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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2009

MOVIE REVIEW

 Serious Moonlight a Dim Effort 

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

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 Brothers Has Strong 
 Acting, Weak Heart 

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

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 Everybody's Fine
 No, Everybody's Sappy 

De Niro the best part about predictable holiday treacle

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 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

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 Disney Returns 
 to Form With 
 Princess 

Classic animation charms the critics

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 Quiet, Creepy, Absurd, 
 Home Wows Critics 

Acclaimed French film makes US debut

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 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

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 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

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 Don't Land On Planet 51 

Laugh-free sci-fi satire mediocre at best

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 Bad Lieutenant Is 
 Terribly Fantastic 

Cage's unhinged performance dazzles, and Herzog keeps up

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 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

MOVIE REVIEW

 Inside The Box
 a Muddled Surprise 

Film is wayward, most critics agree, but for some it's interesting

MOVIE REVIEW

 Precious: Gritty Candor 
 or 'Poverty Porn'? 

Harlem drama brutally honest, some say manipulative



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

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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 one editorial on climate change that a coalition of newspapers around the world publishes today, writes to ask my opinion of “why no major US newspapers would play.” The project has 56 newspapers in 45 countries (representing 20 different languages) publishing an editorial meant to firm up the moral ardor of the nations gathering... More »

Tiger Woods Is Innocent

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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

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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

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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

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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 »

Old Newsmen Never Die…And the White House Party Crashers Weren’t Working Alone

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Dec 1, 09 | 9:39 AM BY Michael Wolff

There is a club in the West 40s in Manhattan which includes among its members many old newsmen who, curiously, have sworn, on pain of expulsion,... More »

Should Google Worry?

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Nov 30, 09 | 9:12 AM BY Michael Wolff

Google is under media attack. Rupert Murdoch is the most outspoken anti-Googlist, but his fulminations are now followed by a new book,... More »

Murdoch and Microsoft: The Mice Are Trying to Roar

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Nov 24, 09 | 10:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Microsoft is a company that Rupert Murdoch understands. When he talks about the technology business or about the Internet or Google, which,... More »

Books Are Bad for You

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Nov 23, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become—and pathetic, designed only to sell... More »

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