce Dern calls them "the obvious guys."
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Man charged with stalking Jennifer Lawrence's kin

A Canadian man is facing charges that he stalked the brother of Jennifer Lawrence after authorities say he repeatedly insisted that the man put him in touch with the Oscar-winning actress so he could protect her, according to court documents.
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'Deceptive Practice' ï¿½ finding meaning in the magic

If you only know Ricky Jay from his side career - as a character actor looming like a sinister talisman in the films of David Mamet, and in other work requiring an enigmatic and sometimes menacing presence - then you don't know the man at all.
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'Love Is All You Need' has feel-good vibe balanced by real-life problems

Susanne Bier, the Danish director who emerged from Lars von Trier's militantly minimalist Dogma school, is hardly known for her rom-coms. Damaged war veterans, paralyzed accident victims, dark family secrets ... not exactly a laff riot.
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Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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Alexander Payne feels at home with 'Nebraska'

Writer-director Alexander Payne has been nominated for three screenplay Oscars and has won two. So what did the man responsible for films including "Election," "Sideways" and "The Descendants" feel about working with someone else's script for the first time?
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WikiLeaks tale goes beyond site founder Assange

LOS ANGELES - When director Alex Gibney began work on his documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," he thought he would be telling the story of a charismatic, silver-haired free speech advocate named Julian Assange, who had exposed dark corners of powerful governments and corporations...
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Adventures in Barrywood: The French need to leave Jerry Lewis alone

There are times when I wish the French hated Jerry Lewis.
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Jesse Eisenberg just might be the smartest actor in the room

ORLANDO, Fla. - Jesse Eisenberg earned an Oscar nomination playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In "Zombieland," he's the narrator who has figured out all manner of "rules" for surviving the zombie apocalypse.