- 10/5/12 /
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Edelstein on Taken 2: Look Who’s Taken Now
Rated PG-13, this sequel could have done with a tad more splatter.
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- 10/5/12 /
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Movie Review: Butter Is One Thinly Spread Political Satire
The onslaught of quirk here is offset only by the onslaught of heavy-handed political allegory.
- 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.
- 9/28/12 /
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Edelstein on Pitch Perfect: This A Cappella Musical Comedy Sings the Sweetest Song
It's the year’s most exhilarating pick-me-up.
- 9/28/12 /
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Movie Review: Won’t Back Down Strives for Outrage, But Settles for Clichés
The war between parents and jaded teachers had to be more clever to warrant all the prerelease protests.
- 9/27/12 /
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Edelstein: The Time Traveling Looper Delivers in Spite of Iffy Logic
You must remember this: The fundamental things don’t apply as time goes by in the ballyhooed time-travel thriller Looper.
- 9/21/12 /
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Edelstein on Trouble With the Curve: An Innocuous Drama That Exposes the Eastwood Worldview
Eastwood plays an aging baseball scout in this formulaic drama.
- 9/21/12 /
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Movie Review: In End of Watch, the Cops Are Actually the Good Guys for Once
There’s nothing here that you haven’t already seen, but the film has moments so riveting that you might not care too much.
- 9/21/12 /
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Movie Review: Dredd 3D Is One Great Big Beautiful Violent Music Video
And there's nothing wrong with that.
- 9/20/12 /
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Edelstein: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Nails Teenage Alienation
Emma Watson stars in this exquisite adaption of the best-selling YA novel.
- 9/14/12 /
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Movie Review: 10 Years Is a High School Reunion Movie Packed With Stars, But No Actual People
Lots of stars: Channing Tatum, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Rosario Dawson ...
- 9/13/12 /
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Movie Review: In Arbitrage, Richard Gere Makes Us Root for a Madoffian Villain
This new financial drama places us smack-dab at the center of an amoral universe.
- 9/9/12 /
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Edelstein: There Won’t Be Blood in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Chilly, Cerebral The Master
A piece of stark, often abrasive American mythmaking.
- 9/7/12 /
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Edelstein on The Words: Nothing But Aimless Words, Words, Words
Plagiarism’s all the rage-arism in this Bradley Cooper film.
- 9/7/12 /
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Movie Review: Keep the Lights On Is an Obsessive, Intimate Relationship Drama
Ira Sachs’s haunting, melancholy film charts a multi-year love affair between two men.
- 8/31/12 /
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Edelstein on Sleepwalk With Me: This Comedian’s Life
This autobiographical monologue-film stars and is directed by funnyman Mike Birbiglia.
- 8/31/12 /
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Movie Review: The Possession Is Intriguing Until, You Know, the Actual Possession Part
It's basically a Jewish version of The Exorcist.
- 8/31/12 /
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Edelstein on Bachelorette and For a Good Time, Call...: Uneven But Ballsy
Two films in which girls talk dirty.
- 8/29/12 /
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Edelstein on Lawless: A Standard Revenge Film Played at Half-Speed
John Hillcoat's latest is dead weight: listlessly classical and then bludgeoning.
- 8/24/12 /
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Edelstein on Premium Rush: When a Chase Picture Is Thankfully Just a Chase Picture
This film is a rare bird — one that pretends to be nothing more than it is.