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Movie Reviews

680News film critic, Leslie James, offers his own inimitable take on movies each and every week.

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Nicolas Cage stars as a cop with a fistfull of problems. 680News film critic Leslie James found "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" completely arresting.

Sandra Bullock stars in her third flick of the year, but it's not a comedy. 680News film critic Leslie James said to take in "The Blind Side."

The People's Choice Award Winner at this year's Toronto International Film Festival hits theatres this weekend. 680News film critic Leslie James said you'll be deeply moved by "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire."

The second installment in Stephanie Meyer's extremely popular vampire series makes its leap to the big screen starting Thursday night with select screenings. 680News film critic Leslie James found "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" pretty dim.

The director of "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow" whips up more mayhem on a massive scale. 680News film critic Leslie James said to skip "2012."

Cameron Diaz, James Marsden and Frank Langella team up in a thriller concerning choices, and so much more. 680News film critic Leslie James said to partake of all that's in "The Box."

The director of "Back to the Future," "Forrest Gump" and "The Polar Express" revisists a Charles Dickens classic. Jim Carrey stars in the movie. 680News film critic Leslie James sung the praises of "Disney's A Christmas Carol."

The documentary "Don't You Forget About Me" embraces the lasting impression the late John Hughes made with his teen flicks of the 1980s. 680News film critic Leslie James spoke with the movie's director.

The writing team behind the last three installments of a popular horror series comes up with a fiendish character of their own. 680News film critic Leslie James advised don't attach yourself to "The Collector."

Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Samuel L. Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Charlize Theron, Eugene Levy and Freddie Highmore add their voices to a computer-animated family flick, which is based on a futuristic comic book character that first appeared in the 1950s. 680News film critic Leslie James found "Astro Boy" flawed.

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