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2012 Nobody makes doomsday movies with happy endings like Roland Emmerich. And this one, starring John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor, is the biggest, loudest example of Emmerich's philosophy that it's OK if eight billion people die so long as eight movie stars - and the dog - live. PG-13

    by Carrie Rickey | Columnist, Inquirer
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2012

Nobody makes doomsday movies with happy endings like Roland Emmerich. And this one, starring John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor, is the biggest, loudest example of Emmerich's philosophy that it's OK if eight billion people die so long as eight movie stars - and the dog - live.

PG-13

An Education Carey Mulligan shines as the Oxford-bound honors student courted by a mysterious suitor twice her age (Peter Sarsgaard) in this resonant story directed by Lone Scherfig from Lynn Barber's memoir. PG-13

The Men Who Stare at Goats M*A*S*H for the millennium, Grant Heslov's satire about a (mental? experimental?) cadre of paranormals dedicated to nontraditional means of gathering military intelligence is a war movie for peaceniks and a treat for fans of Jeff Bridges. With George Clooney and Ewan McGregor. R