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Now Playing: Stephanie Zacharek's Video Reviews!

Today Movieline introduces a new video feature: Not-so-live, from my living room, reviews of this week's movies. My video review of the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz…

Friday, June 25, 2010

REVIEW: Dull, Unfunny Grown Ups Pees in the Summer Movie Pool

The perhaps intentional irony of Grown Ups is that it doesn't appear to have been made by -- or even for -- actual grown-ups. Maybe that's supposed to be part of its…

Thursday, June 24, 2010

REVIEW: Low-Key, High-Octane Restrepo Captures War's Everyday Realities

In early summer 2007, filmmakers Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington settled in with a platoon of 15 soldiers newly arrived in the Korengal Valley of eastern…

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

REVIEW: Robotic Tom Cruise Weighs Down Knight and Day

Tom Cruise is no longer cool, a truth he just can't face -- if he could, he'd be cooler. In the opening moments of Knight and Day, Cruise strides through an airport in a…

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

REVIEW: Don't Hate Jonah Hex For Being Leisurely

There's something to be said for having low expectations, especially when it comes to summer movies. The pictures we expect to be great, if only because they've been…

Friday, June 18, 2010

REVIEW: Toy Story 3 Brings Series to Brilliant, Bittersweet Close

The problem with sequels isn't always, necessarily, that they're worse than the movies they're piggybacking onto. Some -- The Godfather, Part II, The Empire Strikes Back…

Thursday, June 17, 2010

REVIEW: Characters Deserve Better in Violent Killer Inside Me

The brash violence of Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me -- adapted from Jim Thompson's merciless and enthralling 1952 pulp novel about a psychotic West Texas…

Thursday, June 17, 2010

REVIEW: The A-Team Pushes the Action-Junk Envelope in All the Wrong Ways

The plot of The A-Team can be summed up thus: Stuff happens, connected by dialogue. Helicopters explode; human beings are nearly incinerated; trucks burst into flames…

Thursday, June 10, 2010

REVIEW: No Rest For the Wicked in Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

In Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg's illuminating but not lacerating documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, the comic says, "No man has ever told me I look beautiful…

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

REVIEW: Winter's Bone a Little Too Pleased With its Own Folky Bleakness

Debra Granik's Winter's Bone is one of those movies -- like last year's inner-city down-a-thon, Precious -- that can't quite make a distinction between profundity and…

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

REVIEW: Katherine Heigl Just the Beginning of Killers' Problems

In a world more perfect than the one we live in, you'd expect a romantic comedy called Killers to, well, kill -- with charm if nothing else. But the best Killers can…

Friday, June 4, 2010

REVIEW: Get Him to the Greek Finds the Sweet Spot of Rock Debauchery

In the unapologetically crude and shamelessly silly Get Him to the Greek, Jonah Hill plays a low-level record-company exec, Aaron Green, assigned to escort washed-up…

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

REVIEW: Ondine Captivates With Magic and Mastery

Long before "glamour" was a word applied all too casually to movie stars and red-carpet gowns, it was a term used to denote an enchantment or spell, a cobwebby thing…

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

REVIEW: Gyllenhaal, Prince of Persia Delivers Throwback Movie Thrills

Prince of Persia is a maybe-not-so-accurate historical epic based on a video game -- and that's the reason to see it, not stay away from it. By now everyone has seen the…

Thursday, May 27, 2010

REVIEW: Yes, Sex and the City 2 Really is as Horrific as You've Heard

As I suffered through the nearly two-and-a-half-hour runtime of Sex and the City 2, I kept asking myself: What might I have done wrong, in a past life or in this one…

Thursday, May 27, 2010

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