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A character in this movie's version of the Catholic organization Opus Dei explains that their mission is to follow doctrine very strictly. That was director Ron Howard's secular mission as well wi...
No one is better than Steve Carell at playing clenched. In "Dan in Real Life," he plays a character so clenched he just about levitates off the ground. Dan is an advice columnist and a single paren...
"Dark" is right. Christopher Nolan's sequel to his
Batman Begins is not only dark; it is searing and disturbing. The ba...
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Posted on Wednesday July 18, 2012
"Dark Shadows" tries to sink its teeth into the legendary 1960's supernatural soap opera with both ironic distance and visceral thrills. It can be done -- see the original "Men in Black" -- but ...
I counted references to 23 movies in this 80-minute film, not including Girls Gone Wild and "The Bachelor," or about one every three and a half minutes. Throw in a couple of songs and a dozen or s...
Putting Tina Fey and Steve Carell together seems so natural it's hard to believe that it took this long. Both are funny in part because they let us see how smart they are. The characters they pla...
Nicholas Sparks writes the equivalent of comfort food, high-carb, low-nutrition, but sometimes it hits the spot. His stories usually feature relationships that are not just true and deep and lovin...
"Definitely, Maybe" is the s...
A heart-pounding thriller with a time-travel twist, "Deja Vu" will not leave you thinking you've seen it all before.
Denzel Washington plays Doug Carlin, an
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Posted on Monday November 20, 2006
It's not just that an interview with a rock star while he is in the dentist's chair having his teeth drilled is far from the weirdest thing in this movie. It's more that the whole story is so weir...
It is just too bad Meryl Streep is so good at drama and suffering and accents and stuff like that because that means we don't get enough of a chance to see how brilliantly funny she is. Her under-...
I have seldom seen the stars of a movie look as thoroughly uncomfortable as Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant in this drearily low-concept would-be comedy, "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" Park...
The truest comedy is the laugh of recognition and enlightenment. You won't find much of that in this crass and crude remake of the French film, "The Dinner Game." What you will find instead is th...
This nicely nifty little thriller takes Hitchcock's classic
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Posted on Wednesday April 11, 2007
Think Bad News Bears crossed with Happy Gilmore. Except with dodgeball, which means many, many opportunities for humorous slams to the head, chest, and crotch. That pretty much sums it up.
Before movies, there were plays, and before plays there were stories told around the campfire. One of the deepest human impulses is the need to tell our stories in part because of the way they hel...
If my movie reviews had headlines, this one's would be: "A Star is Born." More like a Supernova. Jennifer Hudson explodes onto screen in this incendiary production of the Broadway musical inspire...
Like Adam Sandler, Judd Apatow has tried to exte...
Kiera Knightley plays 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire in this muddled but eye-filling saga of an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales, who shared her status as a fashion ic...
What do Egyptian launch codes and a new frozen pizza topping have in common?
They're both secrets that are of value to both those who know it and those who want to know it. Where there are secr...
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