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  • May 2008

    • Great Sex for Series Fans

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  May 30, 08 9:34 AM CDT

      Great Sex for Series Fans

      (Newser) - Sex and the City: The Movie will probably delight die-hard fans but disappoint others, critics say. “I am not the person to review this movie,” admits Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times—not a fan — who writes that he counted only “one line of truly witty dialogue.” Nevertheless, “this is probably the exact Sex and the City film that fans of the TV series are lusting for.” More »

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      film  • movie review  • Sex and the City  • Sarah Jessica Parker  • Kim Cattrall  • Cynthia Nixon  • Kristin Davis

    • Cannes Agrees: Che Is ... Long

      New York Times  |  May 23, 08 12:30 PM CDT

      Cannes Agrees: Che Is ... Long

      (Newser) - Steven Soderbergh’s much-anticipated Che Guevara biopic debuted last night at Cannes, and critics agree on at least two points: It was really, really long, and American audiences might never get to see it. A tough sell to distributors, the 4½-hour Che focuses almost entirely on military procedure, with mirror halves depicting first the successful Cuban revolution, then the failed Bolivian one. More »

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      film  • movie review  • Cannes Film Festival  • Che Guevara  • Benicio Del Toro  • Steven Soderbergh

    • Indy's Still Kicking Butt in Crystal Skull

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 18, 08 6:52 PM CDT

      Indy's Still Kicking Butt in Crystal Skull

      (Newser) - Who you calling old? It may be 19 years since Indiana Jones last donned a fedora, but Harrison Ford amply kicks Russian butt in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kenneth Turan writes in the Los Angeles Times . The flick, opening in the US on Thursday, premiered today at Cannes to audiences cheering at its opening credits. More »

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      movie review  • Steven Spielberg  • Cannes Film Festival  • Cate Blanchett  • Harrison Ford  • George Lucas  • Shia LaBeouf

    • Waltz Explodes at Cannes

      New York Times  |  May 16, 08 2:10 PM CDT

      Waltz Explodes at Cannes

      (Newser) - Now that's more like it. After a typically lousy opening—allegorical disaster Blindness —the Cannes Film Festival shook things up yesterday with Waltz with Bashir , a ferocious animated documentary from Israel recounting the 1982 massacre at Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. It’s “stunning,” writes Manhola Dargis in the New York Times , “at once a furious act of conscience and a lament.” More »

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      film  • movie review  • documentary  • Cannes Film Festival  • animation

    • Applause for Reprise

      Metacritic  |  May 16, 08 11:54 AM CDT

      Applause for Reprise

      (Newser) - Joachim Trier’s debut film, the honest and amusing dramedy Reprise , is wowing critics. The film, which tells the story of a pair of young aspiring writers, “opens like a portrait of the artist as a young man (times two) and, with stealth and wit, metamorphoses into something wide and deep and funny,” writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times . More »

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      film  • movie review  • Norway

    • Narnia Still Casts a Spell

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  May 16, 08 8:59 AM CDT

      Narnia Still Casts a Spell

      (Newser) - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian returns to the fantasyland 1,300 years after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , and all is not well in the kingdom. The "darker, more conventional, and more crisply made" follow-up features "more clashing swords than all the Robin Hood movies put together," Todd McCarthy writes in Variety.   More »

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      movie  • movie review  • fantasy  • Tilda Swinton

    • Redbelt Gets a No-Decision

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  May 9, 08 5:44 PM CDT

      Redbelt Gets a No-Decision

      (Newser) - Redbelt can’t quite score a knockout with critics. While many find much to admire in David Mamet’s fight movie, most also concede it’s a flawed affair, and some outright disliked it. In the New York Times , Manohla Dargis described it as “a satisfying, unexpectedly involving B-movie,” that sadly “never marshals its estimable parts, its exciting fight sequences and juicy side characters into a transcendent whole.” More »

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      movie  • movie review  • reviews

    • Speed Racer Is a Slog

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  May 9, 08 11:33 AM CDT

      Speed Racer Is a Slog

      (Newser) - The Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer is a flashy ride that would be great for kids—if it weren’t “like C-SPAN set in an arcade,” writes Carina Chocano in the Los Angeles Times . Endless, aimless dialog, she says, dominates the “juvenile and hermetic” pastiche about a Grand Prix driver avenging his brother's death in a futuristic world that looks like the inside of a pinball machine.  More »

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      film  • movie review  • Speed Racer  • Emile Hirsch  • Christina Ricci

    • This Vegas Is a Bad Bet

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  May 9, 08 9:13 AM CDT

      This Vegas Is a Bad Bet

      (Newser) - The new romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas probably should have stayed in Vegas, most critics think—or "in Hollywood, where such lamebrained ideas are hatched," writes Bill Goodykoontz in the Arizona Republic . Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher star as a couple who get hitched after a drunken night out and are then ordered to stay together by a judge. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • Cameron Diaz  • romantic comedy  • Ashton Kutcher

    • Iron Man Solid Gold

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  May 1, 08 5:30 PM CDT

      Iron Man Solid Gold

      (Newser) - Iron Man rockets into theaters tomorrow, and it’s so good it “practically dares the competition to measure up,” Peter Travers writes in Rolling Stone . Critics are nearly unanimous in praising the latest superhero flick, admiring its “raw vitality” and “pitch-perfect casting.” Robert Downey Jr., in particular, “brings so much creative juice to the party that Iron Man achieves instant liftoff.” More »

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      film  • movie review  • movies  • Robert Downey Jr.  • Marvel Comics  • superhero  • John Favreau

  • April 2008

    • Few Surprises in Deception

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Apr 25, 08 1:04 PM CDT

      Few Surprises in Deception

      (Newser) - Deception is a twist-filled thriller, but critics say the cloak of deceit will be paper-thin to anybody familiar with the genre. Ewan McGregor stars as a dull accountant whose life gets spicier after an attorney, played by Hugh Jackman, introduces him to a secret sex club. Soon after, the thriller cliches roll out, and "it's genre time," writes Desson Thompson in the Washington Post. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • Michelle Williams  • thriller  • Ewan McGregor

    • Harold and Kumar Slacks Off

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Apr 25, 08 10:42 AM CDT

      Harold and Kumar Slacks Off

      (Newser) - Sometimes it's hard not to laugh at the slacker/stoner comedy Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay , writes James Berardinelli in ReelViews. At other times, it's hard not to cringe at the film, a sequel to Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle . That's because the humor in Escape , about the anti-heroes being mistaken for terrorists, "is uneven in the extreme," Berardinelli writes.  More »

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      movie review  • comedy  • guy movies  • Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay  • Kal Penn  • John Cho

    • Baby Mama No Bundle of Joy

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Apr 25, 08 7:50 AM CDT

      Baby Mama No Bundle of Joy

      (Newser) - Critics don't seem thrilled about the arrival of Baby Mama , which tells the story of an overachieving, infertile career woman (Tina Fey) who hires a rough-around-the-edges high school dropout (Amy Poehler) to bear her a child. The movie's not "laugh-out-loud funny," writes Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post . "It's more quiet-chuckle funny, which is fine." More »

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      movie  • movie review  • Tina Fey  • Amy Poehler  • chick flicks

    • Sarah Marshall Is Memorable

      Metacritic  |  Apr 18, 08 9:40 AM CDT

      Sarah Marshall Is Memorable

      (Newser) - Forgetting Sarah Marshall is another raunchy romantic comedy from Judd Apatow's repertory company, with an important difference: star/screenwriter Jason Segel. His performance as a clueless spurned boyfriend is "awkward and embarrassing," yet "sweet" and "disarming," writes Scott Tobias of The Onion A.V. Club. Segel contributes "a laugh-a-minute, Flavor Flav-approved screenplay," writes James Verniere of the Boston Herald. More »

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      movie review  • Judd Apatow  • guy movies  • romantic comedy  • romantic moments

    • People Not Smart Enough

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Apr 11, 08 1:45 PM CDT

      People Not Smart Enough

      (Newser) - Critics like the big-name actors in family serio-comedy Smart People —especially Dennis Quaid, who stars as a cranky professor with much to learn about people—but think they might have been smarter to choose a different script. Screenwriter Mark Jude Poirier "is aiming for Scrabulous dialogue but his movie is barely of Boggle quality," Carrie Rickey writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer . More »

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      movie  • film  • movie review  • Sarah Jessica Parker  • independent film  • Dennis Quaid  • Ellen Page

    • Film Critics Fading in Cyber-Culture

      Variety  |  Apr 5, 08 7:54 PM CDT

      Film Critics Fading in Cyber-Culture

      (Newser) - Gone are the days when film critics swayed the culture and sparked serious debate, Anne Thompson laments in Variety . None of her college film students can name a critic besides Roger Ebert, though all are intense cinematic aficionados. Instead, most turn to review roundup sites, or “get their movie info straight from the studio marketing departments.” More »

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      Internet  • film  • Hollywood  • movie review  • Roger Ebert  • online review

    • Nim's Island a Little Too Busy

      Metacritic  |  Apr 4, 08 2:34 PM CDT

      Nim's Island a Little Too Busy

      (Newser) - The spectacular scenery in Nim's Island impressed the critics, as did the film's focus on the pluck and intelligence of its young heroine (Abigail Breslin). Multiple storylines, however —about Nim's life in a Pacific paradise, her lost-at-sea father, and her relationship with an agoraphobic writer (Jodie Foster)—end up "diluting its assets," writes Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer .  More »

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      movie  • movie review  • Jodie Foster  • Abigail Breslin

    • No Juice in My Blueberry Nights

      Metacritic  |  Apr 4, 08 11:01 AM CDT

      No Juice in My Blueberry Nights

      (Newser) - As the lead in My Blueberry Nights , Grammy-winning jazz-pop chanteuse Norah Jones doesn't exactly dazzle. Her performance as a waitress, who ditches New York City for the open road after being ditched by her boyfriend, is "agreeable but bland," writes Todd McCarthy of Variety and "oddly behind the beat," observes Michelle Orange of the Village Voice .  More »

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      movie review  • independent film  • Jude Law  • Natalie Portman  • art-house movies

    • Leatherheads Fumbles

      Metacritic  |  Apr 4, 08 8:16 AM CDT

      Leatherheads Fumbles

      (Newser) - Critics seem to want to like Leatherheads , a screwball comedy about pro football's early days, directed by and starring George Clooney. The Roaring '20s costumes, sets and music are terrific, notes Kirk Honeycutt of the Hollywood Reporter . Clooney, as an aging player/team owner, and his leading lady, Renée Zellweger, as a spitfire newspaper reporter, "play off each other nicely," writes the Philadelphia Inquirer 's Steven Rea. More »

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      movie review  • George Clooney  • romantic comedy  • Renee Zellweger  • sports comedy  • John Krasinski

    • Ebert Ready to Review Again

      Editor & Publisher  |  Apr 1, 08 9:07 PM CDT

      Ebert Ready to Review Again

      (Newser) - Roger Ebert—beset by a series of serious health ailments in recent years—will soon resume reviewing films, he wrote in a letter to Chicago Sun-Times readers. The critic was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002; since then he’s undergone several surgeries, including a tracheotomy that cost him his voice, Editor and Publisher reports. But he’ll put pen to paper once again, perhaps as early as this month. More »

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      film  • movie review  • Roger Ebert  • critic

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