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Hall Pass The Farrellys fulfill their raunch and goo quotients.
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February 24, 2011
Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are two domesticated husbands whose long marriages
(to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate,... More>>
Cognitive Dissonance Unknown is yet another empty-headed vehicle for Liam Neeson.
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February 17, 2011
To age brutishly is Liam Neeson's apparent career goal — with Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team and now Unknown, the actor continues... More>>
Legion of Doom A neophyte Roman general flies like The Eagle.
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February 10, 2011
The Eagle is a thunderous boys' adventure of the old-school type — there's not a female speaking part in the entire movie. Directed by... More>>
Seasonal Disaffected Disorder Choosing between the smug couple or their loser friends in Another Year.
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February 03, 2011
Another Year, the tenth feature-length British soap written and directed by Mike Leigh, concerns a year in the life of Tom (Jim Broadbent) and... More>>
The Devil You Know Demons no scarier than nasty older sisters in The Rite.
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January 27, 2011
The Rite is the latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic possession a major plot-point. This... More>>
Life After Black Swan Natalie Portman follows up with — surprise — an awfully good romantic comedy.
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January 20, 2011
Ivan Reitman, master of the high-concept, big-budget Hollywood comedy (Ghostbusters, Dave), would seem an unlikely candidate to direct No Strings... More>>
Hotel California Celebrity living has its downside in Somewhere.
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January 20, 2011
Dissolute action-movie star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), first seen doing laps in his black Ferrari, has no destination in Somewhere, Sofia... More>>
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>>
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