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  Steven Soderbergh’s new thriller ‘Side Effects’ plays head games

  The director’s latest film is a playful puzzle - with a body count
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  STAND-UP GUYS (R)

  Stand-Up Guys (R)

  In their youth, Val (Al Pacino), Doc (Christopher Walken) and Hirsch (Alan Arkin) were master thieves and con artists, loyal foot soldiers for a fearsome gangster. Today, though, things are different. Doc spends his days painting sunsets in his cramped apartment. Hirsch is tucked away inside a retirement home connected to an oxygen tank for his emphysema. And Val is just getting out of prison after a 28-year sentence, having taken a hit for the team after a job went wrong.
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  Miami International Film Festival unveils the 2013 lineup

  Miami Dade College is blowing out the doors for the 30th anniversary of the Miami International Film Festival, running March 1-10. The school, which presents the annual event, has lined up a whopping 117 feature-length and 12 short films from 41 countries, one of the largest slates in the festival’s history.
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  AMOUR (PG-13)

  Amour (PG-13)

  At the start of Michael Haneke’s rigorous, heart-rending Amour, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are in their 80s but still vital and connected and in love. They are cultured and erudite — they’re retired music teachers — and their minds remain sharp and clear. They attend a piano recital by one of their former students, then come home and engage in the sort of comfortable small talk that is the privilege of people who have spent their entire lives together and haven’t grown tired of each other. “Did I mention you looked very pretty tonight?” Georges asks Anne. Over breakfast, he tells her a story from his youth she had never heard before: They’re still discovering each other, like young lovers, all these years later.
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  movies

  Sylvester Stallone lures director Walter Hill back to work for ‘Bullet to the Head’

  ‘Bullet to the Head’ is Walter Hill’s first film in a decade.
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  ZERO DARK THIRTY (R)

  Zero Dark Thirty (R)

  The ironic thing about Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow’s gripping, harrowing procedural, is that the movie was originally intended to be about the CIA’s unsuccessful search for Osama bin Laden. Screenwriter Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) was already deep into his script in May 2011 when the elusive terrorist was shot and killed in a Pakistani compound by U.S. Navy SEALs.
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  Jessica Chastain on the making of ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

  Playing a female CIA agent on the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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  Herald Movie Yearbook 2012

  The best and worst of the year in film.
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  The best movies of 2012

  A great year for film.
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  Movies

  Tarantino talks ‘Django Unchained’

  A violent western set against the backdrop of slavery.
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  Florida Film Critics go with ‘Argo’

  The thriller wins three awards, including Best Picture; ‘Lincoln’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ win the acting categories.
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  Peter Jackson returns to Tolkien with ‘The Hobbit’

  Peter Jackson goes back to Middle-earth for the first in a trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit.’
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  Film Festival

  Creators have big plans for 8th Borscht Film Festival

  The eighth edition of the event showcases movies shot in Miami by local and visiting filmmakers.
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  THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (unrated)

  The House I Live In (unrated)

  The House I Live In, director Eugene Jarecki’s vital, expansive documentary on America’s war on drugs, takes the same top to bottom approach as HBO’s The Wire: Everyone from federal judges to street-corner dealers are given a voice and an opportunity to weigh in. Even David Simon, who created The Wire and was a former crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun, shows up to address a situation that seems to have no possible beneficial outcome: Since 1971, more than $1 trillion and 45 million arrests later, the rate of drug use in the U.S. remains unchanged. Only the substances being abused have changed.
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  Movies

  ‘Skyfall’ ranks high in the 007 franchise

  How director Sam Mendes made changes – good ones – to the Bond formula.
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  WRECK-IT-RALPH (PG)

  Wreck-It-Ralph (PG)

  The characters in Wreck-It-Ralph all have day jobs: They just happen to be characters in video games, re-enacting the same roles in the same universe over and over again, like stock players in a theatrical company. Some, like Mario and Pac-Man and Sonic are heroes; others, like the hulking but kind-hearted Ralph (John C. Reilly), are bad guys, relegated to smashing and destroying buildings and public property of a popular vintage arcade machine until the player runs out of quarters.
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  CAFÉ DE FLORE (unrated)

  Café de Flore (unrated)

  In 2011 Montreal, the DJ Antoine (Kevin Parent) is about to turn 40. He is successful, healthy, has two beautiful daughters and is in a loving relationship with Rose (Evelyne Brochu), who he is preparing to marry. In 1969 Paris, Jacqueline (Vanessa Paradis) is raising her son Laurent (Marin Gerrier), who was born with Down syndrome. She has read that the boy’s life expectancy is 25, but she is determined he will live to be an old man, and she devotes her life to him.
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  Movies

  The arcade strikes back

  Disney’s “Wreck-It-Ralph” makes heroes out of forgotten video game characters.
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  Movies

  Robert Zemeckis takes ‘Flight’

  The director returns to live-action film for the first time since 2000’s ‘Cast Away’
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  Nonfiction

  Review: ‘Marvel Comics: The Untold Story’ is a marvel

  A gripping behind-the-scenes tale of Marvel delves into the cutthroat big business of comics

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