War is Hell
By Matt Forsman
Tropic Thunder is one of the most consistently funny and at times offensive films of the year. Ben Stiller’s latest may not trump Dr. Strangelove, but as far as war comedies go,
Tropic Thunder is pretty close.
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Woody Allen’s Summer of Bittersweet Romance
By Rossiter Drake
Woody Allen’s latest,
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, is a comedy of refreshing depth.
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Yet Another Lackluster Pixar Imitation
By Mel Valentin
Fly Me to the Moon 3D is, like most of its predecessors in the Pixar imitation sweepstakes, short on visual and narrative originality.
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What Has Red Eyes and a Machine Gun?
By Martin Malloy
Pineapple Express is the second film penned by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and, as with anything these guys touch, they have once again struck gold.
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More Like Purgatory…for 90 Minutes
By Mel Valentin
Written, directed, and produced by genre veteran Larry Bishop, Hell Ride is an irony-free throwback to the late 60s-early 70s biker flicks.
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A Mummy Movie Without Mummies
By Mel Valentin
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is, sadly, the worst kind of summer blockbuster.
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He’s Scarier Than He Looks
By Mel Valentin
For
Baghead, the Duplass Brothers decided to combine their mumblecore roots with the horror genre, to surprisingly positive results.
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Mulder & Scully’s (Somewhat) Excellent Adventure
By Rossiter Drake
I Want to Believe, plays like a solid, albeit unexceptional, stand-alone episode broad enough to ensnare the uninitiated.
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Lush Period Melodrama
By Mel Valentin
The second adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic 1945 novel,
Brideshead Revisited is a sumptuous, beautifully shot, capably directed, impeccably acted period drama.
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Dumb and Dumberest
By Rossiter Drake
Step Brothers is cheap, lazy entertainment, inspired, if you can call it that, by the cynical notion that tasteless sex and gratuitous violence is funny.
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Send in the Clown
By Rossiter Drake
Beneath its dazzling surface,
The Dark Knight is a big, brooding meditation on the moral conflict that rages even in the noblest soul.
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