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The team's star, Adrien, had lost sixty members of his family, including six brothers and everyone on his mother's side of the clan

A few years after the cessation of the civil war, American bike racing legend Jock Boyer was looking for a chance at redemption in the wake of being paroled after serving time in prison for lewd behavior. He found that opportunity he needed upon moving to Rwanda at the suggestion of a friend.


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'The Wolverine,' 'The To Do List ,' 'Frankenstein's Army,' and more

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A poignant cinematic portrait of an American legend directed by Brian Helgeland

From its formation in the late 19th Century until well into the 1940s, Major League Baseball operated in accordance with an unwritten rule that the sport was to remain strictly segregated. The tacit understanding among the owners stipulated that no blacks were to be signed by any clubs, thereby frustrating the aspirations of many African-Americans who dreamed of playing professionally.


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Like a poor man's version of Men in Black, R.I.P.D. is a disappointing action comedy both in terms of action and comedy

Veteran detective Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) is very content between his 15-year career with the Boston Police Department and being happily-married to the love of his life, Julia (Stefanie Szostak). However, his American Dream is irreversibly ruined the fateful day he is assigned to bring down a drug cartel conducting business out of an abandoned factory along the waterfront.

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A perfectly plausible, character-driven drama with only one glaring flaw

It's November 4, 2008, and Brooklyn is bristling with anticipation about the impending election returns to see whether or not Barack Obama will be the nation's first African-American president.


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'The Conjuring,' 'Red 2,' 'R.I.P.D. ,' 'Turbo ,' and more

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'Seeing someone getting shot like that, and not getting a chance to say goodbye to his loved ones was painful. I couldn't imagine myself in that situation'

Here, Coogler talks about his critically-acclaimed writing and directorial debut, which has already won awards at both the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals.


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A deceptively-frightening, old-fashioned screamer which does a masterful job of ever so slowly ratcheting up the terror

In 1952, Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) founded the New England Society for Psychic Research. Back then, the couple also began devoting a wing of their home to a museum of occult artifacts they would collect over the course of their long career.


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'Grown Ups 2,' 'Pacific Rim,' 'Fruitvale Station,' and more

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The film unfolds over the course of the last day in the charming 22 year-old's abbreviated life

Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) and his girlfriend, Sophina (Melonie Diaz), were returning to Oakland in the wee hours of the morning after attending a New Year's Eve 2009 celebration when their crowded train was stopped by police in response to a report of a disturbance.

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