- 4/13/12 /
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Movie Review: The Farrelly Brothers’ Three Stooges Is a Wonder
The movie actually earns the right to exist, which is no mean feat.
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- 4/13/12 /
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Movie Review: Detention Is a Future Cult Classic
This frantic, deranged mash-up is being billed as a hip teen slasher movie, but it’s more like The Breakfast Club meets Donnie Darko.
- 4/6/12 /
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Movie Review: American Reunion Provides Comfortingly Predictable Pleasures
It’s good to see the original American Pie cast back on the big screen, resurrected along with their beloved characters.
- 4/5/12 /
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Movie Review: Titanic Was Mediocre in 1997, But Is Smashing in 3-D
You'll be drawn into the story as never before.
- 3/30/12 /
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Movie Review: Wrath of the Titans Is a Missed Opportunity
It’s better than Clash, but it’s still not particularly good.
- 3/30/12 /
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Movie Review: Lily Collins’s Eyebrows Steal Mirror, Mirror
You can’t miss them. They are black and perhaps twice as thick as the eyes they o’erloom.
- 3/30/12 /
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Movie Review: The Ultraviolent Goon Is Also Ultrastrange
It's a cross between The Waterboy and Raging Bull.
- 3/23/12 /
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Movie Reviews: The Meditative Deep Blue Sea and Murderous The Raid: Redemption
Terence Davies directs a raw, emotional tale of adultery; Gareth Huw Evans makes violence equally repulsive and compelling.
- 3/23/12 /
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Movie Review: Bully May Not Be Art, But It’s a Wildly Effective Documentary
This gets an R-rating but The Hunger Games slides as PG-13?
- 3/22/12 /
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Movie Review: The Slick Hunger Games Purges All the Horror
The adaptation is sharp, but why doesn't all this kid-killing feel more devastating?
- 3/16/12 /
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Movie Review: Nicolas Cage and January Jones Are a Deadly Study in Opposites in Seeking Justice
He's not up to his usual apoplexy, but next to the somnambulant Jones, anyone would seem like they were.
- 3/16/12 /
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Movie Review: 21 Jump Street Is an Agreeable Shambles
What does it mean when we take these TV properties and turn them into cinematic jokes?
- 3/13/12 /
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Movie Review: Why Were Audiences So Outraged by Silent House?
The crappy buzz? Not entirely accurate.
- 3/9/12 /
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Movie Review: An Overly Cartoonish Eddie Murphy Ruins A Thousand Words
Murphy hams it up to such an unnatural degree that he scrubs every moment clean of wit or charm.
- 3/9/12 /
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John Carter Isn’t the Worst Film Ever Made
There’s no wonder or elation or even dopy sincerity here — just a high level of proficiency and, yes, a lot of expensive CGI.
- 3/2/12 /
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Movie Review: Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie Is Irreverent, Zany, and Sometime Boring
As is traditional, a surreal smorgasbord of poop, disease, penile mutilation, and carnage ensues.
- 3/2/12 /
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The Badness of The Lorax Is a Shock
The misbegotten new animated feature is somebody’s The Lorax, but Seuss’s? Not hardly.
- 3/1/12 /
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Movie Review: The Hedonistic, Plotless, Deeply Adolescent Project X
Think Girls Gone Wild meets Black Hawk Down.
- 2/25/12 /
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Movie Review: Gone Tries for Absurdist, and Not in a Good Way
This just takes the whole what's-reality-and-what's-in-her-head schtick too far.
- 2/24/12 /
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Movie Review: Wanderlust Wrings New Laughs Out of a Weary Idea
It’s the great American (hash) pipe dream.
- 2/24/12 /
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Movie Review: Tyler Perry’s Dry, Dull Good Deeds
It's enough to make you miss Madea.
- 2/23/12 /
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Movie Review: Act of Valor, an Excellent Recruitment Video and a Subpar Movie
So, what does a movie starring real-life Navy SEALs doing (sort of) real-life Navy SEAL things look like?
- 2/17/12 /
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Movie Review: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Doesn’t Go Far Enough Over the Top
Despite the coked-out charm of the directors from Crank.
- 2/17/12 /
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Movie Review: The Laughless, Thrilless This Means War
Does Reese Witherspoon think that the female audience won’t bond with her if she seems too willful?
- 2/16/12 /
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Movie Review: Thin Ice, the Not-Quite Fargo
Close, but no wood chipper.