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Emperor review

The second movie this year (after The Wolverine ) to begin with an atomic strike on Japan, Peter Webber’s post-WW2 yarn finds Tommy Lee Jones’ General MacArthur in the horns of a dilemma. Should Emperor Hirohito hang for Pearl Harbor or be kept alive as the figurehead of an unoccupied …

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Hope Springs (2012) review

Every now and then, in its own conservative way, Hollywood tries something a bit radical. This comedy-drama about sexagenarian sexy times marks one of those instances. Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a couple in late-middle age with a traditional marriage; he goes out to work with a briefcase …

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