Starring:
Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
Review:
Guilty-pleasure movies should not be underestimated. I had a
scary-fun-house blast at Zombieland, in which studly Woody
Harrelson, nerdy Jesse Eisenberg, sexy Emma Stone and sunshiny
Abigail Breslin roam a near-dead world kicking zombie ass. (
Watch Peter Travers’ video review of Zombieland)
Director Ruben Fleischer mixes fright and slapstick with […]

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Starring:
Michael Stuhlbarg
Review:
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are getting personal. They
shot their new film in suburban Minnesota, where they grew up as
sons of Jewish academics. But if you’re expecting something warm
and fuzzy, circa 1967, you don’t know the Coens, and A Serious
Man is no country for you. This seriously funny movie,
artfully photographed by […]

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Review:
The Pirates of the Caribbean have nothing on the buccaneers of
Wall Street, and the banks and insurance companies that merrily
loot America with the help of our elected officials. You know this.
I know this. So how come Michael Moore has to make a movie about
it? Because we’re doing fuck-all to change things. The explosive
Capitalism: […]

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Review: In Taiji, Japan, fishermen lure dolphins, about 23,000 a year, into a hidden cove and brutally
harpoon them to sell their often-contaminated flesh as whale meat. Director Louie Psihoyos, aided
by Richard O’Barry, a former dolphin trainer (he worked on the TV series Flipper), joins with
other advocates (Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere included) to stop this […]

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Starring:
Hayden Panettiere, Andrea Savage, Samm Levine, Alan Ruck, Lauren
…
Review:
For about five minutes — make that two minutes — I
thought this movie might have something. Dweeb valedictorian Dennis
Cooverman (Paul Rust, looking like a clone of the young Sean Penn
that didn’t quite take) urges graduating high-school students to
release the feelings inside.
(Watch Peter Travers’ video review […]

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Starring:
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Review:
Here’s the Iraq War movie for those who don’t like Iraq War
movies. The Hurt Locker doesn’t preach. Director Kathryn
Bigelow, working from a strong script by embedded journalist Mark
Boal, gets right down to business
(watch Peter Travers’ video review of The Hurt
Locker). She takes us deep into an elite U.S.
bomb-disposal […]

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Starring:
Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds
Review:
Fact: Critics don?t get beaten down by god–awful movies
(they can be fun—hello, Showgirls!). The ones that
kill are the bland ones, the by–the–numbers movies that
studios grind out like toxic sausage. The latest cinematic
definition of insipid is The Proposal, a romantic comedy
so numbing it feels like Novocaine.
(Watch Peter Travers’ video review of […]

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Starring:
Denzel Washinton, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman,
Mich…
Review:
Internet buzz pre-slimed this New York subway-hijack thriller as
a douched-up reboot of the 1974 original. Since I revere the first
movie, especially the hangdog genius of Walter Matthau as transit
cop Zachary Garber, I sympathized. Then I saw The Taking of
Pelham 1 2 3, and the sucker grabbed […]

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Starring:
Sam Rockwell
Review:
This mesmerizing mind-bender sneaks up and hits you hard. Sam
Rockwell, reliably brilliant, is an astronaut finishing up a
three-year stint on the moon, mining energy from lunar rock.
(Watch Peter Travers’ video review of Moon) He wants
back on Earth with his wife and daughter. His only contact is
GERTY, a robot with the sweet-sinister voice […]

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Starring:
Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis
Review:
Is there a joke more familiar and fagged-out than the bachelor
party? Didn’t think so. I dragged my ass to The Hangover
like a man awaiting execution by cliché. Set in Las Vegas,
of all trite places, the script is by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore,
who perpetrated the crimes of Four […]

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