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Tall Dark Stranger Isn't a Woody Allen Classic
 Tall Dark Stranger Isn't 
 a Woody Allen Classic 
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Sep 24, 2010 1:18 PM CDT

Tall Dark Stranger Isn't a Woody Allen Classic

But critics think it's a decent return to familiar territory

(Newser) - Woody Allen is back exploring familiar ground with another stellar cast (Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, etc.). The result? Critics were amused but don't think it ranks high in the Woody pantheon.
  • Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times : "This kinder, gentler Allen is still clever, still amusing, and
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Gekko's Still Got Juice in Money Never Sleeps

 Gekko's Still Got Juice 
 in Money Never Sleeps  
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Sep 24, 2010 6:30 AM CDT

Gekko's Still Got Juice in Money Never Sleeps

Michael Douglas is Wall Street sequel's best (toxic) asset

(Newser) - "Greed is good," Gordon Gekko famously said in Oliver Stone's 1987 Wall Street, but maybe not in film directors. Critics say Stone crams too many story lines and sermons into the sequel, Money Never Sleeps, though Michael Douglas is still deliciously slimy as the ex-con stock trader.
  • Douglas
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Critics Love Ben Affleck's Heist Flick Town
 Critics Love Ben Affleck's 
 Heist Flick The Town 
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Sep 17, 2010 6:48 AM CDT

Critics Love Ben Affleck's Heist Flick The Town

Director-star excels in Boston thriller

(Newser) - Boston bank robber drama The Town is the heist movie of the year and Ben Affleck, who co-wrote, directed, and stars, has never been better, say critics.
  • Ben Affleck, directing his second movie, proves that 2007's excellent Gone Baby Gone was no fluke, writes Rick Bentley at the State . Affleck
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Ebert Revives At the Movies
 Ebert Revives 
 At the Movies 
Sep 11, 2010 1:48 PM CDT

Ebert Revives At the Movies

Iconic review show will return to PBS

(Newser) - Hey may not be able to talk, but you should know by now that isn’t enough to stop Roger Ebert. He’s reviving his iconic At the Movies, the film review program he started 35 years ago with Gene Siskel. Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, produced by Ebert...

Romantics Nothing to Swoon Over
 Romantics Nothing 
 to Swoon Over   
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Sep 10, 2010 8:09 AM CDT

Romantics Nothing to Swoon Over

Critics don't find much to love in wedding melodrama

(Newser) - A group of 30ish Yale alumni reunite and suffer assorted life crises the night before a wedding in the Romantics, a melodrama that hasn't won the hearts of many critics. The ensemble cast includes Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, and Anna Paguin.
  • This movie doesn't add much to the wedding-gathering genre,
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Last Exorcism Delivers Surprising Thrills

 Last Exorcism Delivers 
 Surprising Thrills 
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Aug 27, 2010 5:05 PM CDT

Last Exorcism Delivers Surprising Thrills

Fake documentary actually clever, until the ending

(Newser) - It gives the tired Exorcist franchise yet one more turn, with a Blair Witch-style fake documentary premise to boot, but most critics think the Last Exorcism manages to be a decent summer flick (until the end).
  • Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle : "What looks like a late-summer throwaway is a
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Critics Can Take or Leave Takers
 Critics Can Take 
 or Leave Takers  
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Aug 27, 2010 9:16 AM CDT

Critics Can Take or Leave Takers

Slick heist thriller feels recycled

(Newser) - The makers of Takers borrowed a lot of good bits from other movies in making their heist thriller, with fairly satisfying but not stellar results, say critics.
  • The story of an upscale gang of Los Angeles thieves is "a buffet of Gritty Crime Drama clichés that offers no
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Piranha 3D a Bloody Blast

 Piranha 3D a Bloody Blast 
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Aug 20, 2010 6:46 AM CDT

Piranha 3D a Bloody Blast

'The Citizen Kane of killer piranha movies'

(Newser) - Piranha 3D is as good a killer piranha movie as you'll ever see, and looks set to be the horror film of the summer, say critics.
  • "This movie is a complete blast," writes Christy Lemire at the AP . It's "cleverly knowing without collapsing into parody," she
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Film Rips Apart Nazis' Posh Depiction of Warsaw Ghetto

Yael Hersonski takes on Das Ghetto

(Newser) - A stunning new documentary goes into limited release today, taking a different and absorbing look at the Holocaust. Dubbed A Film Unfinished, the piece, from Israeli director Yael Hersonski, revolves around a never-completed German propaganda film called “Das Ghetto.” Shot in 1942, the silent film contrasted Jews living...

Formulaic Expendables a Tired Retread
 Formulaic 
 Expendables 
 a Tired Retread 
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Aug 13, 2010 12:41 PM CDT

Formulaic Expendables a Tired Retread

Action flick less than the sum of its all-star parts

(Newser) - Sylvester Stallone directed and co-stars, alongside a Magnificent Seven-style roster of action-film legends—Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, and Jason Statham—but critics have some issues with The Expendables.
  • James Verniere (and a friend), Boston Herald : "Hulk like Expendables. It SMASH. Guns go BANG-BANG.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: a Hip, Inventive Blast
 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: 
 a Hip, Inventive Blast 
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Aug 13, 2010 10:31 AM CDT

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: a Hip, Inventive Blast

Michael Cera and original storytelling make this a winner

(Newser) - Critics generally love the inventive storytelling of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a very modern romance that stars Michael Cera. It's based on a graphic novel, and it shows.
  • Joe Neumaier, Daily News : "Plugged into some kind of mental electrical socket by director Edgar Wright, this is a romantic
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Eat, Pray, Love ... Yawn
 Eat, Pray, Love ... Yawn 
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Aug 13, 2010 6:42 AM CDT

Eat, Pray, Love ... Yawn

Glossy adaptation of memoir lacks spice, say critics

(Newser) - Eat, Pray, Love looks lovely but lacks both the spice and the depth of the best-selling memoir it's based on, say critics. Julia Roberts stars as a jaded New York divorcee traveling the world to seek enlightenment.
  • Roberts' Liz says she wants to move outside her comfort zone, writes Kirk
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The Other Guys : Summer's Best Comedy
 The Other Guys: 
 Summer's Best Comedy 
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Aug 6, 2010 11:30 AM CDT

The Other Guys: Summer's Best Comedy

Even if you don't like Will Ferrell, you'll laugh

(Newser) - Despite a few reviewers who think it’s basically an extended Saturday Night Live sketch, The Other Guys snagged a high score on the Tomatometer —and some are calling the Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg cop comedy the funniest movie of 2010:
  • If you’re tired of Ferrell's typical “clueless
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Charlie St. Cloud: Meh, But Zac Efron Goes Shirtless!

Critics aren't impressed, but most think Zac is great

(Newser) - Critics agree on one thing when it comes to Charlie St. Cloud: Tween girls will love it, thanks to the number of times Zac Efron takes off his shirt. Beyond that they’re split, though the majority aren't enthusiastic:
  • The movie, about a teen who loses his brother in a
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Dinner for Schmucks Not Quite a Gut-Buster
 Dinner for Schmucks 
 Not Quite a Gut-Buster 
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Jul 30, 2010 7:23 AM CDT

Dinner for Schmucks Not Quite a Gut-Buster

Steve Carell's schmuck praised in remake of French farce

(Newser) - Dinner for Schmucks has a great premise and two top comic stars in Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, say critics, though opinions split widely on whether it's actually funny.
  • The remake of a French farce in which heartless execs compete to bring the biggest loser to dinner "is lumbering,
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Ramona and Beezus Sweet, Harmless
 Ramona and Beezus 
 Sweet, Harmless  
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Jul 23, 2010 1:39 PM CDT

Ramona and Beezus Sweet, Harmless

Selena Gomez stars in adaptation of Beverly Cleary classics

(Newser) - Ramona and Beezus plays fast and loose with its source material, the classic children's books by Beverly Cleary, but the family movie—Disney tween favorite Selena Gomez's film debut—generally has the critics on its side.
  • Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer : "The overall tone of the film is sunny, with
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Critics Salty, Sweet on Angelina's Latest

Not everybody's sold on the new action thriller Salt

(Newser) - If you rely on critics for your movie-viewing choices, just flip a coin on Angelina Jolie's new save-the-world thriller, Salt. They're about evenly split:
  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle : "When exploited properly—as Salt does, keeping her human and vulnerable, so that the character's amazing ability and ingenuity continue
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Inception: It's 'James Bond on Acid'
  Inception: It's 
  'James Bond on Acid' 
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Jul 16, 2010 7:16 AM CDT

Inception: It's 'James Bond on Acid'

A visually stunning film about the stuff dreams are made of

(Newser) - Inception, a "James Bond-on-acid" take on dreams and dreaming is being hailed as a sleek, psychedelic summer blockbuster that makes up in daring what it lacks in heart. The critics agree Inception is bound to capture your imagination—and maybe even blow your mind:
  • Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Anything but Magical

Fantasia ripoff is 'the opposite of alchemy'

(Newser) - Nobody is cheering for this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced pretender to the Potter throne, based (sort of) on the iconic scene from Fantasia. Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel play a sorcerer and his protege on a mission to ... do something—anything!—involving lots of spells and special effects. The result is...

Despicable Me Good, But It's No Toy Story 3

Animated feature is strong, if generic, hyper: critics

(Newser) - Critics agree that French studio Illumination Entertainment has made a strong first entry into feature animation with Despicable Me, featuring Steve Carrell voicing a cartoon baddy who adopts three little girls. But it has the misfortune to premiere within weeks of Pixar's beloved Toy Story 3.
  • Despicable Me "cannot
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