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Reviews: A Good Day to Die Hard, Beautiful Creatures
A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD * It’s been exactly a quarter-century since Bruce Willis became a movie star with the action classic Die Hard, but while 2013 finds the […]
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Reviews: Movie 43, Warm Bodies
MOVIE 43 * One of the producers behind Movie 43 publicly stated that he hoped the film would become this generation’s Kentucky Fried Movie, a declaration that felt like a […]
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Hyde Park on Hudson
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON * The next time anyone blathers about “liberal Hollywood,” remind them that in 2012 alone, the film factory released one movie that paid tribute to the […]
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Hansel & Gretel, Witch Hunters
HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS *1/2 The natural inclination is to compare Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter — similar titles, similar punctuation, similar lunge for […]
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Reviewed: ‘Silver Linings Playbook’
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK *** ½ Writer-director David O. Russell, who makes decent movies when he’s not being a major-league jerk behind the camera (his temper tantrums with Lily Tomlin and […]
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Reviewed: ‘Hitchcock’
HITCHCOCK * The filmmakers behind Hitchcock claim that it’s based on Stephen Rebello’s book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, but a more accurate title for this cinematic claptrap […]
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Reviewed: ‘Les Miserables’
LES MISERABLES **1/2 Now available for purchase is the CD Les Miserables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, and it’s too bad there’s not a way to provide moviegoers with […]
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Reviewed: ‘Django Unchained’
DJANGO UNCHAINED *** Exciting. Funny. Gratuitous. Inflammatory. Insensitive. Stylish. Stupid. Sophisticated. Grab any adjective out of a hat and chances are it will apply to Django Unchained, writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s […]
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Reviewed: ‘Jack Reacher’
JACK REACHER *** With Tom Cruise whipping off his shirt and flexing his muscles with all the eager-to-please zestiness of Taylor Lautner doing likewise in the Twilight franchise, it’s clear […]
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Reviewed: ‘The Guilt Trip’
THE GUILT TRIP *1/2 Even acknowledging the hardship of finding suitable roles for women over 40 in Hollywood, it’s difficult to believe that The Guilt Trip was the best that […]
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Reviewed: ‘This is 40’
THIS IS 40 *1/2 In writer-director Judd Apatow’s 2007 hit Knocked Up, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann (aka Mrs. Judd Apatow) owned their roles as Pete and Debbie, the gently […]