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summary judgment: Highlights from the week in criticism.

Bloody TerrificThe critics on Capote and other new movies.


Posted Friday, Sept. 30, 2005, at 3:33 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: The Greatest Game Ever Played, the true story of a famous day on the links; Serenity, Joss Whedon's attempt to transfer the cult following of his canceled sci-fi TV show Firefly to the big screen; and Capote, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as the author of the true-crime classic In Cold Blood.

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