Night Train To Lisbon (2013)

Seeing an out from his existence as a live-alone, play-chess-alone Classics professor, a Swiss man uses the train tickets he finds in the coat of a woman he saved from killing herself to go to Lisbon where he infects even a Boys Own Adventure set in pre-Carnation Revolution Lisbon with his tediousness.

★★☆☆☆

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Dead Ringers (1988)

The identical twin brothers in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller, both played by Jeremy Irons, are indistinguishable to the women they share and pretty much indistinguishable to viewers who will find it not worth trying to keep track of whether it is Beverly Mantel who is the sophisticat and Elliot Mantel who is the snivelling one, or vice versa, and which one is using drugs and going mad and which one isn't, but that seems to be the point - the two big questions here are, "Where does one twin start and the other twin end?" and, "How long will it be before this movie ends and another more enjoyable, less twisted one starts?"

★★☆☆☆

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Beautiful Creatures (2013)

Teens familiar with the book series might appreciate this tiresome movie in which ancient feuding families, let's say "the Muggles and the Capulets", have their rift exascerbated by the blossoming love of Eric and Lena, a star-crossed pair of opposites a little like magic-casting Twilight versions of Romeo and Juliet with Southern accents.

★★☆☆☆

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