AltWeeklies Wire
Misfits Fits Right Innew
When delinquents gain super powers, that can't be a good thing ... but it makes for great television.
Boise Weekly |
Brady Moore |
07-06-2011 |
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Revenge Fantasy: Pals Laugh Bosses into a Shallow Grave
A much more successful bromance comedy than "The Hangover 2," "Horrible Bosses" benefits from the volatile comic mixture of chemistry between its actors and a genuinely quirky script.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-05-2011 |
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon is Michael Bay's loud, jingoistic metaphornew
"We're pretty much all Republicans around here."
Best Thing About Latest Transformers Is That It Should Be the Lastnew
Textbooks be damned. The use of alternative histories has been such a go-to fad in cinematic curriculum recently that no one should be surprised if impressionable movie-going kids really start believing vigilante superheroes helped earn America a victory in Vietnam (Watchmen) or that young mutants saved the country from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis (X-Men: First Class).
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-29-2011 |
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Bad Teachernew
Bad Teacher’s one joke is right there in the title.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
06-29-2011 |
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Cars 2new
After 16 years of smooth sailing down a highway of animation bliss, the check engine light is officially blinking at Disney/Pixar with their newest feature film Cars 2.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-29-2011 |
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Ozploitation in the Outbacknew
Does anyone really think of Mel Gibson as being Australian at this point, or is he just a talented and offensive Hollywood madman with extremely bad taste?
San Antonio Current |
Mark Jones |
06-29-2011 |
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It Ain't Easy ...new
'Green Lantern' melds a lame premise with lazy special effects.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-28-2011 |
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Tags: Ryan Reynolds, Green Lantern 3D
Not Reiser-ing To The Occasionnew
Build it and they will come ... and then they'll cancel it.
Boise Weekly |
Damon Hunzeker |
06-27-2011 |
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Coogan and Brydon take their shtick on the road in The Tripnew
The reliably adventurous Michael Winterbottom has latched onto a pretty foolproof low-budget gambit with this amiable, often riotous road film.
Diaz Talks Dirty: Move Over Bad Santa, There's a New Baddie in Town
For the first time since her unforgettable appearance in the Farrelly Brothers' 1998 gross out comedy "There's Something About Mary" Cameron Diaz fulfills her comedic promise.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
06-21-2011 |
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Secret Agent Bland
Cars 2 doesn’t earn the support of those who defended the original.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-21-2011 |
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Pretentiousness the True Leading Role in The Art of Getting Bynew
While one could argue about where the line between brilliance and bullshit starts to blur with films like Richard Linklater’s 2001 mindbender Waking Life, Darren Aronofsky’s 2006 mystical sci-fi drama The Fountain, or anything from the conceptual mind of director Terrence Malick, the creative weight they carry should be considered when deciding whether you ultimately deem the work profound or phony.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
06-20-2011 |
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A Scorching Odyssey of Death and Rebirthnew
The opening sequence in Incendies is a stunning piece of poetic filmmaking: A desert in the Middle East framed in the window of a barracks where a dozen young Muslim conscripts readied for combat are having their heads shaved. Radiohead’s haunting “You and Whose Army?” quietly plays as the camera zooms in on a child soldier who refuses to blink.
San Antonio Current |
Gregg Barrios |
06-20-2011 |
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J.J. Abrams Aims High With Super 8, and Nearly Arrivesnew
As much as filmmaker J.J. Abrams (Star Trek) would have liked for his nostalgic sci-fi Super 8 to convey as much enchantment as a Steven Spielberg-directed masterpiece like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it doesn’t quite reach that ambitious goal.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-20-2011 |
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