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July 1, 2011
Movie Review: Monte Carlo and the Problem With the Princess-for-a-Day Flick Even within the manipulative Princess-for-a-Day genre, this is a chintzy knockoff.
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June 30, 2011
Movie Review: Terri Catches the Horror of High School, Without Vampires Instead of a Jock, Princess, and Brain, defined and protected by their cliques, Terri, Chad, and Heather are each painfully and very believably alone: Fatso, Spaz, Slut.
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June 23, 2011
Movie Review: In A Better Life , Worthiness Is a Vice Carlos is never more than the idea of a man we should admire.
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June 23, 2011
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June 17, 2011
Movie Review: The Art of Getting By Is Cutesy and Predictable Freddy Highmore plays George as if in a narcotized haze. He’s James Franco, Oscar host.
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June 17, 2011
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June 10, 2011
Movie Reviews: Trollhunter and One Lucky Elephant ’One Lucky Elephant’ turns what might have been a big-tent attraction into a sideshow.
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June 3, 2011
Movie Review: Submarine Surfaces Whereas Anderson’s hyper-referential films have become dioramas of Pantone-perfect dream homes, Ayoade’s stylized aesthetic feels more lived-in, and recognizably human.
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June 3, 2011
Movie Reviews: The Last Mountain and !Women Art Revolution ’The Last Mountain’ is a passionate, partisan, and effective film about the perils of mountaintop coal mining.
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May 27, 2011
Movie Reviews: Mr. Nice , Tuesday, After Christmas , and Puzzle Rhys Ifans is marvelously louche as a drug dealer in ‘Mr. Nice,’ but the rise-and-fall tale is too familiar.
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May 26, 2011
Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda 2 Is Fast, Fun, and a Little Disturbed It gets a little weird and dark, but the spazzy sequel mostly delivers the same beautifully animated goofball shenanigans as the first.
May 26, 2011
Where One Man Has Gone Before James McAvoy on prebooting X-Men’s Professor X.
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May 20, 2011
Movie Reviews: Louder Than a Bomb and Florent: Queen of the Meat Market , Two Docs That Won’t Depress You! Positive reprieves in the form of an emotionally powerful poetry slam competition and the birth of fabulous in the meatpacking district.
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May 13, 2011
Priest Is A SinThe film seems to speed by, but actually it’s just short.
Which Loud Summer Action Movie Is Right for You? Do you like your heroes drunk and weird or preposterously beefy? What kind of jewelry do they wear? We can help steer you to the right film.
May 6, 2011
Hypothetical Gaga Seventeen designers and artists reimagine the pop star.
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Apr. 29, 2011
Movie Reviews: The Arbor , 13 Assassins , Sympathy for Delicious Three indies, including actor Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut.
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Apr. 21, 2011
Tribeca Film Festival’s Breakout Doc Director: Alma Har’el She pairs vérité footage with staged, theatrical dance sequences in ‘Bombay Beach.’
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Apr. 18, 2011
25 Films to See at the Tribeca Film Festival We’ve screened nearly all of the fest’s 93 movies: Here are the tickets you want to buy.
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Apr. 8, 2011
Three Movie Reviews: Henry’s Crime , Ceremony , and Blank City All your indie-film questions answered in one critical roundup.
The Very Talkative Russell Brand on Fame, Kids, Charlie Sheen, and More The man will riff on anything, and we have the outtakes from his big profile interview to prove it.
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Apr. 1, 2011
Movie Review: Super It’s Not A scatterbrained film that sucks up the essence of so many other superheroes it loses any sense of a distinct identity.
Mar. 31, 2011
Brand Russell With Arthur, the comedian’s outrageous persona gets tweaked.
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Mar. 18, 2011
Mel Gibson’s Compelling Performance in The Beaver The movie got a warm response from the audience at the premiere. But it’s hard to tell if that was because it was presented by its beloved director, Jodie Foster.
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Mar. 17, 2011
Movie Review: Flimsy Limitless Could Use One of Its Own Pills ’Limitless,’ like any cheap high, is a quick rush followed by a crushing sense of emptiness.
Logan Hill, SXSW Film Juror, Explains Why You Need to Watch for Natural Selection The ambitious sperm-donor/odd-couple comedy tries many things, and succeeds at all of them. And we have a clip.
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Mar. 11, 2011
7 Reasons Why Video Games Are Better Than Battle: L.A. ’Battle: L.A.’ not only reminds you of the relative genius of Michael Bay, it pales in comparison to even a mediocre first-person shooter.
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Mar. 10, 2011
Red Riding Hood Can’t Escape the Shadow of Twilight Director Catherine Hardwicke is beaten by her own film.
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Mar. 8, 2011
Movie Review: Mars Needs Moms — and Better Animation The film is the swan song of Robert Zemeckis’s ImageMovers, an animation company that will be remembered for creating the creepiest, not-quite-human CGI.
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Mar. 4, 2011
Movie Review: Beastly Is Ghastly How do you make “Beauty and the Beast” — an enchanting story, thousands of years old — palatable to a young movie audience? Dumb it down!
Hear Susan Boyle Sing the Theme for Trippy Anime Film Welcome to the Spaceshow In which we learn that wasabi is one of the most valuable substances in the universe.
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Mar. 4, 2011
Movie Review: Happythankyoumoreplease Tests the Limits of Josh Radnor’s Charm The ‘How I Met Your Mother’ star’s writer-director debut is an upbeat rom-com and the work of a blessed man.
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Mar. 3, 2011
Review: Look Out, Buzz Lightyear, Here Comes Rango With ILM and Gore Verbinski’s thrillingly goofy, unabashedly strange, Johnny Depp–voiced Western odyssey, there’s a new animation powerhouse in Toon Town.
Mar. 3, 2011
Through a Glass Darkly After her dragon-slaying Alice, Mia Wasikowska goes goth as Jane Eyre.
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Feb. 25, 2011
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Blogger With a Quill Oscar nominee Geoffrey Rush moves from a king’s speech to a madman’s diary.
Jan. 20, 2011
57 Minutes With Melissa Leo The Fighter’s steely scene-stealer makes the most of her second spin through awards season, while wearing skinny jeans not of h […]
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Jan. 12, 2011
Vulture’s List of 100 Things to Look Forward To in 2011 Whether you agree with our rankings or not, at least there’s plenty to salivate over.
Jan. 6, 2011
The Quiet Man How Chris Cooper turns angst into art.
2010’s 25 Best Performances That Won’t Win Oscars We loved these actors, and they don’t have a chance in hell at the Academy Awards.
The Walking Dead Recap: A Bang That’s a WhimperSeriously, that ticking coundown clock is so MacGruber .
The 12 Nastiest Moments From The Walking Dead Wait, is that Legolas with the crossbow? Doesn’t that zombie look like the old lady from ‘Drag Me to Hell’?
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