Starring:
Idris Elba, Ali Larter, Beyonce Knowles, Bruce McGill, Jerry
O’Co…
Review:
Memo to Beyoncé Knowles: You were so good as Etta James
in Cadillac Records, so why’d you go spoil everything with
a rank cheeseball thriller that buries you in clichés and
won’t even help you dig yourself out? I’d call this stenchcloud
“Fatal Attraction meets The Temp,” but that […]

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Starring:
Mike Tyson
Review:
You won’t know what hit you after watching Tyson. This
power punch to the gut is one of the best movies of any kind this
year. But Tyson is going out as a documentary, a label that doesn’t
cut it for describing the overflow of ferocity and feeling on
display. Being a former heavyweight boxing champion […]

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Starring:
Amber Heard, Mickey Rourke, Billy Bob Thornton
Review:
Do some blow. Curse humanity. Convert to nilhilism. Reread
American Psycho. But don’t for the love of God and cinema
see The Informers. One of the worst movies of this or any
year, The Informers is a complete misreading of the
collection of linked short stories by Bret Easton Ellis, which […]

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Starring:
Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander,
L…
Review:
“Based on a True Story.” That phrase strikes fear in the hearts
of most critics. For good reason. You might as well add the
subhead: “True, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of twisting
facts, adding laughs and jerking tears in the name of BIG […]

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Starring:
Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange
Review:
In 1976, the Maysles released a shocking doc about Edith Beale
and her daughter, Little Edie. Relatives of Jackie O, these
aristocrats lived in poverty in a vermin-infested mansion in East
Hampton, New York. On April 18th, HBO debuts its electrifying take
on that story. The script hits a few bumps, but Jessica Lange […]

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Starring:
Michael Caine, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff`
Review:
It’s fitting that Michael Caine — Sir Michael since the
queen wisely knighted him in 2000 — is cast here as a
magician. Caine’s acting wizardry should be taught at Hogwarts.
Alfie, Sleuth, The Man Who Would Be
King, Dressed to Kill, Educating Rita,
Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules,
The Quiet […]

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Starring:
Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Michelle Trachtenberg,
Mat…
Review:
Since Zac Efron has the chops to make it in movies (see
Hairspray and the upcoming Me and Orson Welles),
it’s a damn shame that 17 Again is such a lame-ass rip-off of Tom
Hanks’ Big. Efron plays Mike, once a high school
basketball hotshot till his girlfriend, Scarlet, says […]

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Starring:
Yuka Takara, Diedre Goodwin, Alisan Porter
Review:
Tracing A Chorus Line from its creation in 1974 by
Michael Bennett and his dancers to its 2006 Broadway revival,
Every Little Step is a thrilling combination of
documentary and musical dazzler. Directors James D. Stern and Adam
Del Deo find the show’s core in the lyric “God, I’m a dancer/A
dancer dances!” […]

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Starring:
Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe, Robin Wright Penn,
Ja…
Review:
You try slicing and dicing a six-hour corker of a 2003 British
miniseries into a two-hour suspense drama set in Washington, D.C.
It ain’t easy. Maybe that’s why Brad Pitt dropped out, and his
Fight Club alter ego, Edward Norton, followed. Russell
Crowe stepped in for Pitt as Cal […]

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Starring:
Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, Heather
L…
Review:
Spoiler: Smiley Miley and Hannah Montana are the same person and
this movie says so! Eight-year-old girls of all sexes and ages are
now allowed to cry their eyes out. All others who find themselves
at the excruciating endurance test that is Hannah Montana: The
Movie have only themselves […]

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