Starring:
Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle
Review:
Simultaneously full of itself and full of shit, Brooklyn’s
Finest is a cop movie so shallow, dumb, derivative and
infuriating that it feels like a parody of bad cop movies. From the
glaringly obnoxious opening scene of a parked car with its turn
signal blinking, blinking, blinking, to the spray of clichés
that […]

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Starring:
Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin
Review:
Adapted from a bestseller by Jodi Picoult that I hope to never
read, My Sister’s Keeper starts with an intriguing
premise. Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric conceive a child to keep her
leukemic older sister (Sofia Vassilieva) alive through transfusions
and transplants. But when Anna (Abigail Breslin), 11, hires a
lawyer (Alec Baldwin) […]

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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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