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This week's movies (1300 screens): The Constant Gardener - 82% positive reviews.

• It's an international political thriller, which means that the 82% score is meaningless, because with political thrillers critics tend to rate the politics, not the thrills. The high score tells me it is dutifully left-liberal, but reveals nothing either way about the quality of the film. Might be great, might not.