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Maybe it is just too soon, maybe we are just too used to the high-gloss satire of "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show," maybe it's the kaleidoscopic structure, but this movie feels like a rou...
Is greed still good? Does greed still, for want of a better word, work?
Twenty-three years later, Gordon Gekko is back, still played by Oscar-winner Michael Douglas and now running short on money ...
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Posted on Friday December 23, 2011
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Posted on Sunday February 3, 2013
Imagine if Rocky, instead of fighting Apollo Creed, got into the ring with another Rocky. And they were brothers.
I know, I know, but somehow it works in a surprisingly affecting story of the ...
According to the ringmaster of the Benzini Brothers Traveling Circus, “a circus survives on blood, sweat, pain and [excrement].” In "Water for Elephants" we experience all of these, along wit...
“Family is a 24-7 reality che...
A romantic comedy needs to get us on the side of its couple as individuals and on the side of romance. This one fails by giving us characters so crude and unlikeable that even the star wattage of ...
No matter how carefully you plan and how diligently you read books like
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Posted on Thursday May 17, 2012
“He is calling from within the house.” What a line! Since the original version of When a Stranger Calls came out in 1979, that sentence -- packed with impending terror --has resonated with ba...
An exceptionally strong cast makes this fantasy romantic comedy trifle pleasantly watchable despite its chick-lit conventions. Kristen Bell is Beth, the (of course) supremely competent museum "cur...
Drew Barrymore has devoted more time than most people to growing up and has done it more publicly than most people, too. At age 34, she has been acting for nearly three decades. Here she makes he...
Fans of the original The Wicker Man appreciate the film for many reasons: Its dichotomy of paganism and Christianity, its skillful use of Celtic folk music, its eerie and overbearing ambience. Alth...
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It isn't so much that they have updated or re-invented the brilliantly acidic Claire Boothe Luce play that was adapted for a classic 1939 movie; they completely misunderstood it. The surface detai...
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Posted on Friday September 7, 2012
September 11, 2001 was one of those days that cleave history in two, forever separating the Before and the After as irrecovably as it separated those who were lost from those who survived. As we w...
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Posted on Thursday March 29, 2012
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