- 11/2/12 /
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Movie Review: Watching Wreck-It Ralph Is Like Watching Someone Else Play a Cool Video Game
Enjoyable and likable, though you might find yourself twiddling your thumbs along the way.
Bilge Ebiri
- 10/12/12 /
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Here Comes the Boom: A ‘Laugh at the Chubby Guy’ Movie, Sans the Laughs
Despite not being particularly funny, this Kevin James film gets a lot of mileage out of its star’s inherent likability.
- 9/28/12 /
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Movie Review: Hotel Transylvania Is a One-Note Animated Film, But It’s a Funny Note
This Adam Sandler animated film is pleasantly disposable.
- 8/17/12 /
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Cosmopolis: Robert Pattinson’s Limo Ride As Epic Journey
Robert Pattinson stars in this adaptation of a Don DeLillo book.
- 8/16/12 /
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Movie Review: Why Isn’t The Expendables 2 More Insane?
This sequel is aggressively dumb, aggressively macho, and just plain aggressively aggressive.
- 8/10/12 /
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In Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee Tries Something New: Patience
Lee's latest joint is being billed as a return to the personal, low-budget filmmaking that put the director on the map a few decades ago.
- 8/9/12 /
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2 Days in New York Review: Stay in Europe, Woody — We’ve Got Julie Delpy Now
Julie Delpy's follow up to 2 Days in Paris is an assured, sensitive, and occasionally very funny relationship comedy.
- 6/29/12 /
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Movie Review: Elizabeth Banks Is the Only Real Person in People Like Us
The guys behind Star Trek and Transformers try their hand at a serious human drama set in the real world.
- 6/29/12 /
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Movie Review: Madea’s Witness Protection; or, Tyler Perry’s Diminishing Returns
This time around, Madea just seems spent.
- 6/22/12 /
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Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Is the Honest Abe Our Generation Deserves
Does any other American president have such an extensive fictional pop-culture mythos?
- 3/12/10 /
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Shutter Island Explained
Have questions? Bilge Ebiri and Glenn Kenny have answers.
- 6/22/07 /
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The Friday Short: ‘Fission’
If Michel Gondry were to direct a street-art Fantasia, it might look something like Fission. Winner of a recent Student Academy Award in the Best Alternative Film category, recent School of Visual Arts grad Kun-I Chang’s explores a quintessentially New York concept.