- 5/10/12 /
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Movie Review: Where Do We Go Now? Mirrors the Absurdity of War
A poignant and occasionally breathtaking movie about the civil war in Lebanon.
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- 5/4/12 /
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Movie Review: Ballet Doc First Position Is Light on Its Feet
The kids in this magical and grueling film enlarge our sense of what's physically and spiritually possible.
- 5/3/12 /
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Movie Review: Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Is Sweet But Clichéd
Maggie Smith saves the day, as usual.
- 4/27/12 /
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Jack Black Is Amusing, Empty in Richard Linklater’s Bernie
Jack Black stars in Richard Linklater's amusing film about a small-town Texas murder.
- 4/27/12 /
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Movie Review: The Five-Year Engagement Is a Reactionary Rom-Com
Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star in this charming film with an odd message.
- 4/20/12 /
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Movie Review: The Ruthless Precision of The Moth Diaries
This boarding school vampire movie is icy and exacting and makes your skin crawl.
- 4/20/12 /
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Movie Review: Think Like a Man Is Better Than Your Average Rom-Com
This is the battle of the sexes reimagined as competing reading groups.
- 4/20/12 /
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Movie Review: Zac Efron Is Bad at Brooding in The Lucky One
His beard looks painted on, and so does his edge.
- 4/13/12 /
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Movie Review: Lockout Is a Decent But Cluttered Thriller
After the first scene, the movie loses its witty economy.
- 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.
- 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.