Starring:
Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Keir O’Donnell, Bobby Cannavale,
Stephen…
Review:
Shoot me now! It’s bad enough that this laugh-free farce
featuring Kevin James’ bumbling Blart saving a mall from thieves on
skates (what a concept!) has shot this hackjob comedy to box office
nirvana (a 10-day total of $64.8 million). Now there are plans for
a sequel. I guess Blart […]

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Starring:
Francois Begaudeau
Review:
Richly deserving of the Oscar nomination it recently received as
Best Foreign-Language film, Laurent Cantet’s scrappy mesmerizer of
a movie about a life in learning sneaks up and floors you. The film
is based on an autobiographical novel by François
Bégaudeau, a French schoolteacher who grapples with
junior-high students in a racially mixed section of France. Though
Cantet […]

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Starring:
Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick, Jr.
Review:
This crap is supposed to be the chick flick antidote to Super
Bowl fever. Ha! The thudding sounds you hear at New In
Town are jokes landing like lead balloons and conking the life
out of the actors. Director Jonas Elmer shares the script’s anvil
touch. Renee Zellweger stars as Lucy Hill, a […]

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Starring:
Daniel Craig, Liev Schrieber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan
Co…
Review:
Daniel Craig, the best James Bond since Sean Connery, no matter
how much Quantum of Solace sucked his spirit, gets a true
story to dig into this time. And it’s a doozy. In
Defiance, Craig brings grit and gravity to the role of
Tuvia Bielski, the eldest of three […]

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