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The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 19, 2009

High School Musical: Senior Year **½

The title tells you everything you need to know about the plot, unless you're really tuning in desperate to find out whether the slender, beautifully coiffed Troy (Zac Efron) is going to pursue basketball or musical theater in college. More to the point, the dance numbers are big and glossy and effective. It almost makes high school look fun.

G, 100 minutes

Changeling **½

Angelina Jolie earned an Oscar nomination for her starring role in this adaptation of the true story of Christine Collins, a single mother in 1920s Los Angeles whose son disappears. A few months later, the LAPD claims to have found the boy alive - and doesn't take kindly to her insistence that it's not the same kid. Clint Eastwood directs. John Malkovich is in a supporting role..

R, 140 minutes

Body of Lies **½

Portly C.I.A. puppet master Russell Crowe controls Leonardo DiCaprio's disillusioned field agent from the safety of the carpool lane in this Ridley Scott thriller. The locations (mostly Middle Eastern) and enemies are topical, but the gadgets, explosions and love interest suggest an agenda more of "cool spy movie" than "blistering foreign policy critique."

R, 129 minutes

OTHER NEW DVD RELEASES

•Religulous: Bill Maher (pictured), Steve Burg R, 101 minutes

•Hounddog: Dakota Fanning, Robin Wright-Penn,

David Morse R, 99 minutes

•Flash of Genius: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham,

Dermot Mulroney PG-13, 119 minutes

•Choke: Sam Rockwell, Angelica Huston, Kelly McDonald,

R, 89 minutes

•Quarantine: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, R, 89 minutes

Synopses by Amanda Henry; ratings from The Associated Press

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