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Will Smith plays the last man on earth in this third mov...
A young, handsome kid has extraordinary special powers vastly beyond the abilities of mere mortals. He is being chased by big, scary, ruthless, and relentless creatures with enormous weapons who h...
Tyler Perry's movies are review-proof. Not just because he does not let critics see them before they are released, knowing that his audience won't care about reviews, but because they do not lend ...
This film takes the most wrenching and universal dilemma of family life and turns it into a sitcom-y love letter to Sarah Jessica Parker. Not the character she plays, the whippet-thin, stiletto-w...
Paul Rust is 28, and looks it, maybe a little older. But in "I Love You, Beth Cooper" he plays Denis Cooverman, a high school valedictorian. Jack T. Carpenter, last seen playing a college student...
There are none so straight as those who pretend to be gay. That seems to be the premise of Adam Sandler’s latest slacker comedy. But its mild pleasures are spoiled by its belief that homophobi...
This feels like a fairy tale, so I will begin: "Once upon a time..."
...there was a princess who loved a commoner but was engaged to a cruel prince.
The commoner and the princess pl...
If you've see the ads with vulnerable cutie Adam Brody from "The O.C." kissing willowy cutie Kristen Stewart (the kid in Panic Room and growing up very nicely), you probably think it must be a roma...
In the future, according to this film, our currency will not be money but time. Everyone gets 25 years. Then the clock starts ticking down. If you have not earned, begged, borrowed, stolen, o...
Stop right now. I mean it, stop reading. If you have not already seen "Inception," there is nothing I can tell you that would not diminish your experience of this film. The less you know going i...
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Posted on Thursday March 14, 2013

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Some things are different. No more Nazis -- it is now a Cold War and the guys on the other side are the Soviets. And there may be enemies at home. A harmless-looking professor could be a Red. O...
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Posted on Thursday June 6, 2013
Werner Herzog continues his exploration of the darkness and the light within the human spirit with "Into the Abyss," a documentary about why and how we kill each other, in violation of the law and ...
This fourth movie version of the Jack Finney story about "body-snatchers" again reminds us that the scariest enemies are not creatures with sharp talons and teeth, aliens with super-powerful weapon...
Ricky Gervais has come up with a fresh and enticing premise but -- I have to be honest -- it is imperfectly executed. It has the gloss of a romantic comedy because it gives us the fun of knowing t...
Clint Eastwood tells the story of South Africa's triumph in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, the first World Cup after the end of apartheid. The title, "Invictus" comes from the inspiring
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Posted on Tuesday May 11, 2010
A performance by Meryl Streep of endless intelligence, skill, and sensitivity cannot keep this impressionistic portrait of Baroness Margaret Thatcher from being exactly the sort of sentimental nons...
With its first self-financed production, Marvel has produced one of the best superhero movies ever made, pure popcorn pleasure for its special effects, its story, its villain, and its hero. Direct...
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Iron Man 1, not so much the plot (a man puts on an iron suit and beats the bad guys) as what it ...
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Posted on Thursday May 2, 2013
A stressed-out teenager impetuously checks himself into a mental hospital in this semi-autobiographical tale based on
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Posted on Wednesday February 23, 2011