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    Star Trek

    Putting a much-loved but over-the-hill vehicle back in shape takes more than a new battery and a lick of paint. It demands a full-bore refit, and that's exactly what J.J. Abrams has given "Star Trek."

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    Julia

    Unlike Gena Rowlands' Oscar-nominated turn as the ex–mob mistress who nabs the boy and flees the bad guys, this is not another shopworn remake or even an homage.

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    Love N' Dancing

    It's hard to believe this film got all the way to theatres with the title 'Love N' Dancing', but—as when a waltz or samba is announced—at least one knows what to expect.

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    Little Ashes

    Pattinson is a standout as the sexually ambiguous and wildly quirky Dalí, given to flamboyant costumes, displays of self-importance, and rehearsed affectations.

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    X-Men Origins:Wolverine

    As a producer and the star of this 'X-Men' series spinoff, Hugh Jackman apparently had a lot of creative say in the direction of the story: This hoped-for summer blockbuster is wall-to-wall Wolverine, with little room for others.

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    Ghost of Girlfriends Past

    In this highly unoriginal riff on the premise of Charles Dickens'  'A Christmas Carol', Matthew McConaughey sleepwalks through the kind of fluff that Rock Hudson churned out in the 1950s and '60s.

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    The Soloist

    Like the ethereal Beethoven heard in the film, the lead performances by Jamie Foxx as a homeless musician and Robert Downey Jr. as a newspaper columnist who takes an interest in the musician's plight are sublime.

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    The Informers

    No movie in recent times has pointed up the sad state of what happens to Hollywood careers than "The Informers," Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki's adaptation of Ellis' 1994 novel.

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    The Merry Gentleman

    The title The Merry Gentleman may throw you, as little is merry about this gentleman except that the story takes place at Christmas.

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    An Englishman in New York

    A sequel to 1975's The Naked Civil Servant, this film once again stars John Hurt as gay pioneer Quentin Crisp. An Englishman in New York documents Crisp's fluctuating fortunes after he moved from Britain to New York City soon after the first film (and the book it was ...