- 2/8/13 /
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Movie Review: Identity Thief Should Have Stolen More Laughs
Did you see Planes, Trains and Automobiles or Due Date? You get the point, then.
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- 2/6/13 /
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Edelstein: Soderbergh’s Side Effects Delivers Smooth, Shapely Suspense
Soderbergh’s last theatrical release mixes noir and pharmaceuticals.
- 2/1/13 /
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Edelstein on The Gatekeepers: Shedding Light on Israel’s Secret Service
Leaders of Israel’s secret service open up, sort of, in this Oscar-nominated doc.
- 2/1/13 /
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Edelstein on Bullet to the Head: On the Rock-Hard Sylvester Stallone As Camera Object
On its own degenerate terms, this movie, directed by auteur action darling Walter Hill, works.
- 2/1/13 /
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Movie Review: Warm Bodies Is a Zombie Rom-Com, Minus the Com
The film doesn’t have the conviction to follow through on its lame ideas, let alone its good ones.
- 2/1/13 /
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Edelstein on Koch: On the Day of His Death, an Entertaining Documentary on a Former Mayor’s Life
Whatever your view of its subject, Koch makes for a vital piece of New York history.
- 1/25/13 /
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Edelstein on Movie 43: Were These Actors Blackmailed to Appear in This Raunchy Fiasco?
It’s rare to see a piece of crap that actually looks and sounds like a piece of crap.
- 1/25/13 /
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Movie Review: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Is Obsessed With How Awesome It Thinks It Is
The good news is that the actors here appear to be having fun. The bad news is that we’re not.
- 1/18/13 /
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Ebiri on The Last Stand: One of Schwarzenegger’s Least ‘Ahnuld’-ian Action Films
Ahnuld is back, as he likes to say, in this action movie from Korean auteur Kim Jee-woon.
- 1/18/13 /
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Edelstein on Mama: A Welcome Jolt of Meaningful Scares
Starring Jessica Chastain, Mama reminds how and why good horror flicks work so well.
- 1/18/13 /
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Movie Review: Broken City Is a Grungy, Surprisingly Effective Neo-Noir
This Russell Crowe–Mark Wahlberg crime film is a welcome surprise in a genre sorely lacking in them of late.
- 1/11/13 /
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Edelstein: Gangster Squad Is Mobster Dinner Theater
It plays like an untalented 12-year-old’s imitation of Brian DePalma’s The Untouchables.
- 1/4/13 /
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Movie Review: 56 Up Is More Social Anthropology Than Psychology
The film misses out on intimacy.
- 1/4/13 /
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Movie Review: Texas Chainsaw 3D Leaves Little to the Imagination
The climax of Texas Chainsaw 3D is a bit more interesting and unpredictable than the usual horror-movie third act.
- 12/28/12 /
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Movie Review: Promised Land Is a Fracking Movie Scared of Its Own Politics
Movies like this sometimes make our critic ashamed to be a liberal.
- 12/21/12 /
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Movie Review: On the Road Is a Rambling, Beautiful Museum Piece
How to be faithful to a revolutionary work of the fifties without turning it into a musty period piece?
- 12/21/12 /
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Edelstein: Jack Reacher Already Feels Like It Belongs to Another Era
It’s painful to see author Lee Childs’s ex-military vigilante embodied by the diminutive Tom Cruise.
- 12/20/12 /
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Edelstein: David Chase’s Not Fade Away Is a Dream of the Sixties
A semi-autobiographical debut film from the creator of The Sopranos.
- 12/20/12 /
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Ebiri on The Impossible: The Calculated Tale of a Fateful Trip
Naomi Watts stars as the matriarch of a family torn apart by the 2004 tsunami.
- 12/20/12 /
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Edelstein: Django Unchained Is Manna for Mayhem Mavens
Every bullet generates a whoopee-cushion’s worth of red sauce.
- 12/18/12 /
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Edelstein: Haneke’s Amour Stares Coldly Into the Face of Human Agony
The German provocateur has discovered a real-world antagonist even more brutal than he is: time.
- 12/14/12 /
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Movie Review: Save the Date Is a Horror Rom-Com
Alison Brie and Lizzy Caplan are sisters in this alternately sweet and brutally real look at dating.
- 12/14/12 /
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Edelstein on The Hobbit and Its Distracting Frame Rate
"The Hobbit probably plays better at the normal frame rate, but how much better?"
- 12/10/12 /
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Edelstein: Zero Dark Thirty Is Borderline Fascistic ... and a Masterpiece
Let your liberal morals and cinematic appreciation fight it out.
- 12/10/12 /
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Edelstein: You’ve Got to Admire the Gumption of Les Misérables
The film's tasteless bombardment would, under most circumstances, send audiences screaming from the theater, but the film is going to be a monster hit and award winner, and not entirely unjustly.