Starring:
Review:
This shameless tearjerker is Hollywood’s alternative assault on
Super Bowl weekend. Translation: While guys grunt and stuff their
faces in front of large-screen TVs, women will line up to luxuriate
in a bubblebath made from essence of Nicholas Sparks. You know who
Sparks is, the guy who writes bestselling weepies that become
appalling movies, such as The Notebook, […]

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Starring:
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph
Gordon-Le…
Review:
I don’t know what to say about the acting, writing and directing
in G.I. Joe because I couldn’t find any. There were scads
of pretty people posing awkwardly in military chic and tossing out
lame one-liners. Take this exchange between Army pals Duke
(Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans):
Ripcord: “I’ve been thinking.”
Duke: “I […]

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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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