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James Bond has been in the spying business for such a long time that he really ought to be up for a long-service award. But the…

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The second of the two films adapted from J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel begins at the place where the first left us hanging:…

What happens when people are given free reign to do what they want with impunity? When there are no consequences for their actions because…

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When newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) meets homeless, schizophrenic Juilliard-dropout Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. (Jamie…