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Posted Friday, Sept. 16, 2005, at 3:14 PM ET

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In this week's audio-only Summary Judgment, Mark Jordan Legan sums up how the critics feel about three new releases: Lord of War, an action/adventure/satire with Nicolas Cage as a notorious international arms dealer; Proof, a film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the daughter of a mad mathematician; and Just Like Heaven, the tale of a man who rents an apartment inhabited by a beautiful ghost (Reese Witherspoon).

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