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Rock of Ages Rock of Ages posits Tom Cruise as a hair-metal god and hair metal as something un-awful.
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June 14, 2012
Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great... More>>
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding Nothing's so funny in Peace, Love & Misunderstanding.
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June 14, 2012
Three generations of fine actresses are squandered in Bruce Beresford's Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, an incompetently structured film that... More>>
Paramount Celebrates the 1970s On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s
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June 07, 2012
It's a warm spring evening on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, and the crowd jostling for hors d'oeuvres in the lobby of the Paramount... More>>
Safety Not Guaranteed|Lola Versus In Safety Not Guaranteed and Lola Versus, love doesn't mean an insult to the audience's intelligence.
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June 07, 2012
With her high cheekbones, feline brown eyes, and heart-shaped mouth, actress Aubrey Plaza is bombshell hot. But in an unusual twist for a... More>>
Oslo, August 31st An addict revisits the people he has hurt and his own demons.
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June 07, 2012
In just two feature films, writer/director Joachim Trier has proven to be unparalleled in exposing the foibles and delusions of all the sad young... More>>
Prometheus It boasts impressive horror, but its ideas? Not so much.
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June 07, 2012
Arriving in theaters on the back of a portentous ad campaign, Ridley Scott's Prometheus assumes the air of something more than a summer movie, a... More>>
Snow White and the Huntsman The latest Snow White is a tale overtold.
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May 31, 2012
If ever there were a perfect example of pure, fresh, classical simplicity unnecessarily trodden under with complications, it is Snow White and... More>>
Men in Black 3
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May 24, 2012
Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies upon their... More>>
2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview
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May 24, 2012
In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know that filmmakers still create —... More>>
Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator More culture-clash yuks than comedy revolution.
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May 17, 2012
In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of fictional... More>>
What to Expect When You're Expecting The narrow world view of the parent trap.
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May 17, 2012
Even though it doesn't have a story, characters, or setting, Heidi Murkoff's mega-bestselling, 28-year-old pregnancy manual, What to Expect When... More>>
Battleship Because every generation needs an Armageddon.
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May 17, 2012
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless that it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg's Battleship, which I... More>>
Morgan Spurlock's Mansome A trivial investigation of gender.
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May 17, 2012
"I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don't really know it." So says "biological anthropologist" Helen Fisher, speaking in... More>>
Dark Shadows Johnny Depp plays a vampire family-man
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May 10, 2012
A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts:... More>>
Marvel's The Avengers Superheroes bump superegos in Joss Whedon's all-star film.
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May 03, 2012
At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful, potentially... More>>
Bernie Murder in a Small Town
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April 26, 2012
Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the... More>>
The Five-Year Engagement A couple struggles with weather, relationship in The Five-Year Engagement.
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April 26, 2012
There is exactly one unexpected moment in the otherwise drearily predictable The Five-Year Engagement that, though little more than a throwaway... More>>
The Lucky One The chemistry fizzles in Notebook-lite The Lucky One.
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April 19, 2012
It's Nicholas Sparks's world; we just live in it. Sparks, in case you haven't scanned the paperback racks lately, is the former pharmaceutical... More>>
Damsels in Distress Whit Stillman returns with the toe-tapping college-girl fantasy Damsels in Distress.
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April 19, 2012
Back with his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. It's true both in respect to the singularity of his... More>>
The Deep Blue Sea Lovers try to stay above water in The Deep Blue Sea.
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April 19, 2012
The Deep Blue Sea, the first fiction feature in a dozen years from the visionary British director Terence Davies, is a film about love that in no... More>>
The Cabin in the Woods Built to impress, Cabin in the Woods can't see the forest for the trees.
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April 12, 2012
At the end of The Cabin in the Woods, the world is destroyed by an apocalyptic hand of fate — an actual hand, mind you — yet that is... More>>
Titanic 3D The shelf life of Clinton-era nostalgia is tested.
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April 05, 2012
A historical romance with a then-unheard-of price tag, James Cameron's 1997 Titanic was the nearest thing to a Gone with the Wind-style cinematic... More>>
American Reunion The shelf life of Clinton-era nostalgia is tested.
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April 05, 2012
Another defining coming-of-age love story of the Clinton era, 1999's American Pie, has expanded into a saga far more epic — and rather more... More>>
Footnote Father and son Talmudic scholars grapple with each other and the truth in Footnote.
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March 29, 2012
In the first scene of Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a fortysomething Talmudic... More>>
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