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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>>
The Raid Cops versus thugs in high-powered high-rise fight flick The Raid.
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March 29, 2012
Lean, fast-moving, and filled with game-changing fight sequences that have a brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) quality, Gareth Evans's... More>>
The Hunger Games The Hunger Games rages against our stupid culture, and becomes part of the problem.
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March 22, 2012
"If no one watches, then they don't have a game," a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne... More>>
Being Flynn Being Flynn can't stop telling us exactly what to feel.
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March 22, 2012
Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which explored... More>>
21 Jump Street Bro, how times have changed: 21 Jump Street now a buddy comedy.
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March 15, 2012
The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as high schoolers, debuted on Fox in 1987 — one year after the network... More>>
Jeff, Who Lives at Home A stoner goes after his date with destiny in Jeff, Who Lives at Home.
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March 15, 2012
It's obvious that Jason Segel has a face for comedy. He's got a lumpy, sad-sack mug with a dozen inflections to register disappointment,... More>>
Fathers & Sons in Suck City Being Flynn can't stop telling us exactly what to feel.
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March 15, 2012
Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which explored... More>>
Silent House Reality-horror gets a questionable upgrade in Silent House.
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March 08, 2012
The foundations of Silent House are laid atop La Casa Muda, a nil-budget 2010 Uruguayan horror film that enjoyed an afterlife in international... More>>
Friends with Kids An unconventional parenting setup in a highly standard rom-com.
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March 08, 2012
In the opening scene of Friends with Kids, a conspicuously placed copy of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion on the bedside table of Jason (Adam... More>>
Lost in America A couple goes searching for a lifestyle that fits in Wanderlust.
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February 23, 2012
"There's no one way to live our lives," hopes the displaced, adrift couple at the center of Wanderlust. Shopping between the prefab identity... More>>
This Means War As two pals fight over Reese Witherspoon, This Means War sticks to the script.
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February 16, 2012
Hostilities in This Means War are declared as two workmates compete for the affection of the same woman. The contested objective is Lauren (Reese... More>>
The Secret World of Arrietty Tiny hidden humans meet the neighbors in Arrietty.
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February 16, 2012
Synonymous with the humanistic, eco-minded, pastel-hued elegance of Japanese filmmaker and animation virtuoso Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away),... More>>
A Separation You are the judge in the high-stakes Iranian legal drama A Separation.
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February 16, 2012
A Separation — the fifth feature by Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi — is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you... More>>
The Vow Rachel McAdams gets the sense knocked out of her in The Vow.
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February 16, 2012
The Vow, a full-bodied lunge for the heartstrings, has a humdinger of a premise, forcing its characters to face a question that most of us ask... More>>
Safe House Ryan Reynolds's bod is the asset in men-on-the-run thriller Safe House.
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February 09, 2012
"He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan Reynolds... More>>
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