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A perfectly plausible, character-driven drama with only one glaring flaw

It's November 4, 2008, and Brooklyn is bristling with anticipation about the impending election returns to see whether or not Barack Obama will be the nation's first African-American president.


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'The Conjuring,' 'Red 2,' 'R.I.P.D. ,' 'Turbo ,' and more

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'Seeing someone getting shot like that, and not getting a chance to say goodbye to his loved ones was painful. I couldn't imagine myself in that situation'

Here, Coogler talks about his critically-acclaimed writing and directorial debut, which has already won awards at both the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals.


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A deceptively-frightening, old-fashioned screamer which does a masterful job of ever so slowly ratcheting up the terror

In 1952, Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) founded the New England Society for Psychic Research. Back then, the couple also began devoting a wing of their home to a museum of occult artifacts they would collect over the course of their long career.


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'Grown Ups 2,' 'Pacific Rim,' 'Fruitvale Station,' and more

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The film unfolds over the course of the last day in the charming 22 year-old's abbreviated life

Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) and his girlfriend, Sophina (Melonie Diaz), were returning to Oakland in the wee hours of the morning after attending a New Year's Eve 2009 celebration when their crowded train was stopped by police in response to a report of a disturbance.

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The visually-captivating sci-fi is most likely to be compared, and favorably, to the Transformers franchise

When an undersea earthquake ripped a massive fissure along a fault line beneath the Pacific Ocean, it left a crevice wide enough for a race of subterranean sea monsters to escape and rise to the surface. Dubbed Kaiju, these Godzilla-looking creatures quickly launched a series of assaults on cities all across the planet.


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'I had to understand the world of the zombie, and familiarize myself with what the end of the world means to my character personally'

Fana's other film credits include supporting roles in Safe House, Inside Story,  State of Violence and Man on Ground, for which he received an Africa Movie Academy Award. Here, he talks about his latest outing opposite Brad Pitt in World War Z where he reunites with Forster as U.N. Deputy Secretary General Thierry Umutoni.


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'Despicable Me 2,' 'Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain,' 'The Lone Ranger ,' and more

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Make no mistake, this flick is all about the witty repartee between the protagonists

So, don't be surprised to shed a few tears as the curtain comes down on this two-fisted tale of female empowerment about a pair of polar-opposite lady lawmen who eventually set aside their differences to get their man while forging an enduring friendship worthy of a sequel.


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