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Since they're ambitious directors within their own spheres, the Wachowskis ("The Matrix") and Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run") only could yield a massively ambitious project by teaming up.

This film certainly is that, and even if the lengthy result - based on the novel by David Mitchell - isn't totally successful, it's surely intriguing. Over the course of several stories set in different eras, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon and Jim Broadbent are among the stars who play various characters ... the intended message being that everyone is linked across space and time. DVD extra: "making-of" documentary. *** (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)

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'Texas Chainsaw'

One of screen history's most popular horror franchises gets an expectedly graphic reboot with this contemporary take, originally shown theatrically in 3-D. Upon going to the Lone Star State to claim an inheritance, a young woman (Alexandra Daddario) soon finds the legend of the lethal Leatherface is far from over, and she could well end up the next victim of it. read more »

'Dexter: The Seventh Season'

The eighth, expected-to-be-final round of the Showtime series begins June 30 ... and it's hard to imagine how it could be more of a game changer than this set of episodes, in which police detective Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) discovers her half brother Dexter's (Michael C. Hall) secret life as a serial killer. read more »

'Back to 1942'

While their roles in the story are justifiable, the presence of Oscar winners Adrien Brody ("The Pianist") and Tim Robbins ("Mystic River") also helps make this true drama more accessible. read more »

'Jack Reacher'

The driving force behind one action franchise with "Mission: Impossible," Tom Cruise aimed to launch another with this enjoyably tough melodrama centered around novelist Lee Child's title character, an ex-military man trying to determine whether a former Army sniper is at the heart of several Pittsburgh murders. read more »

'Mama'

While she was making the award-season rounds for "Zero Dark Thirty," Jessica Chastain projected a much different screen image as the rather Goth heroine of this horror tale from executive producer Guillermo del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth"). read more »

'Safe Haven'

Sincere performances, lovely scenery and other familiar elements of other Nicholas Sparks-based films - and a few new twists - factor into this drama, another trademark Sparks tale of a complicated romance. read more »

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