Weekend Movie Forecast: Body of Lies, City of Ember
gothamist.com - 10th Oct 2008
Leonardo DiCaprio: Ridley Scott's Body of Lies stars
Leonardo DiCaprio as a high strung CIA operative and
Russell Crowe as his duplicitous supervisor who spends his days scheming covert ops from the ironically banal environs of his suburban home. A.O. Scott at the Times wonders: "If terrorism has become boring, does that mean the terrorists have won? Or, conversely, is the grinding tedium of this film good news for our side, evidence of the awesome might of Western popular culture, which can turn even the most intransigent and bloodthirsty real-world villains into fodder for busy, contrived and lifeless action thrillers?"
Sci-fi adventure flick City of Ember is based on an adolescent novel about two teens rebels trying to escape their corrupt, disintegratin
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Movie Review: Body of Lies
CIA spy Roger Ferris is sent to Jordan to find a Middle Eastern terrorist in Body of Lies. Smart but spent, Body of Lies is an American stereotype done up nice.
Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), a CIA agent in Iraq, is reassigned to Jordan to find Al-Saleem (Alon Abutbul), a terrorist threatening to commit attacks all over Europe. Contrary to and against the warning of his successors, Ferris decides to include the Head of Jordanian General Intelligence Department, the well dressed and brilliant Hani Sal
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