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The best of the DIRECTV primetime lineup

If it hadn’t been picked recently and started within BC on TV’s 6pm-10pm primetime, the Ryan Gosling, um, vehicle, **Drive BEST FILM OF THE DAY (5.15pm, Max) would certainly have got today’s nod.

Today’s Number One Film:

Picture courtesy Cinemas OnlineCloser, 7.55pm Paramount Channel. Watch this if you liked The Hours, August: Osage County or My Blueberry Nights. Once you’re not impatient with any movie-pacing slower than Terminator 2’s, it’s hard to go wrong with a four-lead cast of Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen, all of whom are excellent. Like director Mike Nichols best previous films (Catch-22 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), the strengths of Closer are those of the source material: great dialogue. Similarly, the film’s great limitation is the claustrophobic feeling: for all its visual hopping around London, the whole thing could have played out on a stage. Anyone who loved The Hours ought to love Closer, give or take a quibble about unlikely plot twists or character motivations. Anyone with the patience to have loved The English Patient should be thrilled. Directed by Mike Nichols / 2004/ UK-USA/ Drama-Romance/ 104 mins/ Rated R for sequences of graphic sexual dialogue, nudity/sexuality and language.



JUST NOSED OUT:

**Inglorious Basterds (Action-Thriller-War), 9.05pm Max; Intolerable Cruelty (Coen Bros Dark Comedy), 9pm FoxCom; **The Brothers Grimsby (Stoner Comedy), 9pm MaxP; Footloose (Young Adult Romance-Drama), 7.10pm FoxClas; 27 Dresses (Rom-Com), 6.10pm CnCl; Marie Antoinette (Indy-Rom-Com-Drama-History), 7pm Max.

BEST Pay Per View BET: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

*Starred films have been chosen in the last year. ** Double-starred films have been chosen in the last two months.

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