Visually dazzling &#39;Hero&#39; transcends martial arts
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Zhang Yimou&#39;s &quot;Hero&quot; is beautiful and beguiling, a martial arts extravaganza defining the styles and lives of its fighters within Chinese tradition.
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In another era, say as far back as the pre-BALCO days, it would have been a wonderful moment. The host country&#39;s new hero, a rising star, sets an Olympic
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Mira Nair's film grabbed the audience from the first frame.
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Chinese martial arts thriller  "Hero" logged a second weekend at the top of the North American  box office during the U.S. Labor Day holiday, while four new  entries failed to make much of an impression.
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Christopher Reeve was the ideal actor to play Superman. It wasn&#39;t just that he brought good looks and charm to the role, or that he could wear the required costume - chest-straddling &quot;S&quot; and all - without looking silly.
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The superstar springs a surprise.
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From China, courtey of Quentin Tarantino, comes a colorful martial-arts spectacle starring three very cool actors. By Robert Horton.
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The slick thriller mixes fire fights with a fiery message.
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past. Filmmaker Kerry Conran has made a soaring action adventure that&#39;s both a glorious labor of love and, in the end, irrelevant.
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Zhang Ziyi battles with the big boys in the dazzling, devious martial-arts epic House of Flying Daggers
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LOS ANGELES The acclaimed Jet Li martial-arts epic &quot;Hero&quot; took in an estimated 17-point-eight (m) million dollars to rank Number One in the weekend box office.
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Jet Li's martial arts flick makes it big.
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In the elegant murk of &quot;Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,&quot; Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow slip into comic book archetypes of the dashing aviator and the intrepid girl reporter with supreme confidence.
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Fluid motion and  glorious colors provide a visual treat in Jiang Wen&#39;s sumptuous  romantic fantasy &quot;The Sun Also Rises,&quot; which screened in  competition at the Venice International Film Festival.
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The Chinese call them &quot;wuxia,&quot; which translates to chivalry in battle, but now refers to movies in which dazzling martial arts are employed to preserve honor, most often in historical or fantastical settings.
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The acclaimed martial-arts epic Hero, starring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung and Zhang Ziyi, vanquished giant snakes, serial killers and a gang of superbabies to debut as the top weekend film with $17.
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The new film Invincible, about a 30-year-old Philadelphia Eagles rookie, offers up a hero of Rockyesque proportions