Starring:
Steve Carell, Tina Fey
Review:
Here’s proof that Tina Fey and Steve Carell could squeeze
laughs out of a phone book. Josh Klausner’s script for
Date Night, in which they play Phil and Claire Foster, a
New Jersey couple trying to liven up their dull marriage with a
glam date in the Big Apple, rivals the Yellow Pages for […]

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Starring:
Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies
Review:
Set in a small fishing community in the Bronx with a large
population of Italian-Americans, City Island is a warmly
hilarious movie about family members and their secret hearts.
Writer-director Raymond De Felitta (Two Family House)
tells his story modestly, but his gift for laughs laced with charm
and bristling humanity is utterly irresistible. Andy […]

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Starring:
Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes
Review:
The elegant barbed wit of Noel Coward bubbling up in a time of
Wolverine grunts. I must be dreaming. But here it is, a 1920s-era
comedy of bad manners done by experts. Jessica Biel is funny and
touching as Larita, an American auto racer catching hell from the
snob Brit parents (Colin Firth and […]

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Starring:
Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander,
L…
Review:
“Based on a True Story.” That phrase strikes fear in the hearts
of most critics. For good reason. You might as well add the
subhead: “True, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of twisting
facts, adding laughs and jerking tears in the name of BIG […]

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Starring:
Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons
Review:
Here’s the thing about comedies: Even when the script is
freighted with formula, the right actors can keep it afloat, even
airborne. That’s where I Love You, Man really lucks out.
In a down market for giggles (Miss March? Please!), Paul
Rudd and Jason Segel are howlingly funny. […]

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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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