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  • 2008: Déjà vu again

    Another year, another Harry Potter (and a Narnia, and a Batman). But things could get interesting if Ireland gets the Oscar nod. Michael Dwyer looks at the year ahead.

  • Movies to watch out for

    A round-up of other films to look out for in 2008

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  • Lumet still a luminary

    Now 83, US director Sidney Lumet has been receiving his best reviews in decades for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke head the fine cast as amoral brothers so desperate for money that they conspire to rob the jewellery store owned by their elderly parents (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris).

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  • Closing the Ring

    Some veteran performers save this silly melodrama from total decay, writes Donald Clarke .

  • Shut Up and Shoot Me

    Film-makers have always enjoyed extracting comedy from the petty squabbling of silly men, writes Donald Clarke .

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