Starring:
John Cusack, Danny Glover
Review:
Beware 2012, which works the dubious miracle of almost
matching Transformers 2 for sheer, cynical, mind-numbing,
time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity. We probably
are nearing the end of the movie world when it’s easy to predict
that the biggest turd in the bowl will rise to the top of the box
office. Equally depressing is the […]

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Starring:
Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose,
Jame…
Review:
Forget every sugary kid-stuff cliché Hollywood shoves at
you. The defiantly untamed Where the Wild Things Are is a
raw and exuberant mind-meld between Maurice Sendak, 81, the
Caldecott Medal winner who wrote and illustrated the classic 1963
book, and Spike Jonze, 39, the Oscar-nominated director (Being
John Malkovich, Adaptation) who […]

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Starring:
Tom Hardy
Review:
Don’t go in expecting a biopic on the Death Wish star,
though I’d pay to see that. This Charles Bronson, born Michael
Petersen, is a British artist and career criminal whose emulation
of the legendary Hollywood hardass led to the name change and has
kept him behind bars for 35 years and counting, though he’s never
been […]

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Starring:
Sasha Grey, Glenn Kenny
Review:
Looking for the dirty thrill of ogling a real porn star, Sasha
Grey, as she plays a high-priced Manhattan hooker doing a suck-fuck
Kama Sutra? Then, dear God, steer clear of The Girlfriend
Experience. Grey, 21, is there, all right, but director Steven
Soderbergh, 46, has no interest in servicing the panting john in
us. […]

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Starring:
Sasha Grey, Glenn Kenny
Review:
Looking for the dirty thrill of ogling a real porn star, Sasha
Grey, as she plays a high-priced Manhattan hooker doing a suck-fuck
Kama Sutra? Then, dear God, steer clear of The Girlfriend
Experience. Grey, 21, is there, all right, but director Steven
Soderbergh, 46, has no interest in servicing the panting john in
us. […]

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Starring:
Catherine Deneuve
Review:
Holiday films in the hands of Hollywood make me puke. Mom is
usually expiring from something terminal while the family dresses
the Christmas tree with brave smiles. This French knockout,
tough-minded and all the more affecting for it, turned my head
around. It hits hard — even the laughs are killers. I should
say that Mom (Catherine […]

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Starring:
Catherine Deneuve
Review:
Holiday films in the hands of Hollywood make me puke. Mom is
usually expiring from something terminal while the family dresses
the Christmas tree with brave smiles. This French knockout,
tough-minded and all the more affecting for it, turned my head
around. It hits hard — even the laughs are killers. I should
say that Mom (Catherine […]

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