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May 31, 2013
At the Movies: 'After Earth' is a disappointing sci-fi tale
By JOHN DeFORE
The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
| After Earth |
 Director: M. Night Shyamalan Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith Rating: PG-13 Running time: 100 minutes |
LOS ANGELES — Humanity's home planet hardly merits the name-check in “After Earth,” M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi survival tale whose shipwreck action could (with the exception of a scene where our hero scrawls a crude map over Lascaux-like cave paintings) take place on any old life-supporting globe in the cosmos.
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