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Entwined at a Japanese Shrine, the Nobility and Horrific Brutality of War Download New movies Li Ying’s “Yasukuni” begins with a visit to the workshop of Naoji Kariya, a 90-year-old swordsmith with a handsome, finely etched face and powerful, graceful hands. Mr. Li, a Chinese-born filmmaker who has lived in Japan for much of the [...]
Bottom Line: A genuinely unexpected twist highlights an otherwise gimmicky, formulaic suspense thriller. Like a street-corner con daring rubes to bet on his shell game, writer-director David Twohy throws down a challenge to viewers in his suspense thriller “A Perfect Getaway”: See if you can spot the killers — and the victims. You’ll probably lose [...]
Bottom Line: “Ghost” meets “Love Story” meets “Back to the Future” — too much meeting and not enough emotional truth. A shrewd screen adaptation by “Ghost’s” Bruce Joel Rubin has put Audrey Niffenegger’s novel “The Time Traveler’s Wife” on speed dial so that the heart of her time-leaping romance remains intact while all its superfluous [...]
