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Movie writers Kenneth Turan and Steven Zeitchik bring Morning Edition and All Things Considered a few notes from the mad moviegoing whirl in Park City.

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Critic Kenneth Turan says the actress's steely resolve -- in a kicking-butt-and-taking-names part originally written for a male star -- is the main reason to see a summer action thriller that otherwise gets pretty silly, pretty fast.

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Film critic Kenneth Turan reports in as the annual swirl of celebs, sand and cinema wraps up in the South of France.

On Turan's list of notable premieres: Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel, Woody Allen's latest downer and a perceptive, moving relationship portrait from the redoubtable director Mike Leigh.

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland takes viewers back down the rabbit hole for even more outrageous mayhem.

But Kenneth Turan says that in between the tea parties and the Red Queen's antics, Alice's story seems to have lost its wonder.

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Director Wes Anderson's first foray into animation, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, is based on the charmingly wicked children's book by Roald Dahl.

The film follows a battle of wits between the sly fox (voiced by George Clooney) and three formidable farmers.

Critic Kenneth Turan says the film's stop-motion animation is tailor-made for the sort of quirky details that Anderson employs.

A quirky comedy based on the true story of "psychic warriors" in the '70s and '80s, Goats stars George Clooney and Kevin Spacey as offbeat officers turned fearsome foes when their hippie leader (Jeff Bridges) goes missing.

Critic Kenneth Turan says watching these practiced farceurs at work can't help but provide some laughs.

Michael Moore is famous for skewering the excesses of American industry — and in his latest film, he goes looking (mostly on Wall Street) for the source of the trouble.

Critic Kenneth Turan says that while Capitalism certainly has spirit, the pop-culture polemicist may have taken on more than he could chew.