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Enough Said: Enough Said marks one of the final appearances by the late James Gandolfini, playing a frumpy, overweight academic named Albert who embarks on an awkward romance with Eva (Julia LouisDreyfus), a masseuse who, like Albert, is a divorced parent of a teenaged daughter about to leave home for college. The film sparkles within and without, just like the rare gem that it is. ★★★★ The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: The second instalment of the Hunger Games franchise is darker, more mature, it accentuates yet further the Orwellian elements in the Suzanne Collins novels from which it is adapted, and benefits from another full-blooded performance from Jennifer Lawrence as the warrior heroine, Katniss Everdeen. Yet Catching Fire remains contradictory, caught in some nether world between nightmarish political allegory and adolescent escapism. ★★★ Detachment: Director Tony Kaye’s depiction of a substitute teacher’s hellish experience in a public high school makes his film American History X seem lighthearted by comparison. Adrien Brody delivers a

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