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 | A Cinematic Fumble Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars.
A shameless attempt to wring emotion from audiences who, by the two-hour mark, will be ready to call it a loss.More |  | One for the Twi-Hards Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars.
Hoping to capitalize on [b]Twilight’s[/b] unexpected box office success and satisfy a teen fanbase — known as Twi-hards — [b] The Twilight Saga: New Moon[/b] arrives in multiplexes everywhere only a year after its predecesesor.More |  | A Modest Art World Satire Rating 3.5 out of 5 stars.
For his third film, [b](Untitled)[/b], filmmaker Jonathan Parker takes on the New York art scene he knows well from first-hand experience.More |  | A Disappointing Failure Rating: 1 out of 5 stars.
If pink projectile vomiting, explosive snake diarrhea, and other miscellaneous bodily secretions are your idea of fun, then [b]Gentlemen Broncos[/b] is for you. If nothing in that list sounds even remotely funny to you, then you should give Jared Hess’ latest film a pass.More |  | Predictable, Obvious, Banal Rating: 2 out of 5 stars.
Everything about [b]Motherhood[/b], Katherine Dieckmann’s comedy about a day-in-the-life of a Manhattan-based, stay-at-home mom, is painfully predictable, painfully obvious, and painfully banal.More |  | A Compelling Character Study Rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
Less a traditional sports drama or a standard biopic than a character study, [b]The Damned United[/b] is never less than compelling thanks to Morgan’s sure-footed insight into Clough’s complex, contradictory personality and Michael Sheen’s chameleon-like performance.More |  | An Action-Packed, Clichéd Melodrama Packed with Tony Jaa’s signature fighting moves and a variety of fighting styles and weapons, [b]Ong Bak 2: The Beginning[/b] will leave Jaa’s fans mostly pleased.More |  | How Basketball Saved Five Lives Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
The first words that come to mind after watching [b]More Than a Game[/b], a borderline hagiographic documentary about NBA superstar and Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James, his longtime friends and fellow basketball players and their championship-winning high-school basketball team, are “slick", “sentimental", and “superficial". It’s also affecting, poignant, and, on occasion, insightful, and for basketball fans (and especially for LeBron James’ fans), worth the price of a DVD rental or catching it on ESPN.More |  | A Sequel That Improves on its Predecessor Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Producer Emmanuel Benbihy, who scored a modest arthouse success three years ago with [b]Paris, je t'aime[/b], an romance-centered anthology film that mixed 18 filmmakers with Paris’ 18 arrondissements (districts), is back with [b]New York, I Love You[/b], the second in a planned “Cities of Love” series (Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai are next). Unsurprisingly for an anthology film, the shorts range from the slight and superficial to the insightful and reflective.More |  | A Solid Period Piece Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
[b]An Education[/b], a coming-of-age drama directed by Lone Scherfig and adapted by Nick Hornby from Lynn Barber’s memoir, arrives in North American movie theaters ten months after it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past January. Minus a third-act stumble, the praise received on the festival circuit for [b]An Education[/b] -- Scherfig’s unobtrusive direction, Hornby’s deft screenplay and newcomer Carey Mulligan’s performance as Jenny -- is more than justified.More |
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