Starring:
Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci,
Saoir…
Review:
Delicate business is being transacted as Peter Jackson, lord of
the Rings fantasy, attunes himself to a family tragedy.
The Lovely Bones, adapted from Alice Sebold’s 2002
bestseller, concerns the rape and murder of Susie Salmon (Saoirse
Ronan), a 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl. Her family — dad
(Mark Wahlberg), mom (Rachel Weisz), […]

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Starring:
Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams
Review:
I’d watch the vibrant Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in anything,
but The Time Traveler’s Wife is pushing it. Based on the
chick-lit bestseller by Audrey Niffenegger, the movie is Kryptonite
for guys, pulling out every tearjerking stop to make us believe in
the undying passion between Clare (McAdams), an artist, and Henry
(Bana), the […]

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Starring:
Chris Messina, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Jane
L…
Review:
The ideal recipe has a special ingredient that can lift a dish
from meh to memorable. Meryl Streep — at her
brilliant, beguiling best — is the spice that does the trick
for the yummy Julie & Julia. Written and directed with
sharp wit and unforced wonder by […]

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Starring:
Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin
Review:
Adapted from a bestseller by Jodi Picoult that I hope to never
read, My Sister’s Keeper starts with an intriguing
premise. Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric conceive a child to keep her
leukemic older sister (Sofia Vassilieva) alive through transfusions
and transplants. But when Anna (Abigail Breslin), 11, hires a
lawyer (Alec Baldwin) […]

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Starring:
Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson, Almudena Alcazar, Ana Ayora,
Haley…
Review:
From John Grogan’s bestseller comes a film about an untrainable
Lab, named after Bob Marley, who teaches Grogan (Owen Wilson) and
his wife (Jennifer Aniston) what matters in life. Watching the
stars try to out-cutesy the mutt is one for the puke bucket.

Rating: 1 Stars

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Starring:
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli,
…
Review:
Bummer. The vampires have no fangs. The humans are humdrum. The
special effects and makeup define cheeseball. And the movie crowds
in so many characters from Stephenie Meyer?s book that Catherine
Hardwicke (Thirteen) is less a director than a traffic
cop. But there?s a reason that Twilight has already become
the […]

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