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January 01, 1990 - November 18, 2012 + Film Reviews
Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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A primate shelter becomes the scene of an epic jailbreak. Swarming chimps turn San Francisco into a surreal circus...
Crazy, Stupid, Love

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A romantic comedy of intertwined lives, overlapping dialogue and naked contrivances -- more of them than naked bodies, because Crazy, Stupid, Love is really quite...
Another Earth

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Mike Cahill's debut feature exerts a gravitational pull out of proportion to its size through powerful performances, a lyrical spirit and a depth of conviction...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

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So many good films come to bad ends, but not the tales of Harry Potter...
Project Nim

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This is one of those weeks when going to the movies makes you wonder about the movie industry's future... But let me tell you about...
Cars 2

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For more than 15 years, Pixar has made great movies in the joyous spirit of Buzz Lightyear's motto: "To infinity and beyond..."
Buck

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It's worth remembering that the term "feelgood" grew out of the drug culture... But a really good film like Buck does much more than serve...
Super 8

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As anyone who's seen the Super 8 trailer knows, the teenage auteurs are shooting a night scene alongside a train track when a freight train...
X-Men: First Class

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Like all the other X-Men movies before it, X-Men: First Class preaches the gospel of mutant pride. But this movie turns out to b a...
The Tree of Life

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Many of the images in The Tree of Life are remarkable for their grandeur... Others for their grandiosity... Some of the most memorable, though, are...
Midnight in Paris

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In Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's beguiling and then bedazzling new comedy, nostalgia isn't at all what it used to be -- it's smarter, sweeter,...
Bridesmaids

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If Bridesmaids is only a chick flick, then call me a chick...
Fast Five

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Fast Five...with bellowing muscle cars, screeching exotics and an armor-plated monster that makes the Hummer look demure.
Incendies

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Let me tell you about the film that should have won the best foreign-language Oscar this year but didn't...
Rio; Atlas Shrugged, Part 1; The Conspirator

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Today, Joe considers the rich 3-D hues of Rio, a business exec struggling to keep her business alive, and the first woman executed by the...