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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>>
Getting Old Isn't for Sissies Sure, she's a piece of work. But there's got to be more to Joan Rivers.
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June 24, 2010
Opening with a close-up of the crow's feet around its subject's eyes and expanding to reveal her Botox-frozen upper lip, the documentary-portrait... More>>
Into the Woods Looking for truth in the harsh Winter's Bone.
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June 24, 2010
"Never ask for what ought to be offered," 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) tells her little brother in Winter's Bone, Debra Granik's... More>>
The Joan Rivers Show The comedienne as more than just another vulgar broad in a makeup mask (though that too).
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June 24, 2010
"Everyone thinks they know Joan Rivers. And they do. They know part of her persona and her performances, but they don't know Joan... More>>
Toys Are Us In its third installment, Pixar's juggernaut turns morose.
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June 17, 2010
Fifteen years after ushering in a new era of CGI animation, and 11 years after a colossally successful premillennial sequel, the Toy Story... More>>
Kung Fu Hustle Karate Kid remake too cynical to catch a fly with chopsticks.
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June 10, 2010
Like its predecessor, 2010's Harald Zwart-directed The Karate Kid begins with an uprooting. Young Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his mother (Taraji... More>>
Silence of the Lambs Up the mountain one last time with Sweetgrass. Anthropomorphized sheep need not apply.
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June 10, 2010
Though the breathtaking vistas of Big Sky Country in Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's unforgettable sheep-herding documentary come... More>>
Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Apatow Crude on the outside, sweet in the middle: Get Him to the Greek.
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June 03, 2010
There are myriad moments during Get Him to the Greek — the roller-coaster spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall — when it feels as if... More>>
Rich People Problems But compelling ones! Liberal guilt's got soul in Please Give.
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June 03, 2010
Nicole Holofcener's fourth feature, Please Give, is a notable rebound from the insufficiently examined self-absorption of her last, Friends with... More>>
Born Identity Mother and Child grapples with adoption (but only adoption).
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June 03, 2010
In his work as writer-director, Rodrigo García has admirably distinguished himself through his commitment to creating intelligent, complex... More>>
Bringing Up Baby Splice is one crazy test-tube mutant of a movie.
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June 03, 2010
Though Sundance-screened and sporting an upscale cast, writer-director Vincenzo Natali's Splice has a mad science quality. He has crossbred a... More>>
Paycheck Prince Jake Gyllenhaal goes to the gym, but cannot beef up The Sands of Time.
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May 27, 2010
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time's story hinges on a dagger that can rewind time, a narrative conceit that doubles as a taunt to those who... More>>
Aging Disgracefully Sex and the City 2 struggles against nature to stay forever young.
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May 27, 2010
Say what you will, Michael Patrick King knows how to stage a fabulous gay nuptial. Sex and the City 2 begins with flair and good humor at... More>>
SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies
Enjoy the great indoors!
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May 27, 2010
First off, forgive us for not having the budget to upgrade this summer movie preview to 3D. Rest assured, there are plenty of eye-popping... More>>
A Decade Makes a Comeback Paying homage to the '80s, from Hot Tub Time Machine to MacGruber.
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May 20, 2010
MacGruber (Will Forte), a highly decorated soldier of fortune known for "making life-saving inventions out of household materials," faked his... More>>
Ridley Scott Waters the Tree of Liberty Robin Hood rails against the no-good tax-and-spend Nottingham elite.
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May 13, 2010
Is it an accident that Ridley Scott's Robin Hood plays like a rousing love letter to the Tea Party movement? It's certainly something of a... More>>
Flagrant Foul Just Wright is just wrong.
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May 13, 2010
Another movie, not as awful or deluded as this one, might one day find better use for the easygoing vibe between Queen Latifah and Common,... More>>
Brown, Out Macho meets homo in the laudable but terrible La Mission.
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May 13, 2010
Watered-down Jungian analysis meets a GLAAD-approved weepie in Peter Bratt's second feature, starring brother Benjamin (who also produces) as a... More>>
Built to Last Iron Man 2 will lead to 3 and probably 4, but that doesn't mean it's good.
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May 06, 2010
As Iron Man 2 begins, Tony Stark — mechanical genius, Forbes 400 perennial, the pop-star CEO of Stark Industries — has dropped any... More>>
Tag, You're It A doc about street art, sort of. Brought to you by Banksy, kind of.
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May 06, 2010
A genuinely hip, thought-provoking work of art disguised as a doomed documentary resurrected, Exit Through the Gift Shop is not just the... More>>
Forbidden Iran Now you know: Tehran's underground music scene in No One Knows About Persian Cats.
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April 29, 2010
The great boundary-crosser of Iranian cinema, Bahman Ghobadi purposefully steps over the line with No One Knows About Persian Cats — a... More>>
The Losers The aptly named Losers is not a winning comic-book thriller.
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April 22, 2010
Writer Andy Diggle dedicated his snappy DC comic books "The Losers" to '80s screenwriting superstar Shane Black, creator of the Lethal Weapon... More>>
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