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In Theaters

The Grey

Joe Carnahan’s poetically virile Alaskan survival tale offers up

some of the most unpleasant moments you can spend at the movies.

I guess that’s the point...

Joyful Noise

Don’t let all that corn-shucking gosh-darn-it

stuff fool you: this is one canny movie...

War Horse

Steven Spielberg’s epic drama is technically superb and

clearly heartfelt.  It is also, I’m sad to say, an odd mix

that sometimessoars, sometimes, doesn’t...

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

By focusing on the strongest part of the best selling novels, David Fincher

and Steve Zallian have delivered a stylish, mesmerizing thriller...

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

If Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was too cerebral for you,

this movie should make you very happy...

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

This is a mass appeal movie that actually appeals. Jolly good.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Each scene in this wonderfully mounted production is so near perfect,

Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John LeCarre’s classic Cold War espionage

novel can almost be forgiven for not tieing it all together as well...

I Melt With You

I don’t know who was more miserable: the

charactersin this movie or me, watching them...

A Dangerous Method

David Cronenberg’s take on the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jungis not just a

fascinating look back at the developments of psychotherapy, but very much a remarkable

love story, one between two men and the woman who drove them apart...

The Artist

This is a movie that sweeps over you like a warm breeze with a

self-assured artistry as undeniable as it’s soulful lessons of love...

The Descendants

This movie had me the minute George Clooney, as the responsible but not

particularly engaged Matt King, describes himself as the “backup parent”...

J. Edgar

This is an awfully polite movie about a man who was anything but...

Tower Heist

Silly and well intentioned, this comic action flick feels like a big overstuffed buffet…

boasting a few hearty treats and bloated with a bunch of excessive other stuff...

Ides of March

Ironic: this is a movie about politics that, like most

politicians, promises far more than it ever delivers...

50/50

Unsentimental, smart and funny, this dramatic comedy

is the best film about illness I’ve ever seen...

Moneyball

Like Billy Beane’s 2002 Oakland A’s, this movie may not be a

total winner, but it sure offers up a lot of memorable thrills...

I Don’t Know How She Does It.

Do you have to be a married, working mom to really appreciate this one?

Well, to be fair (one of the basic themes of this comedy), it’s not going to hurt...

Drive

It is with the utmost respect I compare Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive

to some of the seminal movies of the 1970’s….because Drive is as

heartpoundingly good as it is slim, stark and hard to shake...

Contagion

Chilly, but not chilling, Steven Soderbergh’s story

of a worldwide pandemic is oddly antiseptic...

The Help

Well intentioned and likeable, I would have loved this one had its take on the women

of 1960’s Mississippi been a little less, pardon the expression, black and white...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

This nonsensical tale, by tapping into our most basic emotions, delivers a

science fiction movie that makes profound sense, especially right now...

Cowboys and Aliens

Considering its pedigree, I was expecting (and hoping) for more,

but, as it stands, the mash up of genres still entertains...

Crazy, Stupid Love

I love this movie. Crazy, smart, loving and laugh out loud funny, this romantic

comedy is the best of its kind not just for this, but for many recent years...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

This, the final chapter, is a remarkable achievement:

as piercingly true as it is astonishingly magical...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

This clumsy adaptation of Lisa See’s popular novel may not be the biggest problem

Rupert Murdoch’s got on his plate, but it sure isn’t going to help things, either...

Horrible Bosses

Would I have really enjoyed this trio-in-trouble comedy if

I hadn’t felt it was a force feed of the Hangover formula?

A Better Life

Chris Weitz’s light touch has made this incredibly

timely immigrant story especially profound...

Green Lantern

If, indeed, it is true there are only seven original stories in this world, surely

the super-hero comic genre’s got a corner on the market on one of them...

X Men: First Class

Director Matthew Vaughn has shaken the cobwebs off the franchise

and confidently delivered this prequel as a first class blockbuster...

The Hangover, Part II

In this world of give-‘em-what-they-want, the team behind the 2009 comedy

hit has reconvened to try and do just that. Too bad it doesn’t work...

The Tree of Life

Ambitious and imperfect, stunning and overwhelming, profound and perplexing,

Terrence Malick’s mediation on human life and our place in the universe is one

of the most arguably exciting movies to come along in years...

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

I don’t usually like to review a movie through the prism of its budget, but, after

spending a reported $200 million, shouldn’t this one be more of a wow?

Bridesmaids

Thanks to Kristin Wiig, her writing partner Annie Mumolo, Judd Apatow and Paul Fieg,

we’ve got a dandy femme-centric, outrageously funny and downright smart comedy

that nails one of the most emotionally wrought feminine rites of passage...

Everything Must Go

This poignant indie has a lot going for it. Not only is there a finely wrought slice-of-life lesson here,

but there’s also a wonderful cast playing it out, lead by a surprisingly wonderful Will Ferrell...

Opening in Wide Release

Man On A Ledge

One For The Money

In Selected Theaters

Albert Nobbs

Declaration of War

The Wicker Tree

Also in Theaters

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Haywire

Red Tails

Underworld Awakening

Beauty and the Beast 3D

Contraband

The Devil Inside

The Darkest Hour

The Adventures of Tintin

We Bought a Zoo

The Darkest Hour

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

New Year's Eve

The Sitter

My Week With Marilyn

Arthur Christmas

Hugo

The Muppets

Happy Feet Two

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

Immortals

Jack and Jill

 

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