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The American Turning the thriller inward.
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September 02, 2010
Sometimes you feel bad for movie marketers, tasked with connecting any given film to an audience as large as possible. Take, for example, The... More>>
Blades of Gory When it's not LOL-funny, Robert Rodriguez's Machete is downright dull.
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September 02, 2010
In 1993, inspired by his second cousin Danny Trejo's work in Desperado, Robert Rodriguez wrote a screenplay around the character of Machete... More>>
Faith No More Trembling before God in The Last Exorcism.
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August 26, 2010
With a small, well-chosen cast, sly script, and slippery, ambivalent characters, The Last Exorcism gives a welcome twist to the... More>>
Happiness Is a State of Mind Back with an update but the same sensibility, Todd Solondz returns with Life During Wartime.
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August 26, 2010
Elegant opening credits, written as if calligraphy on a wedding invitation, yield to a couple in blunt close-up — unhappy, interracial,... More>>
Epic in Training Animal Kingdom suffers for its ambition.
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August 26, 2010
Happily sampling nasty beats and riffs from the Scorsese catalog, the new Aussie crime saga Animal Kingdom begins with a hushed but... More>>
Ghetto Fabulous Bow Wow strikes it rich in Lottery Ticket.
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August 19, 2010
Midway through Lottery Ticket, a teen-comedy-cum-wish-fulfillment fantasy, the movie's hero, Kevin Carson, goes on a spending spree. The... More>>
Life Is Beautiful Attractive female seeks attractive sperm donor in attractive comedy The Switch.
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August 19, 2010
The Switch is a loose adaptation of a Jeffrey Eugenides story called "Baster," published in The New Yorker in 1996 and deemed fit for inclusion... More>>
Regrets, I've Had a Few A hermit's life-affirming, pre-death funeral, in Get Low.
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August 12, 2010
''No Damn Trespassing, Beware of Mule!" warns the hand-carved sign posted near the high country cabin of Tennessee recluse Felix Bush (Robert... More>>
Precious Little Life Scott Pilgrim and Michael Cera get soul.
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August 12, 2010
Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is every bit as faithful to its source material (Bryan Lee O'Malley's six-volume series about a... More>>
Twilight of the Bods Sly and the family Stallone get nostalgic for their legacy of brutality in The Expendables.
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August 12, 2010
''If the money's right, we don't care where the job is." So explains the leader of hired-gun task force The Expendables, Barney Ross (Sylvester... More>>
Cop Out Will Ferrell and Adam McKay re-team, with decreasing returns.
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August 05, 2010
After obligatory helicopter views of New York's skyline open Adam McKay's The Other Guys, we're introduced to Danson and Highsmith (Dwayne... More>>
Unlikely Porn Star Luke Wilson brings hardcore to the masses in Middle Men.
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August 05, 2010
If the plot of Middle Men sounds familiar — Luke Wilson gets in bed with James Caan, who just wants to fuck him — that's because it's... More>>
Messed Up Mental disability as comedy in Dinner for Schmucks
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July 29, 2010
In Steve Carell's first few episodes of the American version of The Office, his character, Michael Scott, hewed closely to the template created... More>>
Red Bull Alain Resnais does his carrot-topped muse no favors in Wild Grass.
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July 29, 2010
>Alain Resnais's Wild Grass has plenty of fans — it copped an award at Cannes in 2009 — but I don't see what they see. The... More>>
No Happily Ever After Included Fairy tale meets real life for runaway kids in Kisses.
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July 29, 2010
Strictly speaking, the two scrappy Irish kids in Lance Daly's Kisses aren't homeless, but in every sense that matters, they have only each other... More>>
The First (Ambiguous) Action Heroine Angelina Jolie's contradictions buoy the otherwise rote Salt.
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July 22, 2010
Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie After Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the cinematic equivalent of the... More>>
The Producer Indie film and family in crisis in The Father of My Children.
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July 22, 2010
The Father of My Children, a drama about love, sorrow and the heartbreak of independent film financing, is sliced neatly in half by the sudden... More>>
Get Outta My Dreams Inception, an Important Picture, tries to get inside our heads.
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July 15, 2010
Inception is a chilling trip into the psyche...of writer-director Christopher Nolan, an Anglo-American action director who shattered the... More>>
The New Normal Lesbian family values in The Kids Are All Right.
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July 15, 2010
Serious comedy, powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo, Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right gives adolescent... More>>
Adaptive Behavior Killer's tormented self gets simplified for screen.
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July 15, 2010
Implicit in its title, the premise of The Killer Inside Me — directed by Michael Winterbottom from Jim Thompson's 1952 crime novel —... More>>
Silly Me The childish, funny, 3-D delights of Despicable Me.
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July 08, 2010
As the lights were dimming before a preview screening of Despicable Me, the six-year-old who lives in my house leaned over and said, "I hope... More>>
Momma's Boys Peter Pan complexes collide in Cyrus.
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July 08, 2010
In Cyrus, a freakishly engrossing black comedy about excessively mothered men and the women who enable them, the excellent John C. Reilly plays... More>>
Captured in Afghanistan American soldiers, vérité-style, in Restrepo.
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July 08, 2010
In the summer of 2007, two Western journalists dug in with a platoon of American soldiers on a 15-month deployment in the Korengal Valley, a... More>>
Knight in Verbal Armor Tom Cruise, please stop talking.
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June 24, 2010
You know and love Jason Bourne as an implacable killing machine. But what if he were a mouthy asshole instead? That's the provocative question... More>>
Emancipation Proclamation Tilda Swinton's got to be free in I Am Love.
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June 24, 2010
As unrepentantly grandiose and ludicrous as its title, Luca Guadagnino's visually ravishing third feature I Am Love suggests an epic that... More>>
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