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Lots of Props for TsotsiThe critics on one of this year's foreign Oscar contenders.

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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: Tsotsi, a South African drama nominated for a best foreign film Oscar; Running Scared, an ultraviolent action movie from the director of The Cooler; and Doogal, a computer-animated kids film about a motley group of animals who have to save the world from an evil sorcerer (voiced by Jon Stewart).

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