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Love and Other Drugs is a sort-of romantic comedy about erectile-dysfunction drugs and Parkinson's Disease. Because Lord knows you can't make a romantic comedy that's…
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Movie-star style is an enduring source of fascination, though today it seems to find its greatest expression in mostly run-of-the-mill (if jaw-droppingly expensive)…
Gift Guide: Deadwood and the Most Versatile Swear Word Ever
"There ain't much to country living," sang Warren Zevon. "Sweat, piss, jizz and blood." Those four fluids are present in prodigious quantities throughout the three…
Gift Guide: Find Old Faves and New Treasures in The Elia Kazan Collection
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J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter saga began as a series of children's books and evolved into young-adult ones: The series grew up right in step with that first group of…
REVIEW: Russell Crowe Tries to Roughen the Edges of The Next Three Days
Blood on a trench coat, a wholesome-seeming wife and mom behind bars, a spouse who's devoted almost to the point of obsession: Paul Haggis' marital thriller The Next…
REVIEW: Skyline Gives Brain-Eating Aliens a Bad Name
If the trailers for Skyline made you believe this picture might be a reasonably entertaining space-invasion thriller, with at least semi-dazzling visual effects, actors…
REVIEW: Tony Scott Polishes Up a Gleaming, Unstoppable Runaway Train
The thrill of Tony Scott's Unstoppable, in which a runaway freight train hurtles through rural -- and toward not-so-rural -- Pennsylvania, is that its setup asks us to…
REVIEW: Rachel McAdams Keeps Morning Glory Alive and Awake
The advertising campaign for Roger Michell's Morning Glory makes it look like every dismal, overly calculated Nancy Meyers comedy you never wanted to see: A perky young…
REVIEW: Fine Performances from Downey, Galifianakis Can't Bring Due Date to Term
Todd Phillips' Due Date is a massive wedgie of a comedy, which is to say it's a comedy of extreme discomfort -- it's so unnerving, in fact, it sometimes seems more like…
REVIEW: James Franco Bids a Farewell to Arm in Danny Boyle's Strangely Cheerful 127 Hours
Danny Boyle's 127 Hours is a jaunty little exploitation picture with prestige movie cred. By now you probably already know that in 127 Hours, James Franco's character -…
REVIEW: Aggressively Amusing Megamind Too Mega for Its Own Good
There may be no grand sociological explanation for it, but 2010 has brought us two animated films whose heroes are actually so-bad-they're-good villains. The first was…
REVIEW: Ambitious If Faltering Four Lions Gets Laughs Out of Junior Jihadists
Terrorists aren't very funny when they're flying planes into your buildings. But aspiring terrorists who accidentally blow up unfortunate sheep, or who choke on the SIM…
REVIEW: Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Features White Swedish Guys Talking, A Lot
It's often a sad day when a movie series -- the Lord of the Rings trilogy, or the nearly completed Harry Potter saga -- comes to an end. And I know there are some who…
REVIEW: Unhappy Suburbanites Meet Teen Runaway in Welcome to the Rileys
If we need another movie about unhappy middle-aged married people who have to be jolted out of their complacency so they can learn that life really is worth living, then…
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