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I love and respect Emma Thompson, and if you do as well, you will approach the Nanny McPhee franchise in the proper spirit. Emma Thompson produces and stars in the original and the sequel as the enigmatic, magical Nanny McPhee (“little ‘c’, big ‘P’”), a nanny in the tradition of Mary Poppins who appears [...]

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more apathetic actor right now than Sam Worthington, an Australian whose appearances in Terminator Salvation and the gazillion-dollar-grossing Avatar have inexplicably transformed him into Hollywood’s go-to guy for big-budget CGI extravaganzas, the latest being this adequately entertaining remake of the cheesy 1981 fantasy flick.

Its win for Best Actress aside, The Reader will most likely be remembered as That Holocaust Film With Kate Winslet. But it’s really a story about the power of shame, one that’s well-acted and impeccably shot and yet lacking in any real kind of emotional warmth.
Based on a book by Bernhard Schlink, it starts off [...]