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summary judgment: Highlights from the week in criticism.

The Lion, the Spook, and the GeishaThe critics on this week's new releases.


Posted Friday, Dec. 9, 2005, at 4:16 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: Memoirs of a Geisha, an adaptation of the best-selling book; Syriana, the political drama from the writer of Traffic; and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Hollywood's effort to bring the C.S. Lewis classic to the big screen.

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