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Glory Days
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
As a mid-20s guy who loves a good Ingmar Bergman or Orson Welles, I have to admit that I kind of enjoyed 17 Again. It's not necessarily a good movie, but it has enough amusing moments to hold one's attention most of the time. Granted many of those moments came from Thomas Lennon (Reno 911), who played the quintessential nerdy, comic relief friend, but despite being cookie cutter the film is better than most in the same genre. More
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Dullness on the Edge of Town
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars.
For all the youthful hedonism and reckless behavior on display in Rawson Marshall Thurber’s Mysteries of Pittsburgh, his strangely stillborn adaptation of Michael Chabon’s first novel, there’s something sorely missing -- a sense of danger, perhaps, or a hint of voyeuristic intrigue. All the necessary ingredients are in place -- the sex, the drugs, even a hardened crime boss played with requisite menace by a leathery Nick Nolte, but they seem positively impotent in a coming-of-age tale wrought with painfully familiar melodrama. More
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The Edge of Mediocrity
Amidst war torn London, poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) feebly juggles two women. Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) is his first love who fortuitously re-enters his life and Caitlin Thomas (Sienna Miller) is Thomas’ bohemian wife who ends up forming an odd friendship with Vera. This strange troika teeters precipitously on The Edge of Love. More
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An Almost-There Indie
An indie film with Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel sounds perfect, right? Well, unfortunately these two indie darlings can’t push this film to the top of the heap. But, as a first time effort by Director Matt Aselton it shows promise and a tendency for odd, quirky yet utterly original stories. More
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A Perceptive Character Study
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the writing, directing, and producing duo whose first film, Half-Nelson, justifiably received critical acclaim, are back with their second film, Sugar, another character study, this time focusing on a Dominican baseball player’s experiences in the United States minor leagues and the personal and professional problems he encounters as he attempts to become a major leaguer. Infused with the attention to psychological detail and socio-cultural context that made [b[Half-Nelson worthwhile, Sugar thankfully avoids the “sophomore jinx”. More
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Superlative Historical Drama
A remarkably self-assured feature film debut by award-winning, multimedia artist Steve McQueen Hunger explores, often in devastating detail, the events leading up to and around the 1981 hunger strike conducted by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to both protest conditions at the notorious Maze Prison in Belfast, Ireland, and fight for the “political prisoner” status denied them by the British government. More
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A Bromance (with Cars)
Fast & Furious, is the fourth entry in the surprisingly durable car-centered franchise, and the first to reunite the co-stars from the first film, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, actors badly in need of a commercial hit. And with Justin Lin (Finishing the Game, Annapolis, Better Luck Tomorrow), the director of the previous film in the franchise, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, back as director, Diesel and Walker are all set for their comebacks (or so they hope). More
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A Fashionista’s Farewell
Who is Valentino Garavani? To those who know fashion, the answer is obvious: He is the legendary Italian designer behind the Valentino line of hand-stitched dresses favored by two generations of the celebrity elite, from Jackie Onassis to Jennifer Lopez. Yet, as Matt Tyrnauer’s absorbing new documentary suggests, Valentino, who will turn 77 in May, is hardly sated by his 45-year reign at the forefront of his industry. He is restless, perpetually dissatisfied and capable of finding even his greatest successes inadequate. More
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Moody Blues and Midsummer’s Romance
Those expecting another hormonally charged, cheerfully outlandish sex comedy from Superbad director Greg Mottola may be surprised to discover that Adventureland, despite a deliberately misleading ad campaign, is nothing of the sort. It is a far more grounded, even somber affair, populated by thoughtful, unaffected characters whose misadventures ring invariably true. It is also one of the year’s best films. More
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Long Live the Dead…
The Campbell family hasn’t exactly had an easy time of things lately. Their eldest son Matt (Kyle Gallner) is battling cancer and the family just took up residence in a house that has a bit of ‘history’ to it. To say there are a few skeletons in the closet barely scratches the surface in The Haunting in Connecticut. More
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