Starring:
Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl, Cheryl Hines, Bonnie Somerville,
…
Review:
Katherine Heigl once complained that Judd Apatow’s Knocked
Up, in which she starred, was way too guy-centric and made the
women humorless shrews. Heigl owes Apatow an apology. The Ugly
Truth, Heigl’s new romcom, is the real sexist swill. There’s
not a genuine laugh in it, unless you think vibrating […]

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Starring:
Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Review:
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl. It?s been done to emo death.
That?s why the sublimely smart-sexy-joyful-sad (500) Days of
Summer hits you like a blast of pure romantic oxygen. It turns
the genre on its empty head and sees relationships for what they
are — a bruising business. Someone?s heart always gets […]

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Starring:
James Gandolfini, Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander
Review:
Political satire is a bitch to pull off. Kubrick’s Dr.
Strangelove set the bar high in 1964. But damned if In the
Loop doesn’t at least nip at its skirts. Best of all, this
ink-black comedy of war and how to stop worrying and love the spin
is devilishly clever. The gifted […]

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Starring:
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Jim Broadbent,
Helen…
Review:
Harry is better than ever, a triumph of visual wonder and
emotional storytelling. Only Muggles, who wouldn’t know Slytherin
from Gryffandor, will dismiss it as kid stuff for the multitudes
who drank the Kool Aid of J.K. Rowling’s seven books. The rap on
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the […]

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Starring:
Hayden Panettiere, Andrea Savage, Samm Levine, Alan Ruck, Lauren
…
Review:
For about five minutes — make that two minutes — I
thought this movie might have something. Dweeb valedictorian Dennis
Cooverman (Paul Rust, looking like a clone of the young Sean Penn
that didn’t quite take) urges graduating high-school students to
release the feelings inside.
(Watch Peter Travers’ video review […]

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Starring:
Sacha Baron Cohen
Review:
There is so much homo heat in Brüno that it could
turn Brad Pitt gay, maybe even Santa Claus. But I digress. After
bringing Borat to the screen in 2006 to mock the ignorant,
racist, misogynist, gun-loving, warmongering heart of America,
Sacha Baron Cohen returns with Brüno to mock the
shallow, consumerist, attention-craving, celeb-worshipping,
gay-fearing heart of […]

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Starring:
Johnny Depp, Channing Tatum, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup,
Marion…
Review: Infamous bank robber John Dillinger was at the movies on the steamy July night in 1934 when FBI agents gunned him down outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre. In Michael Mann’s jolting Public Enemies, sparked by a ball-of-fire Johnny Depp as Dillinger, America’s most wanted man sits in […]

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