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REVIEW: Unknown Actually Just Tired, Familiar Same-Old From Liam Neeson

When someone makes a list of the most influential movies of the last decade — has EW done that yet? — The Bourne Identity should get its own category, not only because of the ruthless efficiency of its action sequences but also for the detached competence of its star, Matt Damon, whose deportment while stalking the gray, shadowy streets of West Europe suggested a man on a mission while lost in a dream. In the intermittently diverting Unknown — there could also be a compilation of movies with that title — Liam Neeson borrows from the Bourne playbook, as an American stranded in mysterious Berlin, his brow knitted even deeper by the fact that, after recovering from an accident, he’s been replaced in his life by someone claiming to be him.

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REVIEW: Unknown Actually Just Tired, Familiar Same-Old From Liam Neeson

How Totally Random are This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival Juries?

Answer: Pretty totally random! Tribeca today sent over a release announcing 35 jurors for its 2010 festival, ranging from Oscar winners to a Twitter co-founder to a State Department member to Jessica Alba, Zach Braff Aaron Eckhart, and Alicia Keys — in no particular order, and not quite where you’d likely expect them to show up. It hardly seems right that they’d snub Movieline’s distinguished staff on our birthday , but there’s always next year. Speaking for myself, I’d give up a chair for Brooke Shields or America Ferrera any day. The rest, though… you really must see it to believe it.

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How Totally Random are This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival Juries?