The film’s four writers work overtime to ensure that the majority of the gags are fresh and that the recycled ones are given enough of an extra spin to make audiences laugh all over again.
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Review: How to Train Your Dragon 2
How to Train Your Dragon 2 really pops in 3-D, yet the animation is so stunning that those hoping to save some cash won’t be cheated if they opt to check it out in one less dimension.
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Review: Chef
It’s a road trip story, a male-bonding movie, and a food comedy with no unpleasant aftertaste.
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Review: R.I.P.D.
Even with no advance screenings to warn the public, R.I.P.D. grossed a poor $12 million opening weekend, meaning this $130 million production is already earmarked as one of the summer’s biggest bombs.
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Review: Red 2
Like a favorite pair of slippers, it may not exactly be new, but it makes for a comfortable fit.
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Review: The Wolverine
Like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, this latest effort is a middling superhero saga that attempts to deepen our understanding of the character but instead ends up mainly treading narrative water.
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Review: The Conjuring
I suppose it’s possible to be shaken to the core by this movie – even if it’s ultimately not much more frightening than, say, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island – but ultimately, it’s just one more haunted-house yarn.
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Review: Maceo Parker at the Morris Center
It was a bittersweet goodbye at the final performance of the 2011 Music Festival, a later-than-usual 10:30 p.m. performance by funk legend Maceo Parker. There might have been more time […]
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Review: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Slow-vannah was transformed into Soul-vannah for a few hours when Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings landed at the Trustees Theater for the first sold-out show of the Savannah Music Festival. […]
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Review: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
There’s an expectation among some American moviegoers that foreign films, particularly those with subtitles, are boring, inaccessible works that sacrifice action in order to search for elusive higher meaning. The […]
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Review: Yeasayer at the Trustees
There was some skepticism in the air early on at the Trustees. The opening band, the Perry, Georgia-based chill-wave purveyor known as Washed Out, started so promptly that by 8:20, […]
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From a local perspective: ‘The Last Song’ reviewed
No one in The Last Song ever utters the word Tybee. Not even once. Oh, someone does mention that the story is unfolding in Georgia, and a little sign about […]