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Stephanie Zacharek's 10 Best Movies of 2010

There's probably no good reason to read any movie critic's Top 10 list, but lots of people -- including myself -- read them anyway. Let's not be falsely modest about it…

7 years ago

REVIEW: The Coen Brothers Pull Off an Almost-Great True Grit

People who love Charles Portis' 1967 novel True Grit -- and you will know them when you meet them, even if they do not wear an eyepatch and do not forego the modern…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Sofia Coppola Brings a Delicate Touch, and Sure-Handed Precision, to Somewhere

Some of those who have already written about Sofia Coppola's Somewhere have categorized it, in a kind of lazy shorthand, as a movie about the "emptiness of celebrity."…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Sylvain Chomet Conjures a Toon-Deaf Illusionist

The big drag about modern animation is the perception -- which seems to be growing more prevalent rather than less -- that it's somehow better when it's "good for you."…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Jack Abramoff is More Folk Hero Than Scoundrel in Casino Jack

Until he was convicted in 2008, Jack Abramoff was a wearer of many hats: Washington lobbyist supreme, bedfellow of right-wing creeps like Tom DeLay and Ralph Reed…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Tron: Legacy Is All Moneygrubbing Sequel, Very Little Legacy

There are good reasons for people to feel nostalgic about the 1982 live action-computer animation hybrid Tron. If you were a little kid when it came out, the spectacle…

7 years ago

REVIEW: John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole Is Sensitive But Not Bloodless

Perhaps the only thing harder than making a movie about young parents riven by grief after losing a child is sitting through one. And for that reason alone, Rabbit Hole…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Espionage Caper The Tourist Offers Mystery and Glamour, Plus Depp and Jolie

The Tourist is one of those movies that will leave some viewers scratching their heads, wondering why there isn't more action, more snazzy editing, more obvious crackle…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Wahlberg, Not Bale, Is the One to Watch in The Fighter

David O. Russell's The Fighter is a movie with a chip on its shoulder. Whenever it should bounce backward, it lunges forward; it jabs instead of feints, and stomps down…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey Are Prisoners of Love in I Love You Phillip Morris

There's plenty of sweetness at the core of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's bold, bleak little comedy I Love You Phillip Morris, in which Jim Carrey plays a gay con man…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Black Swan Takes Its Own Hifalutin' Hokum Way Too Seriously

Darren Aronofsky's ballerina-crackup drama Black Swan opens with a dream sequence in which a wispy-boned young woman twirls and flutters to the strains of Tchaikovsky's…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Paul Giamatti Anchors a Sprawling Barney's Version

Though it's wrong to think that curmudgeons are more complex than shiny, happy people are, it's probably safe to assume they make more interesting movie characters -- as…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Colin Firth Leaves Us Speechless in The King's Speech

Now that audiences will finally have a chance to see The King's Speech, they can assess for themselves whether they can "relate" to a movie -- based on a true story -…

7 years ago

REVIEW: A Little Story Hardly Gets in the Way of Burlesque's Big, Dumb Dazzle

With its trailer alone, Burlesque has already gotten tons of mileage out of its obvious camp value: You don't put Cher in a movie these days -- in a glitter mini-tuxedo…

7 years ago

Gift Guide: Wrinkled Ex-Junkie Rocker Writes One of the Best Memoirs Ever

From Movieline's 2010 Holiday Gift Guide:It's an understatement to call Keith Richards' Life one of the most charming memoirs of the year. This could be one of the most…

7 years ago

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