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Film critics’ attacks on Pearl Harbor are likely to be as ineffective in the long run as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was 60 years ago, entertainment analysts suggested Thursday. “This is review-proof,” Hal Vogel, chief executive of Vogel Capital in New York, told Bloomberg News. “It’s bulletproof. The reviews could say it’s the worst movie in the world and they will still (come).” At almost $210 per “share,” Pearl Harbor carries the heaviest price on the online Hollywood Stock Exchange, where people trade virtual stock in showbiz celebrities, movies and the like. Shares in the film on HSX Thursday rose even as negative reviews continued to pour in. By early Friday morning the Web site Rotten Tomatoes, which posts links to dozens of movie reviews, had tallied 40 negative reviews and just nine positive ones.