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Review | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (PG) **

The 3D's cool, but the story's only tepid

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Lee's 'Right Thing' plus 20; fickle Phoenix at his best

Like people at a class reunion everyone actually wants to attend, the cast and crew members Spike Lee interviews on the half-hour ''20 Years Later'' feature included in the Do the Right Thing 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray (Universal, $30; DVD, $20) seem really proud of the film and happy to reminisce about their work.

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BIG SCREEN OPENING WEDNESDAY Public Enemies (R) -- Johnny Depp is the notorious bank robber John Dillinger, and Christian Bale is Melvin Purvis, the FBI man who brought him down, in director Michael Mann's sweeping crime epic, which is rumored to be more substance than action (think The Insider, not Collateral).

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Director Sam Mendes examines brighter side of relationships

In last year's downbeat Revolutionary Road, director Sam Mendes explored the implosion of a marriage between people who, through no fault of theirs, had grown terminally apart. Six months later, he is back with another movie about marriage, but this time he's in a much more optimistic mood.

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Movie review | Away We Go (R) ***

There's no place like home

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Review | Whatever Works (PG-13) ***

Supporting cast, funny one-liners make it work

AMERICAN BLACK FILM FESTIVAL

American Black Film Festival comes back to Miami

After two years in California, the American Black Film Festival is returning to Miami -- with a slightly new look.

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Review | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13) **½

Effects are smashing, but story wears thin the second time around.

For the love of film: Dana Keith realized a decades-long dream with Miami Beach Cinematheque

The seats at the Miami Beach Cinematheque, the cozy oasis for movie lovers on Española Way, are not arranged in parallel lines, as in most theaters. Instead, the rows have been installed in a V pattern around the screen, so at any moment you can turn and watch the faces of fellow viewers as clearly as you can see the movie.

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BIG SCREEN OPENING WEDNESDAY: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13) -- This is the big one, the big kahuna, the movie expected to rule the summer box office. Director Michael Bay follows up his surprisingly effective smash hit from the summer of 2007 with the second of an expected trilogy of films about giant robots from outer space that can turn into cars and the befuddled teenager (Shia LaBeouf) who befriends them.

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Review | Year One (PG-13) **

It's so lazy, even a caveman would boo it

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Review | Food, Inc. (R) ***

Hard to stomach, but go see it

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Review | Proper Eyes (Sus ojos propios) (unrated) ** ½

Engaging tale, but don't look too close

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Bergman classic gets high-tech treatment

Max Von Sydow's chess game with Death is one of the most iconic scenes in all of cinema, and rarely has it looked better than the way it appears on the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray release of The Seventh Seal ($40, also on DVD).

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A look at the week ahead in movies and TV

BIG SCREEN The Proposal (PG-13) -- The trailers for this romantic comedy about an executive (Sandra Bullock) who forces her underling (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her so she can avoid deportation, seem to give away the plot, from beginning to end. Here's hoping the movie harbors some kind of twist ending to juice things up. Like maybe one of the pair was really dead all along! Or maybe she's really a he!

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Movie review | The Taking of Pelham 123 (R) **

Subway hostage drama remake's subpar

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Review | Tyson (R) ***

Mike fights back as himself

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Up close and personal with the cast of `The Shield'

Like extended family gatherings you look forward to attending, each of the 13 episodes on the four-disc The Shield Season 7: The Final Act (Sony, $60) comes with a commentary track by the cast and crew. The tracks not only give you an excuse to revisit the series' memorable final year, but illustrate just how harmonious a unit the show's creators had become.

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The man behind that familiar face

What's the biggest difference between a character actor and a leading man? ''About 15 to 20 million dollars,'' says veteran actor Luis Guzman. ``And a private jet.''

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BIG SCREEN The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (R) -- Denzel Washington (as a New York City subway dispatcher) and John Travolta (as a baddie holding a train's worth of passengers hostage) take over for Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw in this remake of the 1974 classic. Directed by Tony Scott (Domino, True Romance), who unloads all his trademark camera pyrotechnics on what is essentially a feature-length conversation between two men via short-wave radio, peppered by bits of action.

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Review | The Hangover (R) ***

Boys behaving badly is good for once

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Movie review | Romance (Unrated) ***

Real life imitates play about love and suffering

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Review | Land of the Lost (PG-13) *½

Will Ferrell gets lost among tired gags

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Review | Little Ashes (R) **

Robert Pattinson -- before stardom, boredom

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Secrets of 'Revolutionary Road' revealed

New DVD releases due in stores on Tuesday: Revolutionary Road: On the audio commentary track accompanying his film, director Sam Mendes states that his first cut was much more ''reverential'' to Richard Yates' 1961 novel but that he eventually reedited the movie -- and took a few liberties with the structure -- to help give it identity and feel.

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The week ahead in movies and TV

BIG SCREEN The Hangover (R): May is too early to proclaim any movie the funniest of the year, but for sheer lowbrow, R-rated antics, filmmakers will have a hard time topping director Todd (Old School) Phillips' raucous comedy. It's about four friends (including Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms) who must retrace their steps the morning after a long night of hard partying in Las Vegas and figure out, for example, why there's a tiger in their bathroom.

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Review | Up (PG) ****

'Up' has Pixar soaring to new heights

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Movie review | Drag Me to Hell (PG-13) ***

Eyeballs fly in this goofy blast.

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Review | The Brothers Bloom (PG-13) **½

Fanciful, funny crime caper marred by a dose of drama

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DVD reviews | Digging around for relics, a missing scientist

New DVD releases due in stores on Tuesday: The Devil's Tomb (2009): When the scientist (Ron Perlman) in charge of a top-secret Middle East archaeological site suddenly goes missing in this action-packed, apocalyptic thriller, a super-elite military unit led by Captain Mack (Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr.) is drafted to launch a search-and-rescue effort. But Mack and his men don't get far into the cradle of civilization before they are confronted by an ancient, perhaps otherworldly evil lying beneath...

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Director Sam Raimi jumps back into the gore

Sam Raimi is certainly not the first filmmaker to have gotten his start making low-budget horror pictures before becoming a Hollywood big shot. But he is one of the few to have jumped headlong back into the breach -- not out of a need to rev up a stalled career but simply from desire.

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A look ahead at the week in TV and movies

BIG SCREEN OPENING FRIDAY Up (PG): Judging by the reactions following Up's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last week, the Pixar Animation wizards have cranked out another winner with this story of a 78-year-old curmudgeon (voiced by Ed Asner) who ties thousands of balloons to his house and floats away to the wilds of South America.

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Review | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (PG) *

Gosh, haven't we seen this before?

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Review | Terminator Salvation (PG-13) **

Save us from this dour, bum-out new Terminator

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The old 'Star Trek' films get the hi-def treatment

Every reboot of a longstanding movie franchise brings a home video component,and Star Trek is no exception. With the new film currently drawing huge theater crowds, Paramount Pictures has dusted off the first six Trek films and given them their hi-def debut on Blu-ray.

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Outrage director sad we're still debating gay rights

Although the documentary Outrage focuses on present-day politicians and the battle for gay rights, there's a reason why director Kirby Dick decided to cede the film's final scene -- and its last word -- to the late Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay people elected to public office in the 1970s.

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A look ahead at the week in TV and movies

A look ahead at the week in movies and TV: BIG SCREEN OPENING THURSDAY Terminator Salvation (PG-13) -- The director known only as McG (Charlie's Angels) takes over the reins of the lucrative franchise for this post-apocalyptic tale, set in 2018 and depicting the war between man and machine that kick-started the entire saga. Christian Bale (whose expletive-laden rant on the set of the film is already the stuff of legend), Sam Worthington and Helena Bonham Carter are the folks fighting to save mankind...

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Review | Angels & Demons (PG-13) **

More action, less talk than 'Da Vinci Code'

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Review | Hunger (unrated) **½

A true and literally gut-wrenching tale