- 4/5/13 /
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Jurassic Park 3-D Review: Aging Effects Just Make It More of a Classic
The effects may have lost some of their novelty, but the film has gained some surprising profundity in twenty years.
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- 4/4/13 /
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Edelstein on Trance: Just Revel in Danny Boyle’s Senseless Showmanship
The film stars James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson.
- 4/4/13 /
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Edelstein: Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color Is Totally Baffling. See It Anyway.
The second film from the director of Sundance time-traveling hit Primer is a real mind-twister.
- 3/29/13 /
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Edelstein: Room 237 Is a Cine-Nerd’s Vindication and Humiliation
This documentary looks at some theories (You decide whether they're crazy or not) about Kubrick's The Shining.
- 3/29/13 /
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Movie Review: The Host Is a Conflicted Film — Part Potential Camp Classic, Part Melancholy Meditation
Andrew Niccol’s adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novel stars Saoirse Ronan.
- 3/28/13 /
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Movie Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation Is Missing That Wonderful G.I. Joe Silliness
We could easily just be watching outtakes from The Expendables or The A-Team or The Losers.
- 3/28/13 /
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Edelstein: There’s a Lot of Empty Space in The Place Beyond the Pines
Ryan Gosling can't save this overreaching film.
- 3/22/13 /
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Movie Review: The Croods Is an Animated Tale Smart Enough for a Caveman
Like Fox's Ice Age films, this caveman story has similar fun juxtaposing prehistoric reality with modern gags.
- 3/22/13 /
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Edelstein on Olympus Has Fallen: Hollywood Has Made Us a Vengeful Nation
This revenge-happy "White House under siege" movie is a disgusting piece of work, but it certainly hits its marks.
- 3/21/13 /
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Edelstein: Admission Is Tina Fey’s Application to the School of Mainstream Rom-Coms
Tina Fey and Paul Rudd star in the disappointingly by-the-numbers movie.
- 3/15/13 /
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Movie Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Reminds Us That Jim Carrey Can Be Hilarious
The rest of the movie is another matter entirely.
- 3/13/13 /
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Edelstein: Is Spring Breakers One of the Perviest Movies Ever Made?
Starring Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, this beach-party pic is a giant middle finger in Disney's direction.
- 3/8/13 /
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Movie Review: In Another Movie, Dead Man Down Would Be the Movie Satire
Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace star in this revenge film directed by Niels Arden Oplev.
- 3/8/13 /
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Edelstein: Oz the Great and Powerful Is Peculiarly Joyless
James Franco is generally unconvincing as the title character in this 3-D prequel.
- 3/1/13 /
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Movie Review: 21 and Over, a.k.a. Dudes and Their Butts: The Motion Picture
The film’s young audience of horny boys may actually be perturbed at the endless male nudity on display.
- 3/1/13 /
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Movie Review: The Last Exorcism Part II Is Possessed by the Jump Scare Demon
Fooled you! That last exorcism? Totally wasn't the last one.
- 2/28/13 /
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Edelstein on Stoker: No Sympathy for This Lady Vengeance
The first English-language film from Oldboy director Park Chan-wook.
- 2/27/13 /
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Edelstein on Jack the Giant Slayer: Fast, Rousing, and Blessedly Brief
The latest from director Bryan Singer.
- 2/22/13 /
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Ebiri on Snitch: Face It, Everyone — the Rock Can Act
In this new crime thriller, The Rock stars as a father who joins the drug trade to help his son.
- 2/15/13 /
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Edelstein on Like Someone in Love: Abbas Kiarostami’s Latest Is Tricky, Enthralling
The Iranian director's latest is set in Japan.