Starring:
Tim Allen
Review:
It might seem unjust to tar Tim Allen’s mirthless farce about an
ex-con (Allen) looking for a second chance as the worst movie of
the worst-movie month. With Leap Year, The Spy Next Door, Tooth
Fairy and When in Rome in the mix, the competition is
stiff. But Allen screws up his directing debut with a […]

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Starring:
Patton Oswalt, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz
Review:
Comedian Patton Oswalt triumphantly nails every comic and
dramatic nuance as Paul Aufiero, a New York Giants obsessive who
has long ago moved from fan to fanatic. At 36, Paul still lives
with Mom, works a dead-end job at a parking garage, and stays up
nights prepping football rants to deliver […]

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Starring:
Jennifer Aniston
Review:
It takes half an hour — forever in movie time — for
this relationship comedy to get going. But when it does, Jennifer
Aniston, as a corporate type who buys ghastly motel art, and Steve
Zahn, as the night manager at his parents’ Arizona motor inn, do
quiet wonders. Smarting from her split from a yogurt […]

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Starring:
Algenis Perez Soto, Richard Bull, Michael Gaston, Ellary
Porterfi…
Review:
Step up for this ground-breaking film about race, class, money,
sex, isolation, the immigrant experience, lost ideals and —
oh, yeah — baseball. On the surface, Sugar sounds
pretty rah-rah. Miguel Santos (Algenis Perez Soto), nicknamed
Sugar, is a 19-year-old poverty-row Dominican who rides his wicked
curveball to a shot at […]

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Starring:
Chazz Palminteri, Robert Davi, Peter Bogdanovich, Miriam
Margolye…
Review:
Here’s the little movie that could, a potent directing debut for
actor Robert Davi, an immortal Bond villain in License to
Kill. Davi plays Danny DePasquale, a star in his 20s when he
and his chubby-chaser pal George Zucco (Chazz Palminteri, in top
form) lead a doo-wop group called the Dukes. […]

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