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Weekend Film Reviews

The Intouchables; Men in Black 3; Moonrise Kingdom

Joe Morgenstern offers thoughts on three very different new movies being released this Memorial Day weekend.

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By Joe Morgenstern • May 26, 2012 • 3m Listen

The Intouchables, a "hugely likable comedy" set in contemporary Paris, finds unlikely uplift in a friendship between two men who are untouchables in different ways...

If time travel worked as well for us as it works for Will Smith's Agent J in Men in Black 3, we could go back to the summer of 1997 and be astonished all over again by the original and now classic Men in Black...

West Anderson's "beguiling and endearing"Moonrise Kingdom is an adult's guide to young love...

Banner image: Suzy Bishop and Sam Shakusky in Moonrise Kingdom

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