Critics Consensus: Shutter Island Is Solid But Minor Scorsese

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This week at the movies brings just one new wide release: Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, a psychological thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley. It's inevitable that a new Martin Scorsese movie will be greeted rapturously by film buffs -- and will inevitably be compared, fairly or not, to his past triumphs.

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Critics Consensus: Shutter Island Is Solid But Minor Scorsese

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