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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009

movie review

 Invictus Does Mandela Justice 

Morgan Freeman is superb in the main role

MOVIE REVIEW

 Lovely Bones Hits and Misses 

Peter Jackson's adaptation meets mixed reviews

MOVIE REVIEW

 Serious Moonlight a Dim Effort 

Filming slain writer's script a fine sentiment, poorly executed

movie review

 Brothers Has Strong 
 Acting, Weak Heart 

Critics wonder: Why did Jim Sheridan need to do this remake?

Movie Review

 Everybody's Fine
 No, Everybody's Sappy 

De Niro the best part about predictable holiday treacle

MOVIE REVIEW

 Up in the Air 'Darkly Hilarious' 

Melancholy downsizing dramedy deftly captures this era

MOVIE REVIEW

 Wright Penn Lifts Pippa Lee 

Strong cast boosts 'highbrow chick flick'

Sneak Peek

 Lovely Bones Is 
 Jackson's Best Yet 

After sneak screening, critic predicts Oscar glory; another pans it

MOVIE REVIEW

 Disney Returns 
 to Form With 
 Princess 

Classic animation charms the critics

Movie Review

 Quiet, Creepy, Absurd, 
 Home Wows Critics 

Acclaimed French film makes US debut

MOVIE REVIEW

 Welles Best Part of  
 Me and Orson Welles
 

Christian McKay eclipses Zac Efron

MOVIE REVIEW

 Put Down Old Dogs 

No new tricks in Travolta-Williams turkey

Movie Review

 Bleak Road Not 
 as Good as Book 

Critics split on adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic epic

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 Bullock Shines in 
 Crowd-Pleasing Blind Side  

Football chick flick lacks suspense, delivers happy ending

Movie Review

 Don't Land On Planet 51 

Laugh-free sci-fi satire mediocre at best

MOVIE REVIEW

 Bad Lieutenant Is 
 Terribly Fantastic 

Cage's unhinged performance dazzles, and Herzog keeps up

Movie Reviews

 New Moon So Bad It's Funny  

Sequel lacks thrills, sense of humor of first 'Twilight'

MOVIE REVIEWs

 Broken Embraces  
 'Gorgeous and 
 Seductive' 

Almodovar's latest mixes noir with melodrama

MOVIE REVIEW

 Look Out, Pixar: 
 Mr. Fox Is Fantastic 

Is it a film for kids? Who cares! gush critics

MOVIE REVIEW

 Pirate Radio Rocks 
 on Good Tunes, Cast 

Playful 60s love/music comedy is more party than plot

MOVIE REVIEW

 2012 Spectacular but Stupid 

End-of-the-world epic is 'disaster porn' at its finest

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 Thirst Is the 'Anti-Twilight

This is a vampire flick for adults

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 Fourth Kind: Not Real, Not Scary

Alien-abduction mock-doc delivers lame premise with laughable framing device

MOVIE REVIEW

 Motion-Capture 
 Christmas Carol 
 Hits Wrong Notes 

Spirit's there, but critics split on wow-factor of evolving tech



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Peace Prize: President Says Piss Off   

15
Dec 11, 09 | 10:51 AM BY Michael Wolff

The president accepted his Peace Prize by arguing for war . It had really seemed like he would need to thread a needle in Oslo, having to graciously to accept an award for bringing peace to the world while he primes a battlefield. He had to mollify or triangulate his right-wing critics who might see any inclinations toward peace, poetic or policy-wise, ritualistic or real, as evidence of his lack of purpose, will, and fiber. At the same time, he had to deal, although perhaps... More »

I’m Glad a Bonus Is Not My Problem

8
Dec 10, 09 | 8:36 AM BY Michael Wolff

If you are the manager of a Wall Street firm, or one of its communications advisers, what you are thinking about right now is this: How... More »

Why Tiger Woods Prefers Blondes

30
Dec 9, 09 | 9:51 AM BY Michael Wolff

Here is the dumbest newspaper article I’ve read in quite a long time. I mean dumb not just in the sense of failing to understand... More »

Amanda Is America

26
Dec 8, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

Not too long ago, Amanda Knox, convicted the other day in Italy of murdering her junior-year-abroad roommate, Meredith Kercher, was... More »

Climate Change: How Come US Newspapers Don’t Like This Issue?

14
Dec 7, 09 | 9:45 AM BY Michael Wolff

My friend Ian Katz, a senior editorial figure at the Guardian newspaper in London, and a prime mover of an initiative to create... More »

Tiger Woods Is Innocent

16
Dec 4, 09 | 8:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

It is good for the media business that Tiger Woods has, apparently, never read a tabloid newspaper or watched a tabloid show. Nobody... More »

Comcast and NBC: Curse of the Moguls Strikes Again

2
Dec 3, 09 | 8:16 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Times business section leads with one of those stories that have been so often written about great media mergers: How did... More »

Obama: Purge the Urge to Surge

6
Dec 2, 09 | 11:33 AM BY Stephen Spain

President Obama seems determined to demonstrate how much, much more ( 30,000 troops and $30 billion a year ) can produce much, much less... More »

The President's War Is to Save His Own Skin

12
Dec 2, 09 | 9:13 AM BY Michael Wolff

It is neither unreasonable nor dishonorable to be as cynical as possible when evaluating the official rationale for going to war—or... More »

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