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Another Woody Allen Trifle
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars.
Midnight in Paris is a Woody Allen film through and through: comforting in its predictability, sporadically funny, occasionally insightful, and immediately forgettable. More
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The Wolf Pack is Back
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.
In Hangover 2, we have a virtually identical setup, but in a new setting. Specifically, the wolf pack is running loose in Bangkok. More
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On Stranger Tides
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars.
Johnny Depp is back as Jack Sparrow, the seemingly perpetually drunk, borderline amoral anti-hero in
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. More
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Ferrell Gets Serious
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars.
Will Ferrell delivers one of the finer performances of Ferrell’s acting career in the comedy-drama Everything Must Go. More
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Gordon-Levitt Gets Heavy
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
For Gordon-Levitt’s role as the title character in Hesher, he transforms himself into a long-haired, unkempt, rage-filled, monosyllabic metalhead. More
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Learning to Live
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Beginners is a beautiful work, not just for the emotions it deftly reveals, but also for its skillful use of still photography to evoke moods and memories. More
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A Mediocre Superhero
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars.
Superhero Summer, 2011 edition, officially kicks off with the first big-screen appearance of Marvel Comics’ Thor, the Norse god of thunder re-mythologized for the Marvel Universe as a super-powered, trans-dimensional, godlike alien. More
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Indie Art in the Wild West
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Water, and the search thereof, provides Meek’s Cutoff with a simple, but no less powerful, impetus for the central characters’ literal and metaphorical journey West. More
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Success in Excess
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
Guilty pleasures don’t come any guiltier or more pleasurable than Universal’s decade-old Fast and the Furious franchise, which returns with a lucrative fourth sequel, Fast Five. More
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Pattison's Circus Tearjerker
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
Water for Elephants marks the latest bid by Robert Pattinson to obtain middlebrow, mainstream success outside of the Twilight franchise. More
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