REVIEW: Mesmerizing 'Teenage' Rebels Against Traditional Documentary Form
It's hard to reconcile, considering the degree to which adolescents now dominate popular culture, but the idea of the teenager is…
REVIEW: 'The Big Wedding' Is Not Fat, Greek, Original ' Or Funny
Let's face it: The Big Wedding was more fun when it was fat and Greek — or loud and French, in the case of this adaptation of…
REVIEW: Who Needs North Korea? 'Olympus Has Fallen' Hijacked By Lousy Bulgarian CGI
A North Korean terrorist may be responsible for taking the president hostage, but it's Bulgarian-made CGI that does the most…
REVIEW: Danny Boyle Plays Mind Games With Moviegoers In Beyond-Belief 'Trance'
"Everyone knows amnesia is bollocks," snarls one of the thugs in Trance. Hypnotism, on the other hand, is fair game in this…
REVIEW: Tina Fey's Class Clown Act Can't Save C-Level 'Admission'
Though smarter than your average dramedy, Paul Weitz's forced Admission faces some major identity issues. Tina Fey plays a…
REVIEW: Like John McClane, Bruce Willis Narrowly Survives Subpar 'A Good Day To Die Hard'
At the risk of sounding ungrateful for a fresh Die Hard sequel, Russia needs its own John McClane movie the way Uncle Sam needs a…
REVIEW: 'Beautiful Creatures' Contains Little Of The Original Novel But Plenty Of Rebel 'Tude
Southern goth-chic gets a swoony supernatural makeover in Beautiful Creatures, a teen franchise-starter that suggests what…
REVIEW: Melissa McCarthy Steals 'Identity Thief' ' But The Movie's Payoff Is Slight
With Identity Thief, Melissa McCarthy proves she's got what it takes to carry a feature, however meager the underlying material…
SUNDANCE REVIEW: James Franco's Infuriating 'Interior. Leather Bar.' Is An Empty Glory Hole
Proving that a movie shot over a day and a half can premiere at Sundance if it has James Franco's name attached, Interior…
SUNDANCE REVIEW: Back-up Singers Take Center Stage In Rousing, Intimate 'Twenty Feet From Stardom'
Pulling raw talent from the footnotes of rock 'n' roll history and splashing their names up on the marquee where they belong…
REVIEW: Rat-A-Tat-What? Over-The-Top 'Gangster Squad' Makes 'Dick Tracy' Look Like A Documentary
The cops play things as dirty as the crooks in Gangster Squad, an impressively pulpy underworld-plunger that embellishes on a…
REVIEW: Bloody Hilarious & Hilariously Bloody 'Django Unchained' Is Tarantino's First Real Love…
The "D" is silent, though the name of Django Unchained's eponymous gunslinger sounds like a retaliatory whip across the face of…
REVIEW: Bin Laden With Backstory: Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty' Easier To Respect Than Enjoy
Running a dense two hours thirty, before credits, Zero Dark Thirty reunites director Kathryn Bigelow with…
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