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Movie Review: In 42, If You’re Good at Baseball, Nothing Else Really Matters
In this Jackie Robinson biopic, the great American gods of capitalism and baseball triumph over racism, provincialism, and ignorance.
Edelstein on To the Wonder: Round and Round It Swirls. Where It Stops, Who the Hell Knows?
Terrence Malick's latest hunts for big ideas, but doesn't turn up much.
Movie Review: Redford’s The Company You Keep Is Almost Confrontational in Its Classicism
A welcome return to form for Redford the director, if not Redford the star.
Edelstein on Evil Dead: Years From Now, Will Anyone Choose to Watch This Over the Original?
Sam Raimi, who directed the original, co-produced this remake.
Jurassic Park 3-D Review: Aging Effects Just Make It More of a Classic
The effects may have lost some of their novelty, but the film has gained some surprising profundity in twenty years.
Edelstein on Trance: Just Revel in Danny Boyle’s Senseless Showmanship
The film stars James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson.
Edelstein: Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color Is Totally Baffling. See It Anyway.
The second film from the director of Sundance time-traveling hit Primer is a real mind-twister.
Edelstein: Room 237 Is a Cine-Nerd’s Vindication and Humiliation
This documentary looks at some theories (You decide whether they're crazy or not) about Kubrick's The Shining.
Movie Review: The Host Is a Conflicted Film — Part Potential Camp Classic, Part Melancholy Meditation
Andrew Niccol’s adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novel stars Saoirse Ronan.
Movie Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation Is Missing That Wonderful G.I. Joe Silliness
We could easily just be watching outtakes from The Expendables or The A-Team or The Losers.
Edelstein: There’s a Lot of Empty Space in The Place Beyond the Pines
Ryan Gosling can't save this overreaching film.
Movie Review: The Croods Is an Animated Tale Smart Enough for a Caveman
Like Fox's Ice Age films, this caveman story has similar fun juxtaposing prehistoric reality with modern gags.
Edelstein on Olympus Has Fallen: Hollywood Has Made Us a Vengeful Nation
This revenge-happy "White House under siege" movie is a disgusting piece of work, but it certainly hits its marks.
Edelstein: Admission Is Tina Fey’s Application to the School of Mainstream Rom-Coms
Tina Fey and Paul Rudd star in the disappointingly by-the-numbers movie.
Movie Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Reminds Us That Jim Carrey Can Be Hilarious
The rest of the movie is another matter entirely.
Edelstein: Is Spring Breakers One of the Perviest Movies Ever Made?
Starring Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, this beach-party pic is a giant middle finger in Disney's direction.
Movie Review: In Another Movie, Dead Man Down Would Be the Movie Satire
Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace star in this revenge film directed by Niels Arden Oplev.
Edelstein: Oz the Great and Powerful Is Peculiarly Joyless
James Franco is generally unconvincing as the title character in this 3-D prequel.
Movie Review: 21 and Over, a.k.a. Dudes and Their Butts: The Motion Picture
The film’s young audience of horny boys may actually be perturbed at the endless male nudity on display.
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