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DVDs of the week, Feb. 24

Published February 23, 2009 at 6 p.m.

What Just Happened

Rated: R, 104 minutes, $29.98, Magnolia

Grade: C-

Despite an all-star cast - Bruce Willis, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn and more - this film about lying, back-stabbing and colliding egos in Hollywood offers nothing we didn't know or suspect, though it's the work of longtime insiders.

De Niro plays a producer juggling family and work crises as he tries to get a movie ready for the Cannes Film Festival. De Niro does his best work in a while, dialing down the rage that often has made him a caricature, says Associated Press critic Christy Lemire, but "everyone is so shallow, self-serving and narcissistic that there isn't a single person worth caring about."

* The Haunting of Molly Hartley: A young woman hoping to start a new life fears she has inherited more than her mother's psychosis - a horrible secret and a tragic destiny.

* Sex Drive: A teen about to start college with his virginity intact "borrows" his brother's prized Pontiac GTO for a road trip to hook up with a hottie he found on the Internet.

COMING NEXT WEEK

* Beverly Hills Chihuahua

* I've Loved You So Long

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