Movie Reviews

If you loved the reefer-fueled hijinks of “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” (2004), are you preordained to laugh yourself stupid when the duo goes waaaay down south in "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay".

 

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As Kate Holbrook, the unfashionably infertile heroine of "Baby Mama," Tina Fey embodies the reproductive flip-side of "Juno," "Knocked Up," "Waitress," et al.

 

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Beware, filmmaker, the dread "erotic thriller." It has stunted greatness.

 

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Like a shrewd salesman who keeps his suitcase to the side, Thomas McCarthy's “The Visitor” doesn't immediately announce itself as a movie about immigration policy.

 

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Far less fascinating as an over-packaged, over-plotted thriller than it was as a nonfiction book, 21 is the sort of movie that inspires the question, "Why didn't they just make it into a documentary?" Certainly, the story of six MIT blackjack geeks who fleece Las Vegas would have been more informative and credible that way.

 

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As a battle-tested Iraq war hero who cuts and runs when Uncle Sam invites him back for more, Ryan Phillippe embodies the progressive protest-politics of Kimberly Peirce's Stop Loss.

 

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Adam Carolla has always been a bob-and-weave kind of comic – whining about this, riffing on that, finding humor in the details.

 

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Under the Same Moon  is a sweet but forgettable togetherness yarn, poised ever-so-lightly on the knife edge of America's immigration debate.

 

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From the “Weird Science” tradition of geek-outsourcing comes “Drillbit Taylor,” the latest – and, arguably, least funny – of the extended family of Judd Apatow-produced comedies.

 

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One could call Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" the "feel-bad movie of the year" and not be incorrect – to be sure, Haneke's shot-for-shot remake of his 1997 German-language thriller, about a family terrorized in their vacation home by a pair of ever-so-polite killers, is a powerful downer.

 

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