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Releases include "Argo" and "Anna Karenina," along with the second season of "Game of Thrones."

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"Skyfall" (PG-13, 143 minutes, MGM): To succeed, a James Bond movie must traffic in equal parts sophistication and pure preposterousness, a winking willingness not to take itself too seriously, but with peerless writing, acting and production values. All of those elements are on hand in "Sky…

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It's high-school reunion time, and the characters of "American Reunion" are actively engaged in their main discussion topic - sex.

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"American Reunion" (R, 113 minutes, Universal): Like Stifler, "American Reunion," another sequel to "American Pie," refuses to grow up. The obsession with sex has not changed. The subject of coupling, uncoupling and re-coupling with exes is almost the sole subject of conversation at this reu…

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"The Artist" (PG-13, 100 minutes, The Weinstein Co./Sony): A delectable homage to the silent movies of the 1920s, Michel Hazanavicius' romantic comedy plays like a sweet, airy confection. That "The Artist" is itself a silent movie - in black-and-white, no less - shouldn't deter viewers from …

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"Contraband" (R, 110 minutes, Universal): Directed by actor-director Baltasar Kormakur, the film has a gloomy, propulsive, working-class energy that feels slightly more like European cinema than Hollywood. When we first meet Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg), he has left the smuggling game to r…