THE SOCIAL NETWORK ***1/2 Like the screwball comedies and film noir staples of yore, The Social Network exhibits an extraordinary gift for gab. Words fly like machine gun strafes, and […]
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The Town, Easy A
THE TOWN ***1/2 Is it safe to assume the Gigli wisecracks are permanently behind us? Granted, Ben Affleck’s professional dalliances with Jennifer Lopez — specifically, Gigli and Jersey Girl — […]
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Machete, The American
MACHETE *** It’s an intriguing grudge match: The taciturn star of Machete vs. the over-the-hill stars of The Expendables. Even with the odds against him, I’d put my money on […]
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Fall film preview
The summer frivolity at the multiplexes is now behind us, and it’s time to get serious. From now until the end of the year, moviegoers can count on nothing but […]
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That Evening Sun @ Muse Arts Warehouse
THAT EVENING SUN *** Like the Jeff Bridges vehicle Crazy Heart, That Evening Sun is one of those films that generates nearly all of its goodwill from a smashing central […]
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The Last Exorcism, Get Low
THE LAST EXORCISM *** The prospect of journeying to Hell and back seemed less daunting than sitting through another horror yarn made in the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch […]
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The Switch, Nanny McPhee Returns, The Expendables, Vampires Suck
THE SWITCH * A vile scenario doesn’t necessarily have to translate into a vile movie, providing there’s some objective or empathy on the part of the filmmakers. Gaspar Noe’s 2002 […]
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Eat Pray Love, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
EAT PRAY LOVE ***1/2 Just for the record, not all porn flicks are of the X-rated variety. More palatable for mass consumption are the films that qualify as “food porn,” […]
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The Other Guys
THE OTHER GUYS **1/2 It makes perfect sense for a film like, say, An Inconvenient Truth or Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room to end with some sort of […]
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Dinner for Schmucks
DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS **1/2 Whereas American filmmakers often prefer to produce comedies like Killers, French filmmakers frequently choose to produce killer comedies like The Dinner Game. An award-winning money machine […]
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Salt, The Kids Are All Right
SALT ** A neo-Cold War thriller would seem like just the ticket for cineastes who fondly recall Iron Curtain-courting capers on the order of The Spy Who Came In from […]
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Inception, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Predator
INCEPTION **** What would noted dream warrior Sigmund Freud make of Inception, Christopher Nolan’s first film since the eye-popping success of The Dark Knight? That’s impossible to say, of course, […]