CONTAGION **1/2 An entertaining if unwieldy cross between a PSA and one of those all-star idiocies from the 1970s — those disaster flicks involving hijacked planes, hurtling meteors or towering […]
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The Debt, Our Idiot Brother, The Guard
THE DEBT *** Don’t be turned off by the worrisome facts that its release date has kept changing, it’s already made the global rounds since last September, and it’s being […]
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The Whistleblower, Conan the Barbarian, Spy Kids
THE WHISTLEBLOWER *** Here’s some pertinent information about DynCorp, culled from various sources: “DynCorp International is a United States-based private military company [which] has provided services for the U.S. military […]
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Fright Night, One Day, Sarah’s Key, Another Earth, Hobo with a Shotgun
FRIGHT NIGHT **1/2 If you weren’t around in 1985 to enjoy it, the original Fright Night is worth a Netflix rental, thanks to its fleet-footed approach to the vampire genre […]
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The Help, 30 Minutes or Less
THE HELP *** Every summer witnesses the release of a handful of counter-programming efforts, titles designed to satisfy audiences who don’t particularly care for superhero sagas or alien adventures or […]
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES **1/2 WETA-created and PETA-approved, Rise of the Planet of the Apes stands at the center of a campaign that boasts about how the […]
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Cowboys & Aliens; Crazy, Stupid, Love
COWBOYS & ALIENS ** Paul Dano, the twitchy oddball from Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood, plays the son of stalwart Harrison Ford in Cowboys & Aliens, and […]
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 *** Right out of the gate, let’s make it known that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 doesn’t […]
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Zookeeper, Horrible Bosses
ZOOKEEPER * Leave it to Zoolander to have the foresight to succinctly sum up Zookeeper. In that 2001 comedy, Owen Wilson’s Hansel blares, “Taste my pain, bitch!” – a declaration […]
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Larry Crowne
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON * Stating that Transformers: Dark of the Moon is better than 2009’s infamous Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a futile declaration best left for […]
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Cars 2, Bad Teacher
CARS 2 *** Think of Pixar as a person instead of a studio. Imagine it as Clint Eastwood. Remember that middle stretch in Eastwood’s career, when he would alternate more […]
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Green Lantern, Mr. Popper’s Penguins
GREEN LANTERN **1/2 Considering all the advance negative buzz that had been building with the steadiness and scariness of a Category 5 hurricane, Green Lantern, just one of the approximately […]