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Certificate 15, running time 1h39m
 "I DON'T believe in Heaven. I believe in pain, I believe in fear, I believe in death," growls the titular, gun-toting hero at the beginning of John Moore's tiresome video game adaptation.
(14/11/2008)
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Certificate 18, running time 1h41m
 ALMOST 20 years ago, Rob Reiner's seminal romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally posed the age-old question: can men and women truly be friends without sex getting in the way?
(14/11/2008)
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Certificate 12A, running time 1h42m
 Ricky Gervais graduates to Hollywood leading man in Ghost Town, David Koepp's supernatural comedy about a curmudgeon who discovers he can see dead people on the streets of Manhattan.
(14/11/2008)
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Certificate 15, running time 2h10m
 Gavin O'Connor directs this gritty New York-set crime thriller. Ray Tierney (Edward Norton, pictured) and his brother Francis Jr (Noah Emmerich) hark from a long line of cops, following in the footsteps of their father (Jon Voight), the city's former chief of police.
(14/11/2008)
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Certificate 18, running time 1h30m
 JED Weintrob's gory thriller unfolds in eye-popping detail as it invites audiences to witness carnage in blood-drenched 3D.
(13/11/2008)
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DVD REVIEWS
By Paul Newman
(Entertainment In Video, PG, retail & rental)
 AFTER a couple of short-lived flourishes in the 1950s and '70s, it's good to see 3-D enjoying a major revival.
(14/11/2008)
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(Mr Bongo Films, 15, retail)
 IF David Lynch's Eraserhead is the closest cinema has come to mapping the disturbing territory of a nightmare, Polish director Wojciech (The Saragossa Manuscript) Has' 1973 Hourglass Sanatorium must stand as its equal in terms of capturing the roiling brew of memory, nostalgia and fantasy that distil into dreaming.
(14/11/2008)
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(Second Sight, 12, retail)
 EFFECTIVELY an 85-minute classical music video for Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, which uniquely blends the Latin Mass For The Dead with the work of First World War poet Wilfred Owen, Derek Jarman's fitful 1989 film veers between heartbreaking poignancy and, occasionally, an excess of artsy indulgence.
(14/11/2008)
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(Second Sight, PG, retail)
 ANOTHER visual feast this week is Ron Fricke's restored 1992 film Baraka, its title a Sufi term translating as 'blessing' or 'breath of life'.
(14/11/2008)
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(Second Sight, 15, retail)
 UKRANIAN beauty and new Quantum Of Solace Bond girl Olga Kurylenko stars in this odd little 2005 psychosexual drama which invites comparison with The Secretary and, superficially, some of Peter Greenaway's more esoteric films.
(14/11/2008)
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