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Kevin Costner’s new movie is about a presidential election that literally comes down to one man, one vote. The vote belongs to Bud Johnson, an alcoholic egg inspector from New Mexico who finds himself the focus of the eyes of the world. Costner plays him as a hungover loser who
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Kevin Costner’s new movie is about a presidential election that literally comes down to one man, one vote. The vote belongs to Bud Johnson, an alcoholic egg inspector from New Mexico who finds himself the focus of the eyes of the world. Costner plays him as a hungover loser who
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Moviegoers who knowingly buy a ticket for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor are going to get exactly what they expect: There is a mummy, a tomb, a dragon and an emperor. And the movie about them is all that it could be. If you think The Mummy: Tomb
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Moviegoers who knowingly buy a ticket for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor are going to get exactly what they expect: There is a mummy, a tomb, a dragon and an emperor. And the movie about them is all that it could be. If you think The Mummy: Tomb
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The Wackness, which is set in 1994, contains so many drugs it could have been made in the 1970s, along with Panic in Needle Park and other landmarks of the psychotropic generation. The big difference is that drugs have progressed in the years between from cutting-edge material to background music.
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The Wackness, which is set in 1994, contains so many drugs it could have been made in the 1970s, along with Panic in Needle Park and other landmarks of the psychotropic generation. The big difference is that drugs have progressed in the years between from cutting-edge material to background music.
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"The X-Files: I Want to Believe" arrives billed as a "stand-alone" film that requires no familiarity with the famous television series. So it is, leaving us to piece together the plot on our own. And when I say "piece together," trust me, that's exactly what I mean. In an
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"The X-Files: I Want to Believe" arrives billed as a "stand-alone" film that requires no familiarity with the famous television series. So it is, leaving us to piece together the plot on our own. And when I say "piece together," trust me, that's exactly what I mean. In an
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When did comedies get so mean? Step Brothers has a premise that might have produced a good time at the movies, but when I left I felt a little unclean. The plot: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly play Brennan and Dale, two never-employed 40ish sons who still live at
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When did comedies get so mean? Step Brothers has a premise that might have produced a good time at the movies, but when I left I felt a little unclean. The plot: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly play Brennan and Dale, two never-employed 40ish sons who still live at
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I saw the stage version of Mamma Mia! in London, where for all I know it is now entering the second century of its run, and I was underwhelmed. The film version has the advantage of possessing Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth and Julie Walters — but
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I saw the stage version of Mamma Mia! in London, where for all I know it is now entering the second century of its run, and I was underwhelmed. The film version has the advantage of possessing Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth and Julie Walters — but
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Batman isn’t a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about. That’s because of the performances, because of the direction, because of the writing, and because of the
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Batman isn’t a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about. That’s because of the performances, because of the direction, because of the writing, and because of the
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Roman de Gare is French for what we call an “airport novel,” but it’s virtually the opposite. In a good airport novel, the plot plows you through safety-belt demonstrations, $5 “snacks” and lists of connecting flights. In Roman de Gare, the plot has a way of braking to a halt
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Roman de Gare is French for what we call an “airport novel,” but it’s virtually the opposite. In a good airport novel, the plot plows you through safety-belt demonstrations, $5 “snacks” and lists of connecting flights. In Roman de Gare, the plot has a way of braking to a halt
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There is a part of me that will always have affection for a movie like Journey to the Center of the Earth. It is a small part and steadily shrinking, but once I put on the 3-D glasses and settled in my seat, it started perking up. This is a
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There is a part of me that will always have affection for a movie like Journey to the Center of the Earth. It is a small part and steadily shrinking, but once I put on the 3-D glasses and settled in my seat, it started perking up. This is a
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Imagine the forges of hell crossed with the extraterrestrial saloon on Tatooine and you have a notion of Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army. In every way the equal of his original Hellboy (2004), although perhaps a little noisier, it’s another celebration of his love for bizarre fantasy
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Imagine the forges of hell crossed with the extraterrestrial saloon on Tatooine and you have a notion of Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army. In every way the equal of his original Hellboy (2004), although perhaps a little noisier, it’s another celebration of his love for bizarre fantasy
