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He may be out of the closet as a superhero and cheered around the world as a peacekeeper, but in Iron Man 2, former weapons mogul Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) can still be a cocky SOB. The man with a battery where his heart ought to be is restless, driven, glib, grandiose — which is to say, the billionaire industrialist still exhibits all the self-absorbed, antiheroic qualities with which Downey first delighted us in the role two years ago.
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May 2nd, 2010 2:45 PM
MOVIE REVIEW: Furry Vengeance (2010)
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Furry Vengeance: The title’s cute, right? And concise, too, since this family-oriented comedy celebrates small animals in the wild (yay!) who join tiny paws to thwart the schemes of a greedy real estate developer (boo!) who’s attempting to tear up a nice green forest and turn it into a tacky, beige housing development (hiss!).
May 2nd, 2010 2:30 PM
MOVIE REVIEW: The Losers
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The Losers is a pulp action rouser based on a comic-book series, but it’s derivative of many other sources — basically, it’s The A-Team meets Rambo meets Mission: Impossible, with a mission that’s one part trickiness, four parts blowing stuff up.
May 2nd, 2010 2:00 PM
MOVIE REVIEW: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
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The new relaunch of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, though, gave me good reason to be pumped. It’s not every day that one of our rogues’ gallery of iconic psycho killers gets to be played by a creepy and fascinating actor — in this case, Jackie Earle Haley taking on the role of Freddy Krueger, that burnt-to-a-crisp scarecrow of a madman.
April 14th, 2010 10:45 PM
Movie Review: Date Night
by:Extacy
In their respective hit television series The Office and 30 Rock, Steve Carell and Tina Fey play neurotic characters who are amusingly single — his Michael Scott and her Liz Lemon are, in their distinctive ways, pathologically bad relationship material in a world built for couples. Yet the appeal of both gifted comics is rooted in emotional maturity.
April 2nd, 2010 9:45 AM
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Clash Of The Titans’: Myth Mash
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Sam Worthington takes on gods and monsters and unintentional humor.
March 31st, 2010 10:45 PM
Review: ‘Clash of the Titans’ Should Have Sent the 3-D to the Underworld
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Redo of campy 1981 cult fave sports a cuter guy in a shorty skirt, but the overly busy 3-D distracts instead of enhances the action.
March 31st, 2010 6:00 PM
MOVIE REVIEW: Miley Cyrus in The Last Song
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Miley Cyrus is a really interesting movie star in the making, with an intriguing echo-of-foghorn speaking voice, and a scuffed-up tomboyish physicality (in the Kristen Stewart mode) that sets her apart from daintier girls in her celebrity class.
March 30th, 2010 10:15 PM
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Last Song’ is Another Chorus of Sparks’ ‘Dear John’
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Miley Cyrus is shaky in the formulaic, melodramatic story.
March 29th, 2010 11:45 PM
Movie Review: The Runaways (A Must See)
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Early on, we see Kristen Stewart, as the black-shag-haired Joan Jett, in an L.A. boutique, where she has to coerce the saleswoman into selling her a man’s studded biker jacket. Stewart’s casually likable, no-frills performance starts with Jett’s tough-girl saunter — which is to say, the actress knows just how to walk like a skinny dude. At the same time, we meet Cherie (pronounced Sher-ee), who cuts her platinum hair into a David Bowie shag so that she can lip-synch to him at a high school talent contest.
March 28th, 2010 11:47 PM
Movie Review: Repo Men
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In the nip/tuck techno future, a repo man (Jude Law) hunts down the deadbeat owners of mechanical body organs, slicing the ”artific-orgs” right out of their torsos.
March 28th, 2010 11:00 PM
Movie Review: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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Memories of middle school can reduce strong men and women to shudders of horror as they remember their dorky, lumpy, shape-shifting earlier selves. Yet America’s brave junior high-schoolers continue to endure the experience to this day. Not that they have much choice.
March 28th, 2010 10:15 PM
Movie Review: The Bounty Hunter
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For a long time in romantic comedy (and in real life too), it seemed as if women wanted men who could be strong and sensitive at the same time — who could give as good as they got but, when it came down to it, knew how to turn on the courtly old-fashioned big-speech-in-the-rain charm. Well, say hello to the Gerard Butler era.
March 27th, 2010 4:15 PM
The 5 Best and Worst ‘SNL’ Movies of All Time
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Will the New ‘MacGruber’ Movie Go Into the Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame?
March 15th, 2010 11:45 PM
Movie Review: Matt Damon’s Green Zone
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EW Grade: C+ Matt Damon plays a hero who’s one part 24‘s Jack Bauer and two parts good soldier in Green Zone. Wearing standard combat gear accessorized with an Arab kaffiyeh knotted around his neck, Damon is U.S. Army chief warrant officer Roy Miller, who’s stationed in Baghdad at the start of the U.S.-led occupation [...]
March 13th, 2010 10:45 PM
MOVIE REVIEW 2: Remember Me
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“Remember Me” tells a sweet enough love story, and tries to invest it with profound meaning by linking it to a coincidence. It doesn’t work that way. People meet, maybe they fall in love, maybe they don’t, maybe they’re happy, maybe they’re sad. That’s life. If, let us say, a refrigerator falls out of a [...]
March 13th, 2010 7:45 PM
Movie Review: Remember Me
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Bottom Line: A strong romantic drama in which Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin really shine. “Remember Me” is a smart, engaging drama about young love flourishing amid sadness and loss. The story ends on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, which, depending on your point of view, further underscores the sense of loss implicit [...]
March 12th, 2010 8:34 PM
MUST SEE MOVIE: Remember Me
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As you all know, I am a huge Robert Pattinson fan and I support him in any film or project he partakes. Today, Robert Pattinson’s film Remember Me opens. I urge all fans of Robert Pattinson and romantic drama films to please go see the film. From various reviews, they say the film is very [...]
March 6th, 2010 10:00 PM
Movie Review 2: Alice in Wonderland
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EW Grade: C Release Date: Mar 05, 2010 Rated: PG Length: 109 Minutes Genres: Action/Adventure, Fantasy With: Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, first published in 1865, is the sort of fractured-reality fairy tale that’s designed to strike adults much differently than it does children. For anyone old enough to [...]
March 6th, 2010 9:45 PM
Movie Review: The Yellow Handkerchief
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EW Grade: B- Details Limited Release: Feb 26, 2010 Rated: PG-13 Length: 96 Minutes Genre: Drama With: William Hurt and Kristen Stewart William Hurt is sad and lonely as a middle-aged guy just out of prison and without an address, having alienated his wife (Maria Bello). Kristen Stewart is sad and lonely as a moody [...]
March 6th, 2010 9:16 PM
Movie Review: Brooklyn’s Finest
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EW Grade: C The irony of calling a movie about compromised gentlemen of the New York City Police Department Brooklyn’s Finest ain’t exactly what you’d call subtle. But then neither is this heated-to-boiling melodrama, a sustained eruption of bullets flying, hookers hooking, and cops copping to all sorts of crappy behavior for reasons we’re meant [...]
March 6th, 2010 6:45 PM
Movie Review: Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is Full of Wonders
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Tim Burton goes through the looking glass: This is what CGI was invented for, surely? Over the last decade, digital effects have developed so fast, the most outlandish visual trickery can be integrated seamlessly with live action. Actors — living, breathing human beings — can coexist with the kind of fantastical environment that once was [...]
February 28th, 2010 11:45 PM
Movie Review 2: New York Time’s Review of Cop Out
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Jimmy and Paul are a carefully mismatched pair of New York City detectives who have endured nine years of partnership, which should put the ordeal of anyone who buys a ticket to “Cop Out” in some perspective. You will spend less than two hours in their wisecracking, undisciplined company, and that should be more than [...]
February 28th, 2010 11:30 PM
The Crazies Review: Don’t Drink the Water
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Ogden Marsh, Iowa, is one of those remote towns even the flyovers don’t fly over. But for decades its citizens’ decency has matched the town’s anonymity. Dr. Judy Dutton (Radha Mitchell) takes care of the births and the ordinary illnesses; her husband David (Timothy Olyphant), the local Sheriff, keeps the peace with the aid of [...]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Back-Up Plan (2010)
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In The Back-up Plan, Jennifer Lopez plays Zoe, a New York pet-shop owner who can’t find the right guy but decides to go ahead with her backup plan and have a baby anyway, courtesy of an anonymous sperm donor.