Starring:
Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Samantha Morton
Review:
If anyone asks you where the best and brightest new directors
are coming from, point to Oren Moverman, whose vividly touching and
vital debut feature signals the arrival of a filmmaker — he
wrote the script with Alessandro Camon — who can bare the
soul of a character with precision and healing […]

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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:
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:
Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas, Christine Quynh Nguyen,
Amand…
Review:
It is what it says it is, a Jonas Brothers concert film in 3D.
That earns the movie one star just for truth in advertising. I
doled out a second star because director Bruce Hendricks had the
taste to steal from A Hard Day’s Night in the off-stage
scenes […]

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Starring:
Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins,
…
Review:
Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there,
Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell
and John C. Reilly. They riffed on the baby Jesus in Talladega
Nights. Now they’re goofing on grown men who stay babies. Are
you ready to see Ferrell rub his hairy […]

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