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Starring: Jay Chou, Chow Yun-Fat, Li Gong, Qin Junjie, Man Li Review: If looks were all it took to thrill, this opulent, near-operatic historical pageant would rank with Zhang Yimou's last two epics, Hero and House of... Rating: 3 Stars

Starring: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imeldaa Staunton, Apr... Review: Leave it to Hilary Swank. Even when her film's pace lags behind its cliches, she sparks this true story, about a California teacher who sparks her stu... Rating: 2 Stars

Starring: Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Justin Timberlake, Emile Hirsch, Domi... Review: He takes his shirt off, sports tattoos, acts tough and smokes a shitload of weed. That's right, Justin Timberlake plays a shit-for-brains in Alpha Dog... Rating: 2 Stars

Starring: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret,... Review: How the hell can the New York Film Critics Circle choose Army of Shadows as the year's best foreign-language film? It's nearly forty years old, a... Rating: 4 Stars

In memory of the late instant-noodle king, Momofuku Ando, Jeff Yang speaks to notable ramen authorities about the meal-in-a-bowl's awesome cultural impact -- including Robert Allan Ackerman, director of the forthcoming Brittany Murphy film "The Ramen Girl."...