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January 01, 1990 - January 07, 2013 + Film Reviews
Green Zone 
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During the exciting but eventually wayward course of Green Zone, Jason Bourne discovers the truth about weapons of mass destruction, then teaches a sloppy reporter...
Alice in Wonderland
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The Cheshire Cat brags about his evaporating skills in Tim Burton's 3-D Alice in Wonderland, and the movie has its own way of evaporating before...
Extraordinary Measures; Creation
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Extraordinary Measures requires extraordinary tolerance for bathos, bombast and plain old unpleasantness. It’s a fictionalized – and sadly trivialized – adaptation of a non-fiction book,...
The Last Station
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The Last Station is Michael Hoffman's evocation of the last years of writer Leo Tolstoy. It's a "seduction that draws us into a vanished world...
Youth in Revolt; Daybreakers
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Youth in Revolt is an endearing coming-of-age comedy that stars Michael Cera. In one way, only, but in a significant way, Cera reminds me of...
Avatar
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James Camerion's Avatar takes place on a planet called Pandora, where American corporations and their military mercenaries have set up bases to mine a surpassingly...
Invictus; The Lovely Bones
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Until now, America's curiosity about rugby has been on a par with its knowledge, but this could change with the advent of Invictus... Clint Eastwood's...
Up in the Air
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The best of Up in the Air -- meaning most of it -- is right up there with the fresh and sophisticated comedies of Hollywood’s...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; Red Cliff
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This year's prize for clumsiest title goes to Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. I wanted to get that out of the way so...
2012; Pirate Radio
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2012 is Roland Emmerich's latest assault on planet Earth and its moviegoers, and it isn't the end of the world: it only feels that way...Pirate...
A Christmas Carol; Precious
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To put it bluntly, and Scroogely, Disney's 3-D animated version of A Christmas Carol is a calamity...
In a shockingly beautiful new film called Precious, one...
This Is It; Cirque du Soleil
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After all the media madness about Michael Jackson over all the years and decades, it comes as bittersweet news that he lives vividly in This...
Amelia
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I've seen the movie Amelia, and I can tell you that Amelia Earhart is still missing...
Where the Wild Things Are
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The movie version of Where the Wild Things Are honors the book in every imaginable way...and in ways no one could have imagined until Spike...
An Education
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This week brings a thrilling new film called An Education. It's a tale of an English schoolgirl's hard-won wisdom, and it's thrilling for all sorts...
