X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(20th Century Fox, $26.99)
The fourth X-Men film fails to “rise to the heights” of the earlier ones, said the Los Angeles Times. Its attraction is the rivalry between Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber, two “fine actors” game for anything, be it “Chekhov or comic books.”
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Kabei: Our Mother
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