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Adventureland
Really Great 93 Points 2009

Terrific coming of age romantic-comedy, mildly raunchy and plenty knowing. Not tremendously LOL though studded with laughs, many from killer funny throwaway lines. Plus it’s a well crafted, well developed story about a set of characters who become more interesting as the movie progresses.

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Brüno
Really Great 22 Points 2009

Were you offended by “Borat?” Then you’ll HATE this movie. However, if you’re ready to feel more uncomfortable than you’ve felt in a long time and can laugh at truly funny situations, then you need to watch this movie. From getting Paula Abdul to talk about human rights issues while sitting on Me…

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Serious Moonlight
Really Great 8 Points 2009

This film is about Louise and Ian. Louise is a lawyer that is planning on spending a weekend with her husband. When Louise comes home to surprise Ian, she sees flowers all over the house and thinks that its for her, that he was trying to surprise her at the same time. Ian sets the flowers in plac…

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Win Win
Really Great 88 Points 2011

Win Win has become such a cliche, yet is anything but in the entirely winning movie of that title. Cleverly mining today’s uneven economy, the uneasy equality of modern marriages, the unjust world of neglected kids, and not least, the under-appreciated sport of high school wrestling, Win Win

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Shakespeare in ...
Really Great 66 Points 1998

Delicious fun this Elizabethan confection, a Shakespearean extravaganza just this side of full Disnefication.

Superior cast, especially Joseph Fiennes & Gwyneth Paltrow as Romeo & Juliet, er, Will & Viola.
Which Will? Will Shakespeare, sometime actor, full-time rake and pageman for hire.

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WikChip Image The Bard – As You Like It, er, Him
Punch-Drunk Love
Really Great 66 Points 2002

At first blush, Punch-Drunk Love presents as merely a high-toned Adam Sandler movie. But hold on Sandler haters, this movie is celebrated by people who wouldn’t be caught dead watching Happy Gilmore. Why? Because it’s a great Hollywood romance, a symp…

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WikChip Image From SNL nebbish to bona fide moviestar
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Breakfast on Pluto
Really Great 6 Points 2005

This movie will literally have you laughing one minute, outraged another, and crying the next. A roller coaster ride of emotion and sharply written dialogue keeps this story interesting and moving along at a nice pace.

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Out of Sight
Really Great 66 Points 1998
Out of Sight and into the pantheon of crime-comedies – start with Stephen Soderburgh directing George Clooney in an Elmore Leonard story. Speaking of gorgeous, J-Lo gets into the trunk with G-Cloo.

Other positives: Bright bluesy opening; Danny DeVito’s Jersey Films producing; Clooney, youn…

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To Be or Not to Be
Really Great 3 Points 1942

Although “To Be Or Not To Be” is considered to be one of the great film comedies, both its public and critical reception was mixed when it came out.

Benny and Lombard play a bickering but loving couple who run a theater in Warsaw when the Nazis invade Poland in 1939. What follows is an unlike…

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The Descendants
Really Great 83 Points 2011

Descendents descend from families. The Descendants is about concentric families in crisis: an exploding nuclear family, a feuding extended family, an enduring multigenerational family. They all center on George Clooney’s reluctant patriarch, the trustee of a landed Hawaiian dynasty.

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WikChip Image A family rediscovers paradise. Aloha.