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 | Review: Son of Rambow Is Much Funnier Than Rambo
Son of Rambow is filled with small surprises and treasures, a veritable bounty of delight. It perfectly captures the innocent, whimsical joys of boyhood, and it does this in the simplest possible way...
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 | Review: Made of Honor Is Made of Failure
Made of Honor is a terrible romantic comedy, and heaven knows I don't go into romantic comedies with high expectations. The best I can usually hope for is a few funny lines, some charming performa...
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 | Review: Baby Mama Is Tina 'n Amy's Show
If we cannot agree that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are two of the funniest women in television, then we have nothing to say to each other. But I know there are people who hate them, who think they ruine...
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 | Review: Harold and Kumar Make One Trip Too Many
While Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay isn’t the worst, most insipid thing I’ve seen this year, it certainly is the most disappointing. I loved the first film. While juvenile, l...
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 | Review: Leatherheads Doesn't Hold Up
Before I went into Leatherheads, I had no doubt I was going to love the movie. After all, I love George Clooney, I love screwball comedies, and I love the era of filmmaking that Clooney -- who, beside...
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 | Superhero Movie — Review
For the past year or so, several studios have been making it a habit of not screening their movies for critics. The Weinstein Company has been one of these studios (with the exception of award-bait mo...
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 | Review: 21 Is a Good Bet
21 is just the type of Friday night movie I enjoy but don't look forward to writing about. It's entertaining and fun, and the crowd I saw it with seemed to dig the hell out of it. Yet, it isn&...
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 | Review: Run Fatboy Run a Worthy Comedic Experience
Never in a million years would have I imagined that what I saw tonight would have sprung from the minds of those that brought it to me. When one thinks of the off-kilter, sometimes very bizarre comedy...
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 | Review: Drillbit Taylor Isn't Very Funny
This is a film that would have been much better off if they'd bothered to throw some jokes in. You know, things that make you go "ha." Something to make you smirk. Anything to relieve th...
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 | Review: Horton Hears A Who! - Loved It!
If you want the short version of my review of Horton Hears a Who!, the latest Dr. Seuss book to be adapted for the big screen, it is as follows: I loved this movie, my kids loved this movie, Mr. Wonde...
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 | Review: Never Back Down Should Never Be Watched
If you combined The Karate Kid with Fight Club, then threw in a dash of The O.C. and You Got Served then beat it with a stick until it was really stupid, you'd have something twice as smart as Nev...
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 | Review: Bank Job Gets the Job Done, '70s-Style
The Bank Job is one of the most generic film titles I've ever heard, and at first the movie lives up to that standard of ordinariness with a well-worn story about a crew of London bank thieves. Bu...
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