- 11/24/10 /
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Movie Review: The Nutcracker in 3D — One Stinking Piece of Coal for Your Stocking
My daughter forgave me for taking her to this, but yours may not.
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- 11/23/10 /
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Buffy the Heartbreaker
Like everyone else, I’m appalled that Buffy the Vampire Slayer will come back as a feature film without the participation of Joss Whedon, who had the brainstorm for the character and never let it turn into a one-joke enterprise. What’s surprising in this latest turn is that no one’s writing about the real story.
- 11/18/10 /
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Movie Review: A Clumsy But Still Surprising The Next Three Days
Scene by scene, 'The Next Three Days' feels off.
- 11/11/10 /
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Movie Review: Morning Glory’s Cookie-Cutter Charm
The movie pokes fun at shallow, self-satisfied TV morning shows that are no less artificial than this chick flick.
- 11/5/10 /
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Movie Review: The Irregular Joys of Guy and Madeline
When it works, it catches you off guard: You go, in an instant, from exasperation to exhilaration.
- 11/4/10 /
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Movie Review: The Ick and Wow of 127 Hours Doesn’t Add Up to Much
Danny Boyle gives us a music-video-style exercise. There's nothing to take home apart from the dwindling memory of sensation.
- 11/4/10 /
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Movie Review: The Formulaic Due Date Is Better Than It Should Be
Downey's pitch-perfect deadpan and the seemingly delusional Galifianakis put the movie over.
- 10/22/10 /
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Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 2 Is One Scary Lack of Fun
The sequel to the 2007 original is at least not the dud 'Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows' was.
- 10/20/10 /
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Movie Review: Nora’s Will Is Hereafter Minus the Sap
The Mexican film 'Nora's Will,' in its wry, understated way, is a far more searching depiction of life after death than Clint Eastwood's mawkishly supernatural film.
- 10/15/10 /
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Movie Review: Red Is Graphic, Though Hardly Novel
The movie has an aura of hipness and a cast to die (in a hail of gunfire) for, but nothing can quite get it airborne.