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My Favorite Martian InvasionCritics are over the moon about War of the Worlds.
Updated Friday, July 1, 2005, at 4:43 PM ET
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In this week's audio-only Summary Judgment, Andy Bowers sums up how the critics feel about three new releases: Steven Spielberg's updating of the H.G. Wells sci-fi classic War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning; Chinese director Jia Zhangke's latest work The World, about a woman who mostly exists in a Beijing amusement park; and Rebound, a comedy starring Martin Lawrence in yet another story of a coach and his teenage players bonding.
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