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Film tips & film trailersVisit filmtips.com for the latest trailers available on Youtube . You probably will add it to your favorites once you visited this video site Film tips trailers & Brief Film Reviewsfound at .indyweek.com opening JANUARY 9, 2008 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly—Painter-turned-filmmaker
Julian Schnabel adapts the international bestseller in which French magazine
editor Jean-Dominique Bauby described falling victim to a rare condition known
as "locked-in syndrome." Able to move only his left eye, Jean-Do
learns to communicate by blinking and thereby writes his acclaimed memoir.
Rather than moral uplift, Schnabel's version emphasizes first the sensory
strangeness of Bauby's experience and then the difficult process of adjustment;
the lengthy sequences of his learning to communicate will strike different
viewers as fascinating or tiresome.
FIRST SUNDAY—Two inept criminals (Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan) cook up
a scheme to rob a church. Things don't go quite as planned. Rated PG-13.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS—How is it exactly that Alvin, Simon and
Theodore are transplanted from their lifelong forest home to the big city
already equipped with an awareness of Christmas, the ability to operate sundry
household gadgets and a knowledge of the lyrics to songs by Daniel Powter and
Pussycat Dolls? Rated PG. —NM
ATONEMENT—As the annual awards-season serving of British Drawing Room
Drama, Joe Wright's burnished, gorgeous literary adaptation of Ian McEwan's
acclaimed novel is a superb exemplar of the technical craft of filmmaking
overshadowing the importance of a sound, seamless narrative underpinning.
Besides some fine performances from James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, Wright's
creative camerawork and sublime attention to detail keep the film afloat through
a complex storyline that eventually slides into banality and a slapdash attempt
to dissect the oft porous barrier separating fiction and reality, which exists
in both the hands of an artist and the minds of the audience. Rated R. —NM
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD—With a gritty urban energy that
recalls his own Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico and Prince of the
City, veteran director Sidney Lumet traces the dreadful consequences of a
misbegotten crime mounted by two suburban New York brothers, world-class
screw-ups played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke. Though Kelly
Masterson's ambitious script relies too heavily on fashionable time-chopping,
the film is unique among recent crime dramas for achieving the force of tragedy.
Rated R. —GC
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR—Topnotch Hollywood moviemaking, Mike Nichols'
geopolitical comedy tells the true story of a dissolute Texas congressman who,
in the 1980s, takes on as a personal crusade aiding the Afghan resistance to
Soviet occupation. Aaron Sorkin's funny, fast-paced script provides a wonderful
platform for Tom Hanks as the bibulous Wilson, Julia Roberts as his sultry
right-wing benefactress and Philip Seymour Hoffman as his man in the CIA. Rated
R. —GC
ENCHANTED—Amy Adams gives an energetic performance as a cartoon fairy
tale princess sent to the real world, but the film doesn't really explore the
possibilities of its premise. And how many times can James Marsden not get the
girl? Rated PG. —ZS
THE GOLDEN COMPASS—This adaptation of Philip Pullman's "anti-Narnia"
novel, about a young girl (Dakota Blue Richards) who battles an evil adult
conspiracy in an alternate universe, rushes through the book's storyline.
Nonetheless, director Chris Weitz delivers many entertaining and exciting
moments, but his effort to cram the story into a single film means the book's
thrilling and heartbreaking ending is cut for something more upbeat. Rated
PG-13. —ZS
THE GREAT DEBATERS—For his sophomore directing effort, Denzel
Washington tracks the triumph of the 1935 all-black debate team from Texas'
Wiley College over Jim Crow-era segregation. Washington's direction lags far
behind his usual fine work in front of the camera, here as debate coach,
professor and legendary poet Melvin B. Tolson. The earnest, formulaic script
conveniently assigns to Wiley the "correct" side of every debate: It
is not hard to sound inspired when you are arguing in favor of welfare, school
integration, civil disobedience and economic equality. Rated PG-13. —NM
I AM LEGEND—Will Smith does solid work in this polished, tense,
big-budget remake of the '70s Charlton Heston-starrer The Omega Man,
about a man left alone in a city—except for hordes of night-feeding zombies—after
a global plague. Although anticipated by 28 Days Later and Vanilla Sky,
the views of a depopulated Manhattan are spectacular and suitably eerie. While
Smith has few human costars, he gets nice support from a German shepherd.
Directed by Francis Lawrence. Rated PG-13. —GC
JUNO—Imbued with a rapid-fire, Gen-Y argot, Diablo Cody's script not
only tackles touchy life lessons without sanctimony but also finds hilarity as a
so-called "teenage comedy" without the crutch of defiled desserts or
an endless string of profane Apatowisms. Of course, it helps when your dialogue
is being delivered by Ellen Page, who, at age 20, realizes the potential only
hinted at in 2005's Hard Candy. As the self-styled "smartest person
in the room," Juno must come to grips with the film's overarching theme
that maturity is not merely a reluctant acceptance of responsibility, but
instead the reclassification of cool. Rated PG-13. —NM
THE KITE RUNNER—Khaled Hosseini's mega-bestseller about friendship,
guilt and modern Afghanistan gets a sensitive, skillful screen translation in
Marc Forster's handsome drama. Though filmed with Hollywood scale and budget,
the film stays true to its source, and Forster works wonders with his cast,
especially the young actors. Rated PG-13. —GC
NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS—Everyone loves a treasure hunt, and
Nicholas Cage leads a landmark-heavy jaunt stretching from the Eiffel Tower to
Mount Rushmore, breezing through some swift piffle about John Wilkes Booth's
diary and Cibola, the legendary pre-Columbian city of gold. I'm all for the PG
action-adventure movie; instead of ghettoizing the taste of little kids into
"child-friendly" dreck, let's let them dream of growing up to be a
kick-ass Library of Congress archivist. Rated PG. —LB
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN—Set in 1980 along the desolate Tex-Mex border,
the Coen Brothers' fastidiously faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's
literary crime novel follows a world-weary sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) and a
cold-blooded killer (Javier Bardem, in an Oscar-bound knockout turn) as they
pursue a hapless cowboy (Josh Brolin) who's stumbled across millions in drug
money. Faultlessly mounted, with terrific performances and a formal sheen worthy
of Hitchcock, the movie only stumbles in its final section, where McCarthy's
apocalyptic allegorizing overwhelms dramatic sense. Rated R. —GCONE MISSED CALL—In the latest variation of The Ring, this Japan-derived horror flick concerns some unfortunates who receives the details of their impending deaths via voicemail. Don't answer that call. Rated R. P.S I LOVE YOU—Hillary Swank stars as a young widow who discovers her late husband has left her a message with 10 tips for happier living. That bastard. Rated PG-13.
SWEENEY TODD—Tim Burton's hundred-mil appreciation of Stephen's
Sondheim's deeply bent operetta has a brilliant cast and ravishing silent
film-inspired production design. It also boasts copious bloodletting and a
ghoulish sense of humor. Too Grand Guignol for the average Broadway theater goer,
but with way too much singing for the average "R for graphic bloody
violence" multiplex-goer, it's a disappointing holiday treat. Rated R. —LB
TAARE ZAMIN PAR (EVERY CHILD IS SPECIAL)—An academic disaster, 8-year
old Ishaan (Darsheel Safary) is packed off by his desperate parents to boarding
school, a nightmare for his sensitive soul and dyslexic brain. His savior
appears just before the interval, in the person of Aamir Khan (Lagaan) a
lively and empathetic art teacher. Darsheel and his chipped-toothed overbite
steal the film, an exercise in special pleading to lossen up rigid Indian
schools. Not rated. —LBTHE WATER HORSE: THE LEGEND OF THE DEEP—A boy and his secret monster: In this Scottish E.T., lonely young Angus (Alex Etil from Millions) finds an egg in the nearby loch, which hatches to reveal an absolutely adorable animated reptile. Rated PG. Due to the possibility of last-minute scheduling changes, we recommend calling ahead to theaters to confirm final showtimes. More film tips and trailers: Film tips trailers
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