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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is superior to its two predecessors in every possible way. The mythology finally feels comfortable in its own skin, aware of both its strengths and limitations, and appears to be striding confidently into [...]

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It’s official sports fans; we have a formidable contender for worst film of the year!

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I am Love, easily one of the most sensual films I have ever seen, is ravishing, an operatic melodrama of stunning beauty and luxuriant texture. It is a thing elemental, a piece of art that works as [...]

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Winter’s Bone, a Sundance winner about what happens when a primal need for justice crashes violently into abiding and intractable tradition, is a gothic film noir set in the cold and cheerless Ozark mountains. Though it is [...]

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One of the main characters in the new action-comedy Knight and Day gets knocked out so many times it feels like she spends half the movie unconscious. I don’t blame her. I wish I’d spent the entire [...]

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When I was a child, I had a large stuffed buffalo. At night, I’d imagine myself a big game hunter on the old frontier. By rubbing my hair on the fur, I generated enough static electricity to [...]

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The Karate Kid proves that a good enough story can be retold again and again and still have something to say to each successive generation (the truly great stories need only be told once). You will cheer [...]

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This weekend is one that the children of the 80s have either been salivating over for months, or are doing their very best to pretend does not exist. The two big films opening this weekend, The A-Team [...]

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Granted, it’s only June and there is still plenty of 2010 left, but if the world were to end tomorrow, Get Him to the Greek would easily go down as the funniest movie of the year. Borrowing [...]

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Both colleagues and lovers, Clive and Elsa (Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, two indie actors not known for their genre work), are rock star scientists, genetic engineers who bump into their faces on magazine covers every time [...]

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