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‘Tintin’ is thrillingly new and different

Watching “The Adventures of Tintin” gives you the same thrill you felt when you saw “Toy Story” for the first time: Here is a next-gen animated film that builds on everything that has come before to create something new and exciting. Motion capture has been used everywhere from “The Polar Express” to “Avatar.” But in […]

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Uneven ‘Zoo’ falls short of its feel-good aspirations

“We Bought a Zoo” is a holiday movie worth rooting for. Directed by the cinema’s last great romantic, Cameron Crowe, it features cute tykes, young romance and a grownup grieving for a lost love, adorable animals and the comically crotchety Thomas Haden Church. The director of “Jerry Maguire” – whose last feature film, “Elizabethtown,” was […]

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Spielberg captures horrors of WWI with ‘War Horse’

Men on opposing sides of war find their shared humanity in their love of animals in “War Horse,” Steven Spielberg’s sentimental epic about a country thoroughbred who travels from the fields of Devonshire to the trenches of the Somme in World War I. The film – based on a play that was based on Michael […]

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Got Tix?

The latest On sale 10 a.m. Friday — The Fresh Beat Band, noon March 23, Orpheum Theatre, Boston. $27.50 to $45.75. Ticketmaster.com; (800) 745-3000 On sale noon Friday — Kathy Griffin, 7 p.m. March 24, Wilbur Theatre, Boston. $59.35 to $81.90. Ticketmaster.com; (800) 745-3000 The locals Dec. 29-31 — Bob Marley, 7 p.m. Dec. 29, […]