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Tulsa World - Fri Dec 11, 5:05 am ET
He is Mandela: Struggling leader royally portrayed in solid, but conventional film
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Kokomo Tribune - Thu Dec 10, 5:57 pm ET
The true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid.
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New York Post - Fri Dec 11, 12:37 am ET
As he approaches 80, living legend Clint Eastwood shows no signs of slowing down, nor shirking from challenges as a filmmaker. The Oscar-caliber “Invictus” entertainingly delves into South African politics and rugby, two normally forbidding subjects ...
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The Hollywood Reporter - Thu Dec 10, 8:10 pm ET
VIDEO: "Invictus" is the weekend's only wide opener, but the expanding "The Princess and the Frog" is expected to top the boxoffice.
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Boston Herald - Fri Dec 11, 12:18 am ET
In a stunning display of artistic prowess, Clint Eastwood's string of late-career hits remains unbroken. "Invictus," Eastwood's depiction of South...
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Fri Dec 11, 4:38 am ET
NEW YORK - "Up in the Air" was named best picture by the National Board of Review and won a total of four awards.
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FOX 11 Tucson - Fri Dec 11, 4:18 am ET
! URBAN ! LOS ANGELES (AP) — It isn't often that you can go to a movie — and see history made. But that's just what will happen this weekend for those who see the first black princess in a Disney animated movie.
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The Salt Lake Tribune - Thu Dec 10, 4:56 pm ET
Invictus » Opens Friday at area theaters; rated PG-13 for thematic elements and brief strong language; 100 minutes. There's half a good movie in director Clint Eastwood's melodramatic telling of how Nelson Mandela, in his early days as South Africa's president after the fall of
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Philadelphia Daily News - Thu Dec 10, 7:04 pm ET
WITH APOLOGIES to William Ernest Henley, one might say that under the bludgeonings of Clint, "Invictus" emerges a little boring, but unbowed.
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Film Journal - Thu Dec 10, 11:26 pm ET
According to our panel of critics, the awards-season competition among actors is not all that exciting—especially, several critics assert, in the leading-actor category. "It's a quiet year for actors," says Sean Smith, Los Angeles bureau chief of Entertainment Weekly.
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The Huffington Post - Thu Dec 10, 12:14 pm ET
Leigh Taylor-Young and I participated recently in the Parliament of the World's Religions in Melbourne, Australia. Nelson Mandela attended that Parliament as well and spoke of his "debt" to religion throughout his life.
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Press of Atlantic City - Fri Dec 11, 3:18 am ET
"The Princess and the Frog" - Disney returns to hand-drawn animation with this variation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Frog Prince," featuring waitress Tiana, above, and her adventure with a prince turned into a frog. Rated G.
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Whittier Daily News - Thu Dec 10, 10:51 pm ET
OSLO - Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 10:21 pm ET
"War president" Barack Obama was due Thursday to accept his controversial Nobel Peace Prize amid Norway's biggest ever police security operation.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 11:09 am ET
Nelson Mandela made it clear that Morgan Freeman was the man he would want to play him in a film.