Trailer Mash

Olivia Thirlby, John Hawkes and other forces of nature from this week's new movies

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Has Tyler Perry launched a fabulous and brilliantly new subversive approach to the casting of action heroes? Can they all now be played by people whose first career is cross-dressing? Who in their right mind would not want Ru Paul to be the next James Bond? The stuff of YouTube commenting aside, Alex Cross looks like a perfectly agreeable workaday thriller with lots of horrible deeds referenced mostly in the context of the vengeful fury that will be rained down upon the perpetrator should he choose the wrong victim.

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