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Angelina Jolie and Haley Joel Osment share a tender moment in this awkward scene from "Caligula II."

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"His failures tower over other men's successes," a rambling Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins) says of the title character. That same phrase can apply to writer-director Oliver Stone. The Oscar-winning filmmaker hits his career nadir with an embarrassing period piece that manages to be boring, overly long (3 hours), confusing, implausible and incapable of creating a single character who can engage the audience.

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