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Cheerfully entertaining hokum once again, this time with better supporting players, makes for a very charming popcorn movie. The addition of two greats – Helen Mirren as the feisty and brilliant mother, and Ed Harris as The Villain – to the solid existing cast makes most every scene fun and inte… |
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An immensely well done piece of agitprop, built around Sean Penn’s Best Actor performance and featuring Gus Van Sant’s most fully realized directing effort, this admirable biopic presents a world apart, yet right next door to the one in which most of us live and were raised. Straights needn’t …
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Sean Penn displays a lightness of being.
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Painfully unfunny. Scratch that. A couple bits are funny. But those were mostly in the overexposed trailer, so were tired in the movie. Adding to the discomfort, Grown Ups uses a parade of bad parenting as its setup. These guys are such paternal wimps – and their wives such harpies – tha…
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The trailer way oversells the movie.
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Hugely funny, surprisingly dramatic, trenchantly trendy: Get Him to the Greek upholds the purple perfection of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, its prequel. Easily the best rockstar movie ever, it’s funnier and has better music than Spinal Tap…
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"You can't outrun me. I'm black." - ...
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As cheerfully commercial Christmas movies go, Love Actually is actually a crappy, er, great one. Stars aplenty populate ten mostly separate love stories, making for a generally lighthearted confection. Writer-director Richard Curtis is a master of these trendy RomComs. Like his "Four Weddings a…
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Cheerful Commercial Crap Video
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Inspiring tale of an inner-city high school basketball coach who went the distance for his players. |
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When it comes to grading Smokin’ Aces, I’m splitting the difference between Spaceghost’s Really Great and BrianSez’s Barely OK. My Good reflects the movie’s stellar cast and glimmering Vegas visuals. That said, it ain’t good in any moral sense. In fact it’s a sociopathic cesspool that not on…
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FBI partners Ryan Reynolds & Ray Liotta
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Man of Steel isn’t lite or frivolous, making it a disappointment to those expecting snark or bubblegum. Christopher Nolan takes heavyweight DC superheroes seriously, first producing, writing and directing The Dark Knight trilogy, an…
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A superior Jor-El begets a super Kal-El
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Gentle, affecting and amusing. More than a trifle though, given that the movie covers the full measure of Marley’s life, and the impact that he has on the five humans in his family. Great grown up date movie, especially for dog lovers and/or parents.
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The real Marley on the real book
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Steve Carell channels Jerry Lewis in this very funny comedy of manners. Mean on its face, it’s also cloyingly sweet on occasion, yet its mostly unerring humor slays all objections. Indeed the LOLs are never more than a few minutes away, especially when the “idiots” get untracked. Yes "idiots…
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Perfect Delivery: "Is it your back?"
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