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The Cabin in the Woods Built to impress, Cabin in the Woods can't see the forest for the trees.
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April 12, 2012
At the end of The Cabin in the Woods, the world is destroyed by an apocalyptic hand of fate — an actual hand, mind you — yet that is... More>>
Titanic 3D The shelf life of Clinton-era nostalgia is tested.
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April 05, 2012
A historical romance with a then-unheard-of price tag, James Cameron's 1997 Titanic was the nearest thing to a Gone with the Wind-style cinematic... More>>
American Reunion The shelf life of Clinton-era nostalgia is tested.
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April 05, 2012
Another defining coming-of-age love story of the Clinton era, 1999's American Pie, has expanded into a saga far more epic — and rather more... More>>
Footnote Father and son Talmudic scholars grapple with each other and the truth in Footnote.
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March 29, 2012
In the first scene of Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a fortysomething Talmudic... More>>
The Raid Cops versus thugs in high-powered high-rise fight flick The Raid.
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March 29, 2012
Lean, fast-moving, and filled with game-changing fight sequences that have a brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) quality, Gareth Evans's... More>>
The Hunger Games The Hunger Games rages against our stupid culture, and becomes part of the problem.
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March 22, 2012
"If no one watches, then they don't have a game," a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne... More>>
Being Flynn Being Flynn can't stop telling us exactly what to feel.
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March 22, 2012
Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which explored... More>>
21 Jump Street Bro, how times have changed: 21 Jump Street now a buddy comedy.
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March 15, 2012
The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as high schoolers, debuted on Fox in 1987 — one year after the network... More>>
Jeff, Who Lives at Home A stoner goes after his date with destiny in Jeff, Who Lives at Home.
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March 15, 2012
It's obvious that Jason Segel has a face for comedy. He's got a lumpy, sad-sack mug with a dozen inflections to register disappointment,... More>>
Fathers & Sons in Suck City Being Flynn can't stop telling us exactly what to feel.
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March 15, 2012
Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which explored... More>>
Silent House Reality-horror gets a questionable upgrade in Silent House.
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March 08, 2012
The foundations of Silent House are laid atop La Casa Muda, a nil-budget 2010 Uruguayan horror film that enjoyed an afterlife in international... More>>
Friends with Kids An unconventional parenting setup in a highly standard rom-com.
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March 08, 2012
In the opening scene of Friends with Kids, a conspicuously placed copy of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion on the bedside table of Jason (Adam... More>>
Lost in America A couple goes searching for a lifestyle that fits in Wanderlust.
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February 23, 2012
"There's no one way to live our lives," hopes the displaced, adrift couple at the center of Wanderlust. Shopping between the prefab identity... More>>
This Means War As two pals fight over Reese Witherspoon, This Means War sticks to the script.
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February 16, 2012
Hostilities in This Means War are declared as two workmates compete for the affection of the same woman. The contested objective is Lauren (Reese... More>>
The Secret World of Arrietty Tiny hidden humans meet the neighbors in Arrietty.
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February 16, 2012
Synonymous with the humanistic, eco-minded, pastel-hued elegance of Japanese filmmaker and animation virtuoso Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away),... More>>
A Separation You are the judge in the high-stakes Iranian legal drama A Separation.
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February 16, 2012
A Separation — the fifth feature by Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi — is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you... More>>
The Vow Rachel McAdams gets the sense knocked out of her in The Vow.
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February 16, 2012
The Vow, a full-bodied lunge for the heartstrings, has a humdinger of a premise, forcing its characters to face a question that most of us ask... More>>
Safe House Ryan Reynolds's bod is the asset in men-on-the-run thriller Safe House.
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February 09, 2012
"He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan Reynolds... More>>
The Innkeepers There's no room for indulgence at the Ti West Inn.
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February 02, 2012
Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror... More>>
Pina Big emotions and an extra dimension in Pina.
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January 26, 2012
"You just have to get crazier" were the words of advice mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave to one of her dancers, who fondly recalls the... More>>
We Need to Talk About Kevin Tilda Swinton and her problem child in We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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January 26, 2012
In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian's worst nightmare. Forced to give up her independence... More>>
Some Nouns, Some Verbs and 9/11 Bald eagles will weep for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
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January 19, 2012
Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn't like: After 2002's The Hours, a lugubrious women's-problem picture touching on AIDS... More>>
The Divide Survivors of a nuclear disaster scratch each other's eyes out in The Divide.
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January 19, 2012
A mushroom cloud blooms over Manhattan at the opening of The Divide. We see it reflected in the tearful eyes of Eva (Lauren German), who'll spend... More>>
Haywire Steven Soderbergh and his MMA star make impact with Haywire.
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January 19, 2012
There's a point in Haywire when the film's protagonist, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), gone rogue from her job as hired muscle for a... More>>
In the Land of Blood and Honey Hollywood goes to Bosnia in The Land of Blood and Honey.
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January 19, 2012
It's 1992 at the start of In the Land of Blood and Honey, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook up at a Bosnian... More>>
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