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The Ghost of Hunter Thompson An oddly tame adaptation of The Rum Diary.
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October 27, 2011
Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary is what the Brits might call a rum movie — an oddly inoffensive piece and a personal... More>>
Much Ado About Very Little The Shakespeare exposé no one has been waiting for in Anonymous.
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October 27, 2011
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare, the... More>>
Too Late to Succeed Dramatizing the financial crisis, tone-deaf to the times, in Margin Call.
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October 20, 2011
Sure to be drowned out by the drum circles at Occupy Wall Street, writer-director J.C. Chandor's lifeless Margin Call depicts roughly 36 hours at... More>>
Footloose 2011 There Will Always Be a Time to Dance
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October 13, 2011
In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary Flashdance,... More>>
The Ides of March Intrigue drowns out argument in political thriller.
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October 06, 2011
A procedural on the political manipulation of medium and message, George Clooney's fourth directorial effort is bookended with scenes of media-op... More>>
Real Steel Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Love 'Em Robots
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October 06, 2011
Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a two-bit trainer traveling the state fair circuit in a not-too-distant future. His line is robot fighting, a... More>>
50/50 Cancer memoir meets Seth Rogen comedy in the slightly uncomfortable film.
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September 29, 2011
One single scene captures the tricky tonal balance of Jonathan Levine's cancer comedy 50/50. Adam, the straightedge radio producer played by... More>>
Moneyball Field of Statistically Knowable Dreams
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September 22, 2011
At the time of this writing, the Oakland Athletics sit at a distant third in the American League West, 18 games behind the Texas Rangers managed... More>>
Drive: No Talk, All Action Ryan Gosling at the wheel in this glossy, retro, heist-gone-bad.
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September 15, 2011
As stripped down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most "American" movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding Refn. The... More>>
Sacrifice Nothing In the fantasy I Don't Know How She Does It, working moms can have it all.
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September 15, 2011
What I don't know: why these movies keep getting made. I Don't Know How She Does It is based on Allison Pearson's 2002 diaristic, comic... More>>
Contagion Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head.
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September 08, 2011
Currently the fifth-to-last film on Steven Soderbergh's ever-expanding pre-retirement slate, Contagion opens on day two of a global viral... More>>
Higher Ground Vera Farmiga tries save herself.
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September 01, 2011
At one point in Higher Ground, Vera Farmiga's decade-spanning directorial debut, the actress, playing Corinne, a woman still soaked with lake... More>>
Our Idiot Brother Long-haired dreamer has predictably profound effect on his siblings.
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August 25, 2011
In Jesse Peretz's Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd plays Ned, a kind of Upstate New York version of "The Dude" Lebowski — a man out of time,... More>>
One Day Life happens according to plan.
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August 18, 2011
Directed by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by David Nicholls, based on his novel, One Day stars Anne Hathaway as Emma, a... More>>
Barbarianism's Underrated Conan reboot, bloody good.
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August 18, 2011
A cinematic reboot for the patron saint of 98-pound weaklings, Conan the Barbarian is both truer to the vision of its character's creator, Robert... More>>
Mean Girls vs. the Maids Civil rights through a soft focus lens in The Help.
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August 11, 2011
More than just the Hollywood It Girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an ostentatious, Oscar-baiting Big... More>>
It's All in the Delivery Despite promise in its pizza boy premise, 30 Minutes or Less plays it too safe.
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August 11, 2011
Money-back guarantees feel like such a remnant of the old economy. Does the depressed consumer class even expect companies to make good on their... More>>
Invasion of Piracy Illegal downloading costs the film industry billions of dollars per year. But does the legal strategy designed to recoup this lost bounty amount to extortion?
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August 11, 2011
The bad news arrived in John Doe 2,057's mailbox in May. His wife unsealed a thick envelope from Comcast and read a carefully worded message... More>>
Earth Angel Can a radiant Brit Marling glow bright enough to carry her movie?
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August 11, 2011
There may be nothing as Old Hollywood as the narrative about a pretty girl summoning up a dose of pluck to triumph over adversity. And yet Brit... More>>
Simian Disobedience The making of a monkey activist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
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August 11, 2011
The latest descendant of the half-century old de-evolution concept that began with Pierre Boulle's novel Rise of the Planet of the Apes is an... More>>
The Change-Up Pissing Their Lives Away
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August 04, 2011
A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching comedy canon, The Change-Up stars Jason Bateman as standard-issue anal-retentive lawyer/family... More>>
Not Crazy Enough I Love You Phillip Morris directors fall short of their own high bar with the sweet but less-than- groundbreaking Crazy, Stupid, Love.
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July 28, 2011
In the first scene of Crazy, Stupid, Love, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her high school sweetheart and husband of 20-plus... More>>
How the West Was Really Won Gunslingers battle space invaders in movie mashup Cowboys & Aliens
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July 28, 2011
We begin in classic, saddle-sore terrain. A lone stranger with a mysterious past—Daniel Craig fills the boots here—rides into a... More>>
In the Face of Obstacles - 3-D Captain America ignores its roots for easy money.
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July 21, 2011
Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic books intended as an explicit... More>>
Final Destination Harry Potter — franchise king, hero of a generation — fights his last battle.
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July 14, 2011
After ten years, seven movies, six Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers, four directors, two dead parents, one grating house elf and... More>>
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