Review Movie Reviews The Film 'Les Miserable' Does The Musical Proud December 25, 2012 Les Miserables is one of the most popular theatrical musicals, with 60 million tickets sold in 42 countries. Producers of the movie version are hoping to attract a lot of those fans, too. They shouldn't have a problem, says film critic Kenneth Turan. The Film 'Les Miserable' Does The Musical Proud Listen · 3:22 3:22 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/168014350/168014329" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Review Movie Reviews 'Zero Dark Thirty': Taking Bin Laden Down December 20, 2012 Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal last teamed up on the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker, set during the Iraq war. The hunt for Osama bin Laden is the subject of their new drama, Zero Dark Thirty. 'Zero Dark Thirty': Taking Bin Laden Down Listen · 2:40 2:40 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/167678922/167683683" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Review Movie Reviews 'The Hobbit' Is 'Solid' But Not 'Exceptional' December 13, 2012 Director Peter Jackson takes his audience back to Middle-earth in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, set in a time before the Lord of the Rings films. 'The Hobbit' Is 'Solid' But Not 'Exceptional' Listen · 3:02 3:02 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/167131146/167135744" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies In 'Hyde Park On Hudson' Murray Captures FDR December 7, 2012 Bill Murray plays Franklin D. Roosevelt in the new movie Hyde Park on Hudson. Critic Kenneth Turan says Murray's work beautifully conveys the notion of the chief executive as seductive star performer who counts on his charm to get his way. In 'Hyde Park On Hudson' Murray Captures FDR Listen · 2:30 2:30 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/166713196/166713181" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies Ken Burns Film Examines 1989 Jogger Case December 3, 2012 Ken Burns' new movie in theaters is The Central Park Five. Five black and Latino teenagers admitted to the rape and beating of a white jogger and served prison sentences. But a startling confession in 2002 by a convicted murderer and rapist whose DNA was present at the crime scene led a judge to overturn their convictions. Ken Burns Film Examines 1989 Jogger Case Listen · 3:07 3:07 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/166377469/166381961" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies Great Director Would 'Not Approve' Of 'Hitchcock' November 23, 2012 Few directors put up as convincing a public mask as Alfred Hitchcock. Few actors are as compelling as Anthony Hopkins, who plays the great man, or Helen Mirren, who plays Alma, his wife. But even with these two Oscar winners, the reviewer says Hitchcock is one portrait of a marriage we could have lived without. Great Director Would 'Not Approve' Of 'Hitchcock' Listen · 2:23 2:23 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/165750076/165754303" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies Daniel Day-Lewis 'Simply Becomes Lincoln' November 9, 2012 Daniel Day Lewis is a two-time Oscar winning actor, but he surpasses himself and makes us see a celebrated figure in unanticipated ways in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. The movie unfolds during the final four months of the president's life as he focuses on getting Congress to pass the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery despite fierce opposition. Daniel Day-Lewis 'Simply Becomes Lincoln' Listen · 2:13 2:13 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/164767091/164767082" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies Movie Review: 'Flight' November 2, 2012 Movie critic Kenneth Turan reviews Flight, starring Denzel Washington. Turan says Washington plays an intriguing — and morally ambivalent — hero. Movie Review: 'Flight' Listen · 3:38 3:38 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/164157361/164157547" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies Chess Prodigies Shine In 'Brooklyn Castle' October 26, 2012 Documentary film has developed a new minigenre in the past few years: kids in competition. In Spellbound it was a spelling bee, and in First Position it was ballet. Now, chess in Brooklyn Castle. Critic Kenneth Turan has this review. Chess Prodigies Shine In 'Brooklyn Castle' Listen · 2:14 2:14 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/163688005/163688288" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies Family Secret Comes To Light In 'The Flat' October 19, 2012 The flat is an apartment in Tel Aviv belonging to the grandmother of director Arnon Goldfinger. When she dies at 98, seven decades after emigrating from Germany, the entire family gathers to decide how to dispose of her possessions. Everything changes with a shocking discovery of a virulently pro-Nazi newspaper. Family Secret Comes To Light In 'The Flat' Listen · 2:25 2:25 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/163224656/163224635" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies Ben Affleck 'Smartly Directs' His New Movie 'Argo' October 12, 2012 Argo tells an incredible true story: How a CIA agent rescued six Americans from the jaws of the Iranian Revolution with a little help from the good folks of Hollywood. Besides directing it, Affleck also stars in Argo. Ben Affleck 'Smartly Directs' His New Movie 'Argo' Listen · 2:40 2:40 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/162767809/162767794" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies Liam Neeson Is The Most Valuable Asset For 'Taken 2' October 5, 2012 At a beefy 6'4", Liam Neeson, the star of Taken 2, certainly looks physically imposing, but he can also act. The counter-intuitive notion of casting someone who can be human and vulnerable as an action hero is what made the first Taken so watchable. Liam Neeson Is The Most Valuable Asset For 'Taken 2' Listen · 2:16 2:16 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/162342320/162347183" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies 'Looper' Is 'Wild' And 'Wears Its Crazy Lightly' September 28, 2012 Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis star as the present and future versions of a skilled assassin in Rian Johnson's mind-bending thriller Looper. Not to be missed is Jeff Daniels, who gives an electric performance as Abe, a man from the future fed up with living in the past 'Looper' Is 'Wild' And 'Wears Its Crazy Lightly' Listen · 2:38 2:38 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/161930462/161934798" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies Eastwood Returns To Acting With A Baseball Drama September 21, 2012 In Trouble with the Curve, Clint Eastwood plays Gus Lobel, a venerable scout for the Atlanta Braves who finds it increasingly difficult to mask the creeping ravages of old age. Gus is a cantankerous coot who trips over furniture because he is on the way to going blind, a condition he understandably tries to hide from his boss Pete, played by John Goodman. Eastwood Returns To Acting With A Baseball Drama Listen · 2:40 2:40 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/161523104/161527575" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Movies 'Ambassador' Spotlights African Corruption September 4, 2012 Danish filmmaker Mads Brugger posed as a diplomat to document rampant corruption in the Central African Republic. If the way Brugger is acting on camera makes us uncomfortable, the film asks, why aren't we doing more to stop it when it happens on a much larger scale. 'Ambassador' Spotlights African Corruption Listen · 2:41 2:41 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/160523130/160526293" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
'Ambassador' Spotlights African Corruption Listen · 2:41 2:41 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/160523130/160526293" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript