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An ambitious, epic, operatic action delirium, the dark and intensely violent Sucker Punch is One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest on acid. The film is a glorious disaster, a mind-bogglingly messy, perversely gorgeous piece [...]

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It is ironic that Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre, one of the books that could be most relied upon to elicit groans and yawns from a high school English class, is also one [...]

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Rarely has the title of a film better described its contents. Win Win is yet another funny, poignant and endearing creation by writer/actor/director Tom McCarthy. Turns out, sometimes there is truth in advertising.

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One complaint you cannot level at Limitless is that it is unoriginal or uncreative. In an upcoming summer of senseless sequels and repugnant remakes, Limitless—warts and all—is at least something we’ve never seen before.

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From their inspired horror spoof Shaun of the Dead, to their enjoyable action movie send up Hot Fuzz, to their new cute and clever alien road movie Paul, the hilarious team of Simon Pegg [...]

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I have a friend who loves airport novels. You know the type. You’re getting ready for a long flight when you realize you’ve forgotten something to read. So you drop by the airport bookstore [...]

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Following the Red Riding Hood screening, I expressed my feelings about the film to a colleague who was lucky enough to have been otherwise occupied. “Was it really that bad?” she asked. “Bad?” I [...]

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Recently, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking suggested that if alien life exists, we shouldn’t be in a rush to make first contact. “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,” he said. “I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all [...]

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Most animated films are made for kids but contain just enough smarts to entertain adults. Rango is made for adults and contains just enough fun to entertain kids. Rango, which just may be the most beautiful and certainly among the strangest films you will see all year, is Disney by way of Hunter S. Thompson. [...]

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In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey discovers, with a little supernatural assistance, that he has a very precise destiny and that one misstep could generate a radically different future. The Adjustment Bureau is [...]

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