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a href=http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Driven_to_Kill/70112806img src=http://cdn-0.nflximg.com/us/boxshots/small/70112806.jpg//abrWhile attending the wedding of his estranged daughter, Lanie (Laura Mennell), crime novelist Ruslan Drachev (Steven Seagal) is drawn back into his Russian mafia past when the groom turns out to be the son of his old nemesis, Mikhail Arban (Igor Jijikine). Soon, Ruslan's in the thick of a violent quest for vengeance in this gritty action thriller, also starring Dan Payne, Mike Dopud and Holly Eglington.
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a href=http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Jack_Squad/70115637img src=http://cdn-0.nflximg.com/us/boxshots/small/70115637.jpg//abrWith an eye on spicing up their dead-end lives, three female friends (Dawnisha Halfkenny, Onira Tares and Patshreba Williams) transform themselves into The Jack Squad, a covert team of thieves who target wealthy men by seducing them and taking them for everything they've got. Their new business venture proves endlessly profitable -- until a local kingpin gets wind of their scheme and promptly asks for his piece of the pie.
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Starring: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow Review: Maybe I'm defining the term "faint praise" by saying that Confessions of a Shopaholic is marginally better than this young year's other chick flicks (Bride Wars, New in Town and He's Just Not That Into You). But it's a treat having world-class charmer Isla Fisher ease us through the film version of Sophie Kinsella's bestseller about — what else? — shopping. Fisher's Rebecca Bloomwood is the perfect fashion junkie for the New Depression. She's Legally Broke. There's even a debt collector on her tail. Those shopaholics from Sex and the City have money to burn. Not Becky. She's got nearly $20,000 in credit-card bills. She so wants to work at Alette, the fashion mag of her dreams, run with an iron hand and an outrageous French accent by Kristin Scott Thomas. But the only job... Rating: 2 Stars

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Starring: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne Review: Consider this a warning to Nazis, dictators, religious fanatics and global terrorists. You just got downsized. There's a new breed of varmint ready to blast it out at the Obama Corral, if that's what it takes to hold tight to their stock options and megabonuses. Yup, I'm talking bankers. That's real evil, baby. Gone are the days when banks were content to simply foreclose on an old lady's mortgage. Wearing Brioni suits, silk ties and the unruffled expressions of the professionally soulless, the bank chiefs in The International are happy to abuse power and our money by financing an arms deal or a revolution or, hell, even a new vacation home. And if they screw up, so what? Even foreign banks with U.S. ties can qualify for a bailout. Welcome to economic Armageddon. The International, a... Rating: 2 Stars

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Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Kei... Review: It's not just the 3-D glasses that add an extra dimension to the horror and hilarity of Coraline. For those who can't see themselves forking over hard cash to stare at a cartoon about an 11-year-old brat (Dakota Fanning voices Coraline) whose neglectful parents (Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman) move her to a remote part of Oregon, let me say this: Director Henry Selick, the magic man behind The Nightmare Before Christmas, did the dazzling stop-motion animation. Neil Gaiman (Sandman), a rock star among graphic novelists, wrote the story. And if that doesn't grab you, think of what Japanese anime genius Hayao Miyazaki did with another little-girl story in the Oscar-winning Spirited Away. Coraline isn't in that class, but Selick and Gaiman will take you — and Coraline — for a certified... Rating: 3 Stars

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Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Katie Cassidy, Famke Janssen, Xander B... Review: What's a father to do when his virginal teen daughter (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped in Paris and sold off to a white slavery market? If the father in question is Liam Neeson as CIA agent Bryan Mills he becomes a one-man killing machine, going medieval on the ass of every fool who stands in the way of his personal rescue mission. It's fun for about 15 minutes seeing Neeson do James Bond as Daddy Dangerous. But the surprise wears off quickly. I suspect this guilty pleasure, directed at whiplash speed by Pierre Morel, will go down much easier on DVD with a few beers and a slice of pizza with extra cheese. Rating: 2 Stars

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Starring: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, Yuki Matsuz... Review: Wasn't it bad enough the first time (back in 2006) gaping at Steve Martin trying to clone the stumbling gait and terrible French accent of the great Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau? There has to be a sequel? Except for the unholy god of box office, there is no reason to do it again. Martin is a gifted physical comic. He deserves an original role tailored to his own talents. Watching something this borrowed just makes me blue. Rating: 1 Stars

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Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly,... Review: Are women desperate or just desperately stupid? This is the misogynist question at the core of He's Just Not That Into You, a women-bashing tract disguised as a chick flick. I mean really, will women actually line up this weekend to see themselves treated as pawns in a man's stupid game? I hope not. This toxic wisp of a movie is based on a toxic wisp of a book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo that was itself based on a toxic wisp of a throwaway line they wrote for TV's Sex and the City. Be careful — the movie attempts to look harmless. Check out the film's narrator Gigi, played by too-smart-for-the-part Ginnifer Goodwin, who is so good on HBO's Big Love. There's perky Gigi mooning over a decidedly uninterested real-estate tool named Conor (Kevin Connolly) while taking... Rating: 1 Stars

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