- 7/29/11 /
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Movie Review: The Guard Is Dirty, Bloody Fun
Brendan Gleeson plays a blaspheming, kinky Fatty Arbuckle with a chip on his shoulder.
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- 7/28/11 /
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Review: The Smurfs Is a Smurfing, Smurfed-Up Smurfesty
Smurf you, you smurfing smurf.
- 7/22/11 /
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Movie Reviews: The Myth of the American Sleepover and Another Earth
Maybe in another dimension, Cahill nailed it, but not here.
- 7/22/11 /
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Movie Review: Friends With Benefits Is Fabulously Fake Fun
Will Gluck is a quick-witted, inventive director with a natural touch for contrivance.
- 7/22/11 /
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Movie Review: The Appealingly Old-Fashioned Captain America
The retro-nostalgic Captain America is miles ahead of its recent competitors.
- 7/15/11 /
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Movie Review: Sarah Palin Looks Defeatable in The Undefeated
This documentary is straight hagiography, without nuance or ambiguity or the admission of opposing viewpoints.
- 7/14/11 /
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Movie Review: Winnie the Pooh Rises
Some films seem like they were made for DVD; this may be the first that seems like it was fashioned for the iPad.
- 7/8/11 /
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Movie Review: The Cast of Horrible Bosses Works Hard for the Money
Logan Hill on 'Bosses.'
- 7/8/11 /
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Movie Review: The Zookeeper Isn’t Wild Enough
'Zookeeper' couldn’t be more forgettable, but one scene should make history in the product-placement Hall of Fame.
- 7/7/11 /
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Movie Review: Beats Rhymes & Life Goes Behind the Music With A Tribe Called Quest
It’s a bit like a Rolling Stones doc that hurries through Altamont and 'Sticky Fingers' and zooms in on the Steel Wheels tour.
- 7/1/11 /
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Movie Review: Monte Carlo and the Problem With the Princess-for-a-Day Flick
Even within the manipulative Princess-for-a-Day genre, this is a chintzy knockoff.
- 6/30/11 /
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Movie Review: Terri Catches the Horror of High School, Without Vampires
Instead of a Jock, Princess, and Brain, defined and protected by their cliques, Terri, Chad, and Heather are each painfully and very believably alone: Fatso, Spaz, Slut.
- 6/29/11 /
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Movie Review: The Colossal, Stupendous, Ridiculously Amazing Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The film is gloriously, passionately synthetic.
- 6/24/11 /
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Movie Review: Cameron Diaz Is Deliciously Good As a Bad Teacher
She’s incorrigibly sleazy and opportunistic in the great American degenerate movie huckster tradition.
- 6/23/11 /
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Movie Review: In A Better Life, Worthiness Is a Vice
Carlos is never more than the idea of a man we should admire.
- 6/23/11 /
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Movie Review: With Cars 2, Pixar Finally Whiffs
It’s like giving Jar-Jar Binks his own movie.
- 6/17/11 /
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Movie Review: The Art of Getting By Is Cutesy and Predictable
Freddy Highmore plays George as if in a narcotized haze. He’s James Franco, Oscar host.
- 6/17/11 /
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Movie Review: The Farts and Flippers Comedy of Mr. Popper’s Penguins
This is straight-up silly slapstick.
- 6/17/11 /
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Movie Reviews: The Transfixing Buck and the Overeager Page One
Two documentaries open today.
- 6/17/11 /
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Movie Review: Green Lantern and the Color of Boredom
This film falls to Earth wicked fast.
- 6/10/11 /
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Movie Reviews: Trollhunter and One Lucky Elephant
'One Lucky Elephant' turns what might have been a big-tent attraction into a sideshow.
- 6/9/11 /
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Movie Review: The Trip Is Full of Good Impersonations and Bad Vibe
Michael Winterbottom’s and Steve Coogan’s larger agenda is to reveal the tragedy of “Coogan’s” life.
- 6/3/11 /
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Movie Review: Submarine Surfaces
Whereas Anderson’s hyper-referential films have become dioramas of Pantone-perfect dream homes, Ayoade’s stylized aesthetic feels more lived-in, and recognizably human.
- 6/3/11 /
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Movie Reviews: The Last Mountain and !Women Art Revolution
'The Last Mountain' is a passionate, partisan, and effective film about the perils of mountaintop coal mining.
- 6/3/11 /
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Movie Review: X-Men: First Class Is Pleasantly Second Rate
Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy elevate the proceedings.