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Show WedyThurs/Fri, February 9-11, 2011 The Park Record C-9 FILM CLIPS By MICHAEL PHILLIPS Tribune Media Services BIACKSWAN. Christoph Waltz. A1J in all, not too successful. PG-13 (sequences of violent action, language, sensuality and drug content). 1:48. 2 stars. Mainlining Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" ballet score like a drug addict, this film pushes Nina (Natalie Portman), a Manhattan ballerina devoted to her craft, to the brink of insanity and then a couple of subway stops beyond. Director Darren Aronofsky's film is with her all the way. Portman's performance as the dying swan is formidable in its nerve-racking expressivity. It is, in fact, a racked nerve, personified. This is Aronofsky's most interesting film to date, and there's not a more exciting fairy tale for grownups in theaters right now. R (strong sexual content, disturbing violent images, language and some drug use). 1:50. 3 1/2 stars. THE MECHANIC The cruddy remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson vehicle "The Mechanic" has been rejiggered for Jason Statham and 10 times the brutality. Let's not denigrate the term "action film" by applying it to director Simon West's ("Con Air") effort. This is a violence film, not an action PHOTO BY JASIN BOIAND/COURTESY film. Statham plays the culUNIVERSAL PlCTURESTviCT tured, sophisticated assassin "Sanctum" takes viewers who's assigned to kill his boss. underwater. This is not a remake worth remaking. R (strong, brutal violence, language, some sexu- guage and sexual references). al content and nudity). 1:32. 1 1:52. 2 1/2 stars. star. SANCTUM. Photographed with the same NO STRINGS ATTACHED. Natalie Portman plays a bright technology as "Avatar," this but emotionally guarded L.A, film is the high-type 3-D. The doctor-in-training, who recon- characters, the dialogue, the THE DILEMMA. Unexpectedly sour, "The nects with a sometime acquain- tension - the stuff the 3-D is Dilemma" barely qualifies as a tance, played by Ashton supposed to be supporting in comedy. Vince Vaughn and co- Kutcher. His character, a fledg- the name of racking our nerves star Kevin James play Ronny ling writer and put-upon TV - well, "Sanctum" has some and Nick, best pals and busi- assistant, has three defining problems with those. An ness partners in Chicago. traits: He's "nice," "annoyingly underwater cave diver, played Ronny is dating a chef happy" and a good lay. While by Richard Roxburgh, is lead(Jennifer Connelly). Nick, Kutcher can't seem to carry a ing his crew deep into "the insecure and ulcer-prone, is lead role, Portman's role is largest unexplored cave system married to live wire Geneva pleasantly nuanced, and the in the world" off the coast of (Winona Ryder) whom supporting cast is frustratingly New Guinea. A terrible storm Vaughn's character. Ronny, talented here. Director Ivan cuts the team off from the outonce slept with in college. By Reitman rebounds slightly side; the caves begin to flood; accident, Ronny spies Geneva with thisfilm.The film industry and the divers can't escape making out with an apparent is capable of better. R (sexual through their original point of paramour (Channing Tatum). content, language and some entry. R (language, some violence and disturbing images). The film has an extreme identi- drug material). 1:46. 2 stars. 1:43. 2 stars. ty crisis, and it's hard even to track the intentions of a given THE RITE. scene. PG-13 (mature thematic Young Michael (Colin TRUE GRIT. elements involving sexual con- O'Donoghue) opts to become This remake restores all the tent). 1:58. 2 stars. a seminary student but can't go grit removed in thefirstverall the way. A tragic accident sion, the 1969 John Wayne film winds up sending Michael to based on the Charles Portis THE GREEN HORNET. Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is the Rome on a training program novel. In 1870s Arkansas and playboy son of a newspaper for exorcists. There he's what was then known as Indian baron (Tom Wilkinson) who assigned to shadow Father Territory, 14-year-old Mattie dies by bee sting, leaving Britt Lucas (Anthony Hopkins) a Ross guides an Old Testament in charge. Because he has wizened pro. For an hour, the eye-for-an-eye search for her nothing better to do, he teams film delivers the expected, but father's killer. Jeff Bridges up with one of his fathers with panache - even going so plays one-eyed Civil War vetemployees (Jay Chou) to far as to acknowledge "The eran Rooster Cogbum well, become the Green Hornet, Exorcist" leanings when Lucas and Hailee Steinfeld is a real aided by faithful, patronized asks his protege, "What did find as Mattie. Coen brothers' sidekick Kato. While cleaning you expect? Spinning heads? craft this strong should not be up the scuzzy drug trade and Pea soup?" 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