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January 01, 1990 - February 15, 2013 + Film Reviews
Eagle vs Shark; Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 
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Don't expect to see a lot of New Zealand's natural beauties in Eagle vs Shark.
This is an endearingly odd romantic comedy – a debut feature...
La Vie en Rose; Show Business: The Road to Broadway
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In the spirit of Edith Piaf's signature song, no, I
regret nothing about La Vie en Rose -- not the narrative confusion, not the
sketchy details or...
Knocked Up
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No conclusion has ever been more foregone: Knocked Up is going to be a huge hit. The hero’s a slob, the story is about what...
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End; Angel-A
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Stumbling out of the theater after the new Pirates of the Caribbean had run its semi-coherent course, I thought about the movie it might have...
Once
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It takes all of ten seconds for John Carney’s new movie “Once” to announce itself as something special. A handsome young street musician in Dublin...
28 Weeks Later; Georgia Rule
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There's no better fun for movie lovers than a small, unheralded film that turns out to be terrific -- unless it's a small, unheralded sequel...
Spider-Man 3; Waitress; Away from Her
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I'm going to give fairly short shrift to Spider-Man 3 because it is what it is -- lots of spectacular action and lots of unaccountably...
Stephanie Daley
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Quiet carries the day--and haunts the nights--in Stephanie Daley.
You won't find any histrionics here... no smash ending and no action
sequences-- unless you count a collision...
Fracture; Everything's Gone Green
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A thriller called Fracture is exactly what's been needed to banish a winter-long case of movie blues...
Perfect Stranger; Disturbia
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Life is full of choices, and Halle Berry has made another bad one with Perfect Stranger. This is a perfectly off-putting thriller that was directed...
Grindhouse; The Hoax
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Grindhouse is an exuberant double feature by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. It's an evocation of the horror flicks that used to play in moldering...
Blades of Glory; After the Wedding; The Lookout
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Joe Morgenstern reviews the comedy, Blades of Glory; After the Wedding, Denmark's official entry to the 2006 Oscars, and The Lookout, a fast-paced crime...
Reign Over Me; Offside
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In the opening scene of “Reign Over Me,” we hear the strains of Graham Nash’s “Simple Man,” and see a spectral figure, head encased in...
Premonition; The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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Anyone who’s seen the awful trailer for Premonition is bound to have premonitions about the movie. After
seeing the movie, I have postmonitions about Sandra Bullock...
The Namesake; 300
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Early in the course of The Namesake, a young and beautiful Indian woman stands alone in a spare American kitchen, pondering the riddle of breakfast....
