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January 01, 1990 - October 03, 2012 + Film Reviews
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Waiting for Superman 
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Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko leaves prison at the beginning of Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps -- he served eight years for crimes committed...
Easy A; The Town
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Why am I so pleased with the new high school comedy Easy A? Because the movie, in spite of a few flaws, seems to have...
Telluride Film Festival
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Every year I go to the Telluride Film Festival with the same fervent hope -- to put the summer's junk behind me and recharge my...
The Tillman Story; Soul Kitchen
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A new documentary called The Tillman Story is actually three stories in one...
Soul Kitchen, made by the German-born Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin, is a delirious...
Mao's Last Dancer
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Sometimes the best way to see a movie is knowing nothing about the plot. At other times, a sense of what's to come increases the...
Cairo Time; The Other Guys
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For quite a lot of time, the new film Cairo Time seems to be just a pretext for the camera to follow Patricia Clarkson around...
The Kids Are All Right
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The Kids Are All Right is a thrillingly funny and casually profound film that Lisa Cholodenko directed from a script she wrote with Stuart Blumberg....
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse; The Last Airbender
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You'd never guess what the best part of the new Twilight saga turns out to be. It isn't blood-sucking monsters doing their thing, though there's...
Toy Story 3
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While the entertainment conglomerates have been churning out ever cheesier sequels, Pixar has been the Fort Knox of honest feelings, and so it remains. Fifteen...
Winter's Bone
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Instead of belaboring this week's pseudo-spectacular offerings from the studios -- a mediocre remake of The Karate Kid and a benumbing big-screen version of the...
Splice; Ondine
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Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews Splice and Ondine.
Sex and the City 2; Father of My Children
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In previous installments of Sex and the City the ancient mystery of what women want was basically solved -- they want love, sex and designer...
Shrek Forever After
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At one point in "Shrek Forever After" the hero sees his face on a poster nailed to a tree and says, "Sure is great to...
Robin Hood
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Of all the Robin Hoods that have come and gone, at least one of them wondrously zestful -- that's Errol Flynn's -- and one of...
Iron Man 2
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Tony Stark creates a new element in "Iron Man 2," though it's no big deal. Robert Downey Jr.'s zillionaire genius, who was revealed to be...
