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Highlights from the week in criticism.

Getting le Carré-ed AwayThe critics on three new wide releases.

Posted Friday, Sept. 2, 2005, at 4:51 PM ET

In this week's audio-only Summary Judgment, Mark Jordan Legan sums up how the critics feel about three new releases: A Sound of Thunder, a freaky time-travel movie starring Ben Kingsley and based on a short story by Ray Bradbury; The Underclassman, about a police detective who poses as a prep school student; and The Constant Gardener, based on the novel by John le Carré.

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