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Addicted to SmokingThe critics on a politically incorrect new movie.


Posted Friday, March 17, 2006, at 4:30 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: V for Vendetta, a sci-fi action flick starring Natalie Portman and based on a graphic novel; Thank You for Smoking, a dark comedy whose hero is the chief spokesman for the tobacco industry; and She's the Man, an updating of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night starring Amanda Bynes.

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