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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Love is a one-way street in Blue Valentine.
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January 13, 2011
When the MPAA handed Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating this fall, cynics suggested that the so-called "kiss of death" was better... More>>
Superhero Slob Seth Rogen schlubs it up as The Green Hornet's masked man.
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January 13, 2011
Only inertia will bring people to Michel Gondry's 3-D spectacle, The Green Hornet. Opening amid persistent negative buzz in the mid-January dead... More>>
Kickass Movies of the Year Our Ten Favorites from 2010 – including Jackass 3D.
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December 23, 2010
Seen any good movies lately? If you live in Houston, that might be a trick question. Since the recent closings of both the downtown Angelika and... More>>
Lost at the Chateau Marmont From party girl to Oscar winner, Sofia Coppola's journey to Somewhere.
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December 23, 2010
Sofia Coppola had her 21st birthday party at the Chateau Marmont — a fact she had forgotten until Phil Pavel, the manager of the hotel,... More>>
Hole in the Heart Hedwig creator John Cameron Mitchell switches gears, channeling his own grief into his latest project.
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December 23, 2010
"I can hold the tape recorder," offers filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell. "I tend to speak quietly." Graciousness appears to be second nature to... More>>
Karina Longworth's Top Ten Movies of 2010
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December 23, 2010
Every four years, the American people act en masse to send a message to the nation's power brokers, and every four years, this vote is... More>>
J. Hoberman's Top Ten Movies of 2010
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December 23, 2010
Many of my favorite films of the year are still awaiting wider release, so although this top ten list wraps up my 2010, it can also serve as a... More>>
Another Year
2010 is old news. Here are ten to watch out for in 2011.
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December 23, 2010
Since we're a heartbeat away from being sick-to-death of this month's crop of Oscar-seeking masterpieces, we've decided to cast a quick glance... More>>
How the West Is Won The Coen brothers take their tongues out of their cheeks for True Grit.
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December 23, 2010
Boldly reanimating the comic Western that secured John Wayne his Oscar 41 years ago, the Coen brothers' True Grit is well-wrought, if overly... More>>
Talk of the Nation How therapy saved the monarchy in The King's Speech.
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December 23, 2010
A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza for the brothers Weinstein, The King's Speech is a well-wrought, enjoyably... More>>
The Gang's All Here But the Focker franchise has seen better days.
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December 23, 2010
Just in time for the whole family to file into the multiplex on a silent Christmas night when there's nowhere else to go: a return to the... More>>
Gay and Gayer Jim Carrey and crew go balls-out in the raunchy, liberating Phillip Morris.
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December 16, 2010
It's taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to finally reach theaters.... More>>
It's Coming from Inside the Computer Blissing out on the 3-D, CGI'd, totally incomprehensible head trip of Tron: Legacy.
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December 16, 2010
Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, he's also the devil in Disney's megamillion-dollar reboot, Tron: Legacy.... More>>
No, Really, How? Learning to say what you mean and mean what you say in How Do You Know.
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December 16, 2010
An odd duck of a romantic comedy from James L. Brooks, How Do You Know strays as far from a barrel of laughs as a writer-director formed by... More>>
Gay and Gayer Jim Carrey and crew go balls-out in the raunchy, liberating Phillip Morris.
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December 09, 2010
It's taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to finally reach theaters.... More>>
Dance Dance Revulsion Natalie Portman goes batshit in a tutu in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan.
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December 09, 2010
A near-irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of heterosexual camp —... More>>
Life on Narnia An ailing franchise gets another chance.
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December 09, 2010
A massive project, taken up lightly by Disney in the giddy post-Lord of the Rings atmosphere and dropped upon failing to return the requisite... More>>
Rich Man's Recession The Company Men takes pity on the emasculated executive.
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December 09, 2010
Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based manufacturing conglomerate, The... More>>
Rapunzel Takes a Haircut Disney's latest looks and feels great, so why is the studio selling Tangled short?
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November 25, 2010
"Great," sighs the wicked witch in Tangled, a CG-animated spin on the Rapunzel story, "now I'm the bad guy." Mother Gothel, the frizzy-haired,... More>>
Stripped Rehashing yesterday's musicals, Burlesque squanders its hottest asset: Xtina.
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November 25, 2010
"She doesn't sing that way because she's had it easy." This is how Tess (Cher), the long-suffering owner of the nightclub at the center of... More>>
The End Is Near In Harry Potter finale the kids are not alright
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November 18, 2010
A teenage witch stands trembling behind her unsuspecting mother and father, wand raised. Obliviate, she whispers, and her parents' eyes go... More>>
Rock, Hard Place James Franco puts his mind to it in 127 Hours.
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November 18, 2010
Other people besides James Franco appear in 127 Hours, but as they're unimportant, they will not be mentioned in this review. Danny Boyle's film... More>>
Next to Nothing Paul Haggis shows no improvement.
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November 18, 2010
"What if we choose to exist solely in a reality of our own making?" asks Pittsburgh community-college lit professor John Brennan (Russell Crowe)... More>>
Working Girl Rachel McAdams is married to her job and loving it in Morning Glory.
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November 11, 2010
In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in a flesh-colored, diaphanous cocktail dress, its halter top and tight bodice giving... More>>
America, Back on Track The little guy saves small-town USA (and its corporate overlords) in Unstoppable.
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November 11, 2010
Though based on actual 2001 events in Ohio that caused an unmanned freight train, laden with toxic waste, to go haywire, Unstoppable could just... More>>
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