Archive | Movie Reviews
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Movie review: Nicolas Refn helps Gosling, Hendricks ‘Drive’ into theaters
"Strong brutal bloody violence." "Drive," the action thriller set for release Friday starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, is rated R for that very reason. (Among others.
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Movie review: ‘The Debt’ is a twisted, tantalizing thrill ride
The Debt, a taut thriller that opens in Tel Aviv in 1997, is a spy movie that's more concerned with the suspense inside a tiny apartment or a messy cubicle than it is with car chases or pyrotechnics. It's terrifically suspenseful, however, and at times supremely skin-crawly.
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Movie review: ‘Idiot’ surprisingly smart
"I try to do good, but I just screw up." Those are the words of Ned, a "bio-dynamic" New York farmer played by Paul Rudd in "Our Idiot Brother," a Sundance Film Festival comedy recently released in theaters.
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Movie review: ‘Shark Night 3D’ bites off more than it can chew
Plunging into previously charted waters, "Shark Night 3D" (2011) resembles, at first glance, a hybrid of the classic "Jaws" (1975) and last summer's shockingly successful "Piranha 3D" (2010).
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Movie review: ‘The Trip’ succeeds with dry, British banter
"The Trip" is a mostly improvised quasi-documentary about two British actors touring northern England, reviewing high-scale restaurants and one-upping each other in their impressions. If you doubt the hilarity in that premise, you can be forgiven, but you'd also be missing out.
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Movie review: ’30 Minutes or Less’ sends summer out on high note
Two years ago, director Ruben Fleischer's debut feature "Zombieland" showed his ability to juggle comedy and the violent anarchy of a zombie apocalypse.
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Film review: ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’
In an industry eager to make a quick buck for little effort, filmmakers are quickly running out of original ideas, leading to a constant stream of remakes and reboots.
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Movie review: “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" DIRECTED BY: Rupert Wyatt STARRING: James Franco, Andy Serkis, John Lithgow and Freida Pinto RATED: PG-13 This time of year, it's unwise to expect an intellectual exercise at the movies.
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Hip-hop documentary drops phat beats
Michael Rapaport ably, artfully and brilliantly told the story of hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, answering many questions fans and media members have had about the group, which hasn’t thrown down a record since 1998, yet still has one album left on their original deal with Jive ...