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REVIEW: CGI and 3-D Not Enough to Jazz Up Yogi Bear

The larger portion of what brain power was allotted to the making of Yogi Bear went into its CGI and 3-D effects. Like, 99.89 percent. Which is to say it's a…

7 years ago

REVIEW: How Do You Know Has Moments of Genius -- But Too Many Cell Phones

A hanging statement rather than a question, the unpunctuated title of James L. Brooks's How Do You Know is an apt reflection of the film's amble toward a theory, in lieu…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Helen Mirren Helps Anchor a Rocky Tempest

Helen Mirren controls the weather in The Tempest, Julie Taymor's gusty, peripatetic screen version of Shakespeare's thunderous play. As Prospera, a female iteration of…

7 years ago

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Announcement Trailer: Meet the Wise Grandfather-bot

I'm happy to report that the new "announcement trailer" for Transformers: Dark of the Moon is almost entirely comprehensible. None of the effects shots move faster than…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Halle Berry Has a Personality Crisis in Frankie and Alice

Based on events that occurred in the 1970s and stuck in a "women in trouble" time machine set to 1958, Frankie and Alice builds a hothouse frame around the story of a…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Sleek, Dazzling Effects Buoy Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Whether the film subsumed the parochial lesson or the parochial lesson ate into the film is hard to say, but either way The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Garden of Eden Isn't Just Lesser Hemingway; It's the Worst of Him

Though based on the Hemingway novel published 25 years after his death, Hemingway's Garden of Eden feels more like the result of an ungodly alliance between Harlequin…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Udon Western The Warrior's Way Mingles Genres to Great Effect

A pain in the ass for someone with a job to do, films that open without screening for critics usually draw one of two responses: 1. Yes, that was probably a wise…

7 years ago

REVIEW: True Love (and Good Filmmaking) Goes Awry in All Good Things

All Good Things, Andrew Jarecki's feature follow-up to his dark family scrapbook Capturing the Friedmans, has got a whopper story, two magnetic leads, and a killer case…

7 years ago

REVIEW: For Better and Worse, Night Catches Us Lives a Little Too Much in the Past

Set in Philadelphia's summer of 1976, Night Catches Us opens with the sound of Jimmy Carter's voice wending through an urban neighborhood, planting the usual, soft…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Terrifying, Weird Nutcracker in 3-D Features the Best Effects iMovie Can Buy

Almost two centuries of holiday-friendly goodwill go up in a sun-blotting, smokestack cloud in The Nutcracker in 3-D, the most confounded in the long and miscegenetic…

7 years ago

Gift Guide: Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture by James Franco...

From Movieline's 2010 Gift GuideThis fall The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott's brilliant, propulsive mixture of memoir, manifesto and true crime was released in…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's Nipples Take Center Stage in Rambunctious Faster

Bullet-headed counterprogramming to this week's slate of soft-palate fare, Faster was built for speed, and for an action-savvy audience who can appreciate a throwaway…

7 years ago

Gift Guide: Remember Rita Hayworth (With a Few Famous Fans)

One for the pre-order pile, this collection of five Rita Hayworth films -- three of them new to DVD -- will not be released until Dec. 21. Those into suspense as well as…

7 years ago

Gift Guide: Judd Apatow Found This Funny

An anthology whose proceeds benefit 826 National, the tutoring, writing, and publishing organization founded and run by Dave Eggers, I Found This Funny is a compilation…

7 years ago

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