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Another Year Mike Leigh's observational film is a meditation on happiness and unhappiness. Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen are a cheerful London couple to whom lonely singletons are attracted. PG-13

    by Carrie Rickey | Columnist, Inquirer
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Another Year

Mike Leigh's observational film is a meditation on happiness and unhappiness. Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen are a cheerful London couple to whom lonely singletons are attracted.

PG-13

The Company Men Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, and Tommy Lee Jones face sink-or-swim time in John Wells' intelligent and involving story about corporate layoffs. A splendid supporting performance by Kevin Costner as Affleck's blue-collar brother-in-law. R

The Way Back Peter Weir's account of political prisoners' incredible escape from a Soviet gulag in 1940, and their 4,000-mile trek through snow-covered mountains, mosquito-infested rivers, and the Gobi Desert to freedom in India. R