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‘Battle Creek’ Review: another mediocre cop procedural

When you hear that writers Vince Gilligan (“Breaking Bad”) and David Shore (“House”) have made an original show starring Dean Winters (Mayhem from Allstate) and Josh Duhamel (“Transformers”) with Bryan Singer (“The Usual Suspects”) directing the pilot, you probably get your hopes up for an exciting series.
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‘Inherent Vice’ film review: an incoherent mystery

What does a film involving hippie detectives, neo-Nazis, drug smugglers and a missing rich guy create? Surprisingly nothing that exciting. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (“There Will Be Blood”), “Inherent Vice” is set in 1970 and follows private investigator/hippie Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix, “Her”) who’s hired by his ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston, “Michael Clayton”) to track down her missing current lover, a real-estate mogul named Michael Z. Wolfmann (Eric Roberts, “The Expendables”).
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‘Interstellar’ is science fiction at its mind-bending best

With the excellent “Interstellar,” director Christopher Nolan continues his career-long crusade against mindless moviemaking. This film is an artful, operatic science fiction epic with a potent emotional core. It’s Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Cosmos” on steroids, and my top winter break entertainment recommendation.
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007 goes back to his roots in Skyfall

Illustration by Jay Bowman.  This is the end. Skyfall’s theme song begins with these words. Though you might think it’s melodramatic, it is really the cold, hard facts.  What viewers
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