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Movie Reviews: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Newsarama If you know anything about The Adventures of Tintin, it's probably that it's roughly the comic book equivalent of soccer — hugely popular just about everywhere in the world except America, where it's never really permeated the mainstream. ... See all stories on this topic » Newsarama

'War Horse': The Reviews Are In! MTV.com The most recent is "War Horse," which nabbed two Golden Globe nominations and is likely to garner a slew of Oscar nods, including Best Picture and Best Director (even if the reviews are mixed). The movie, which hit theaters on Sunday (December 25), ... See all stories on this topic »

Book Review: 'The Hammer Vault' Crave Online Anyone who is interested in the history of exploitation movies should have at least a passing knowledge of Hammer studios. And, thanks to Marcus Hearn's new coffee table book The Hammer Vault: Treasures from the Archive of Hammer Films, one can easily ... See all stories on this topic »

Book review: 'Tolstoy: A Russian Life' by Rosamund Bartlett Los Angeles Times A result that, she reports, left even its author "fairly nonplussed" to learn that "most recent reviews were hailing him to be a writer as great as Shakespeare, and that even Dostoyevsky was waving his arms about and calling Tolstoy a 'god of art. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Movie review 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' dark and alluring The Seattle Times But it's refreshing to encounter a film that doesn't talk down to its audience, and its pleasures go far beyond who-said-what-to-whom-when. I first watched the movie without reading the book and enjoyed the plot twists, even as I found much of it ... See all stories on this topic »

We Bought a Zoo (20th Century Fox, PG) Play by Play I feel like I've harped more than usual in my reviews this year on unlikely seeming MPAA ratings, but I'd be remiss to not do it again here: The PG rating this film acquired is surprisingly low, and I think a lot of parents will be in for an unwelcome ... See all stories on this topic »

BOOK REVIEW: 'Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark' Washington Times "I go to the movie, I watch it, and I ask myself what happened to me." According to Mr. Kellow, readers could sense "her visceral reaction to the movies." No second-guessing here. "The best reviews have that exhilarating sense of the flash of her first ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Times

Christmas Weekend Movie Trailers and Reviews: Tattoos, Tintin, Zoos, and More Yidio TV & Movie News Easily the most divisive movie coming out this week (and perhaps the most divisive of the year), this movie adapts the book of the same title to bring the story of a boy dealing with his father's death in the 9/11 attacks to the screen. ... See all stories on this topic » Yidio TV & Movie News

Movie Review: THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN Assignment X By ABBIE BERNSTEIN / Contributing Writer THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN is a curious sort of film. Based on the comic book series by the Belgian writer/artist Herge (real name Georges Prosper Remi, 1