A clever mashup of fact and fiction and a “radio show” version of the holiday classic are among this week’s best bets.
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Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups
Blood Ties and Gambit: two genre films from the “disappearing middle” of American cinema
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The Butler: The anti-Gump
In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.
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Reduced to Fractions
He’s an import and he can go from zero to creepy in about an hour.