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August 17, 2012
New Movie Reviews: ParaNorman, Cosmopolis, and Robot & Frank
This week in theaters, the team behind Coraline returns with the delightful stop-motion zombie comedy ParaNorman.
Read reviews by Jamie S. Rich and Jason Bailey. Robert Pattinson and director David Cronenberg team for a story of anarchy, finance, and haircuts in Cosmopolis. A former jewel their gets back in the game with the help of his robot assistant in Robot & Frank. And director Todd Solondz is back with more of his unwavering misanthropy in Dark Horse. Also out this week: A skeptic investigates paranormal activity at a boarding school in The Awakening, the limits of authority are tested in the tense true-crime drama Compliance, the creators of Perspolis return with the haunting and elegiac Chicken with Plums, Keanu Reeves interviews an all-star cast of filmmakers in the state-of-the-cinema documentary Side by Side, and the riveting music doc Searching for Sugar Man goes into wider release. Be sure to catch our reviews of other recent theatrical films: The Bourne Legacy, The Campaign, Hope Springs, 2 Days in New York, Red Hook Summer, Hari-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Goats, Total Recall, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Celeste and Jesse Forever, The Babymakers, The Watch, Ruby Sparks, Killer Joe, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spider-Man.
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