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MOVIE REVIEW: Hereafter

Call it the human condition or whatever you like.  Everyone handles death differently and everyone copes with it differently in very distinctive and personal ways.  In any case, because of those strong personal differences, it is very tough to make a populist, wide-reaching movie about it that everyone can snuggle up together and identify with.  If anyone has the chops to try, it's the great Clint Eastwood with Hereafter.  His newest film follows three parallel stories, each in different countries, of three people affected by death in dramatically different ways.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Inception

Inception may go down as his masterpiece someday, with its ability to take such a huge, wild, and suspenseful concept and pace it was such a deeply affecting emotional story. The powerful relationship between DiCaprio and Cotillard successfully overcomes the heist action to great effectiveness. Between Inception and his continuing work with Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, and Shutter Island earlier this year), DiCaprio is building an impressive resume of compelling psychological performances. He hasn't been that teen heartthrob from Growing Pains, Romeo + Juliet, and Titanic for a long time and it's time for people to take notice, because he might be the best young actor working today.

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