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Edge of Tomorrow
Are there moments you would like to relive, so you could make a different choice? It's a universal fantasy that has played out many times in books and films. It can be a gift (About Time)....Read the...
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Think Like a Man Too
A romantic comedy based on Steve Harvey's book of advice for...Read the full post here »
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Jersey Boys
Winston Churchill famously said that history is written by the victors. In movie terms, that means that when you see the names of just two of the original Four Seasons listed as the film's producers,...
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
The script for the new Transformers movie is basically: Noise. Explosions. Chases. Guy-on-guy fighting. Transformer-on-Transformer fighting. Brief pauses for father-teenage daughter...Read the full...
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Earth to Echo
Three kids go on a wild adventure and make an extra-terrestrial friend in this updated take on films like "E.T." and "The Goonies." It being 2014, that means that the found footage genre, pioneered in...
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Tammy
Top talent is wasted in this un-funny and disappointing vanity production from Melissa McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone. They wrote it, or, more accurately, assembled it from pieces of other...
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
The visuals are stunning, the details are witty, the 3D effects are splendid, the songs are lively, the voice actors are top-notch, but the storyline feels like an episode of "Thomas the Tank...
View ArticleWish I Was Here
My intention was to review Zach Braff's new film without mentioning the controversy he stirred up in funding it via Kickstarter. My view was that what mattered was the movie itself, and the kerfluffle...
View ArticleExclusive Clip: Believe Me
College students start a sham Christian charity in Believe Me, written and directed by Will Bakke. We're honored to have an exclusive early look.
View ArticleAnd So It Goes
A second marriage is, as Samuel Johnson famously said, "The triumph of hope over experience." And as lyricist Sammy Cahn wrote in the song Bing Crosby sang in "High Time," "Love is lovelier the second...
View ArticleInto the Storm
Let's get this out of the way up front. It's no "Twister," which is not just the "Citizen Kane" of tornado movies, but a loveably cheesy thrill ride of a film that holds up very well even though its...
View ArticleSin City: A Dame to Kill For
If you want to not just see but hear an eyeball being pulverized, then see "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For." If you want to see and hear it in the company of an audience who thinks that's funny, buy a...
View ArticleThe Expendables 3
Everything I said about the last two "Expendables" movies, blah blah, with some new additions from the AARP branch of the action heroes club: Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas, Wesley Snipes, and Mel...
View ArticleThe November Man
Pierce Brosnan knows what it is like to play a spy in a big-budget, glamorous, blockbuster. He was the most urbane of Bonds in four movies. He knows what it is to play a seedier spy in a prestige,...
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
All hail Caesar! The intelligence-enhanced ape from Rise of the Planet of the Apes takes center stage in this sequel, which begins ten years after...Read the full post here »
View ArticleDolphin Tale 2
The warmest, wisest, most pleasurable live-action family film of the year is "Dolphin Tale 2," even better than the 2011 original. This really is that rare movie for the whole family. The first film...
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Magic in the Moonlight
Woody Allen's 44th film is an amuse bouche without a meal, a dollop of whipped cream without the dessert underneath. In last year's film, "Blue Jasmine," the strength of the performances (especially...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Dear Michael Bay, Just because you were able to turn one Saturday cartoon series for children into a PG-13 blockbuster, based on nostalgia on the part of its now-teen and 20-something audience and some...
View ArticleTusk
You can make a good movie about slackers, for example "Slackers," from Richard Linklater and "Clerks" from Kevin Smith. But you can't make a good movie by a slacker, and Smith does not seem willing to...
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