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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>>
White Man's Lament It's hard out there for an employed, middle-class, white-collar male in Horrible Bosses.
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July 07, 2011
There's a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist... More>>
Middle of the Road Tom Hanks ages into mid-life obsolescence in the middling Larry Crowne.
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June 30, 2011
For a movie called Larry Crowne, it sure is tough to get a solid read on the character of Larry Crowne. Directed, co-written by and starring Tom... More>>
Funny Like a Not Funny Guy Bad Teacher and the downside of equal rights in Hollywood.
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June 23, 2011
From Tad Friend's New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline "Hollywood Insiders Admit Hollywood Hates... More>>
Life's Second Act Graphic artist Mike Mills starts something new with Beginners.
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June 23, 2011
Playing an emotionally asphyxiated illustrator whose cancer-stricken dad comes out of the closet at age 75, Ewan McGregor looks positively yummy... More>>
The Whitest Kids U Don't Want to Know Dull teens, timid movie give adolescence a bad name, in Art.
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June 16, 2011
Gavin Wiesen's first film, as passive and vanilla as its title, continues the numbing trendlet begun in 2008 with Nick and Norah's Infinite... More>>
Difficult Gifts What Terrence Malick has to offer is worth working for.
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June 09, 2011
Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn and a roadside Texas barbecue, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life... More>>
Flirting with Disaster J.J. Abrams deploys humor and destruction in his super fun, super loud catastrophe flick Super 8.
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June 09, 2011
Abig-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams's much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Opening three weeks... More>>
Woody Allen's Way-Back Machine Investigating the problem of time in Midnight in Paris.
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June 02, 2011
Anebbishy screenwriter who longs to publish a novel, Gil (Owen Wilson) is tentatively working on a book set in a nostalgia shop — much to... More>>
Bros Roofie'ing Bros The Hangover Part II: Didn't we already see this movie?
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May 26, 2011
Most sequels are born of good box office rather than good ideas — if you build it and they come, you simply must build another one —... More>>
Captain Jack Won't Die Searching for eternal life in the interminable Pirates of the Caribbean.
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May 19, 2011
After sinking into self-important tedium with its prior two overstuffed installments, Pirates of the Caribbean seemed destined for permanent... More>>
This Is a Man's World A comedy written by and starring women, Bridesmaids still screwed.
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May 12, 2011
Bridesmaids is a high-profile test case. Directed by Paul Feig (a sitcom journeyman most lovingly known as the creator of Freaks and Geeks), it's... More>>
Sloppy Seconds The divine secrets of the Eskimo sisterhood in Something Borrowed.
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May 05, 2011
Something Borrowed is based on a 2005 work of chick literature by Emily Giffin. It was directed with extraordinary impersonality by Luke... More>>
Formal Disaster As if experiencing your own wasn't bad enough, Prom.
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April 28, 2011
"This one perfect moment." "That soul-crushing mistress." "Our forever night." These and other understated definitions are obsessively applied to... More>>
Lions Are People, Too Kings of the jungle get the March of the Penguins treatment in African Cats.
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April 21, 2011
Anthropomorphizing its animal stars to a borderline-dubious degree, Disneynature's nonfiction African Cats situates itself in Kenya's Masai Mara... More>>
Lincoln Memorial Redford helms another dull history lesson.
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April 14, 2011
Set in the months after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, The Conspirator follows the consequences of the fatal shot at Ford's Theater —... More>>
Stoned and Throned Your Highness, dirty jokes for the D&D crowd.
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April 07, 2011
Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic, streaked with carelessly... More>>
Teenage Mutant Ninja Virtuoso filmmaking, retro politics in a crisp thriller.
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April 07, 2011
The era of the teenage action heroine is fully upon us. As pop-cultural correctives go, it's a mixed blessing. In one corner, you've got the... More>>
In Search of Tossed Time Jake Gyllenhaal heroic even during weird plot wrinkles.
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March 31, 2011
Moon director Duncan Jones's sophomore feature, Source Code — a pseudo-cerebral, modestly budgeted sci-fi thriller with ambitions more... More>>
3 BR, Designer Touches, Great Spook Views The Saw duo takes us through a haunted house.
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March 31, 2011
There is a great deal of prowling motion in Insidious: a recurring sideways dolly outside an ominous house, a trench-coat-clad cacodemon pacing... More>>
Gothic Type A new adaptation of Jane Eyre stresses the pursuit of independence.
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March 24, 2011
If Jane Eyre is not the greatest of the Great Books with a permanent position on required-reading lists, it may be the most frequently filmed: At... More>>
Planet of the Aping Too much sci-fi, not enough SNL in Paul.
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March 17, 2011
Paul, it should be noted up front, is not the third installment in the so-called Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost,... More>>
Valley of the Dolls One pill makes you smarter
in a one-note movie.
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March 17, 2011
A gleeful celebration of nonstop doping, Limitless offers up a dim Better Living Through Chemistry fantasy that refuses to rain on its own... More>>
The Mummy's Curse Motion-capture maternal anxiety in outer space flounders.
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March 10, 2011
Who said animation should look real? Robert Zemeckis, for one, though as evidenced by Disney's recent closing of his ImageMovers Digital studio,... More>>
Porn-ing in America A Reagan-era bacchanalia succumbs to soggy nostalgia.
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March 03, 2011
Ink still wet on his MIT degree, Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) is back in hometown Los Angeles, waiting for his future to clarify itself while he... More>>
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