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Who's Better, Man Or Woman?

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 01.25.2012 | Entertainment

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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Packaged as a slick spy film, Haywire's been mildly poo-pooed by some critics but there's another way to see it: as a significant take on commerce and the tensions between men and women, and on a continuum with an earlier work, The Girlfriend Experience.

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ReThink Review: Haywire -- Post-Feminasskicking!

Jonathan Kim | Posted 01.20.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Steven Soderbergh, Mma, Gina Carano, Haywire, Michael Angarano, Rethink Reviews, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Mixed Martial Arts, Jonathan Kim, Michael Douglas, Video, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

With Soderbergh's Ocean's 11 heist series over, the director is clearly looking for another genre franchise to do for fun between his more challenging and experimental pieces. Haywire fits that description.

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Movie Review: Red Tails

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.20.2012 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

Despite what no doubt were state-of-the-art visual effects thanks to the involvement of LucasFilm, Red Tails is further proof that visual tricks and flashily edited action sequences aren't enough to make a movie interesting.

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WATCH: 'Miss Bala' Gives Tense Look At Border Violence

AP | By CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 01.19.2012 | Latino Voices

Read More: Movie Reviews, Movie Review, The Academy Awards, Video, Pageant Queen, Cultura, Academy Awards, Gerardo Naranjo, Miss Bala, Stephanie Sigman, Mexican, Foreign-Language Film, Beauty Pageants, Latino Voices News

-- Gerardo Naranjo may have made the least-glamorous movie ever about a pageant queen with "Miss Bala." And that's what makes it so beautiful. With ...

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ReThink Review: Young Adult -- The Return of the (Prom) Queen

Jonathan Kim | Posted 01.19.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Diablo Cody, Young Adult, Bullying, Jason Reitman, Patton Oswalt, Rethink Reviews, Charlize Theron, Jonathan Kim, Video, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

Young Adult is clearly set up as award bait for Charlize Theron, who gets the chance to be unlikable in almost every way.

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ReThink Review: Pina -- Maybe the Best 3D Movie So Far (And It's a Documentary)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 01.12.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Wim Wenders, Pina, Dance Theater, Dance, Pina Bausch, 3d, 3d Movies, Dance Documentaries, Pina Movie Review, Documentaries, Video, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

I've seen the first spectacular 3D film that absolutely must be seen in 3D. And most amazingly, this film is a documentary about a German choreographer whom I'd never heard of. That film is Pina.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Is No Easy Watch

Chris Krapek | Posted 01.12.2012 | Chicago

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Chris Krapek

Absorbing and fully understanding this movie is work. You must give your full and undivided attention to process every minute detail -- it could be a clue! Better think twice before that large popcorn and soda.

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Movie Review: Joyful Noise

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.12.2012 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

Joyful Noise is a movie with big, rousing soul-gospel songs that take your mind off how mediocre -- or worse -- the rest of the movie is.

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Top Ten Movies of 2011

Farihah Zaman | Posted 01.11.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Movies, A Screaming Man, Slidepollajax, The Future, Take Shelter, Extraordinary Stories, Trollhunter, Film, Movie Reviews, Pina, Tree of Life, Top Ten Movies List, Top Ten Movies, Best Movies 2011, Moviefone Canada, Entertainment News
Farihah Zaman

2011 was the rare and beautiful year that was so packed with surprising and innovative films, it was seriously difficult to boil it down to just ten.

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Movie Review: Beauty and the Beast 3D

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.11.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Walt Disney, Academy Awards, Be Our Guest, Beauty and the Beast 3D, Movies, Movie Reviews, Beauty and the Beast 3D Movie Review, Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, 3d, Lady and the Tramp, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

While I'm happy that kids will get the chance to see this wonderful film on a big screen, it comes from this crassly commercial ploy: the 3D conversion.

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The Artist, the Pinnacle of the Movie Maker's Art

Warren Adler | Posted 01.10.2012 | Entertainment

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Warren Adler

Something stunningly clever is at work in the minds of the French filmmakers who have created this exquisite original.

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The 5 Best Indie Films Of THe Month

Leonard Maltin | Posted 01.06.2012 | Arts

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Leonard Maltin

By Leonard Maltin Traditionally, January releases are nothing to shout about, since most moviegoers are still busy catching up with the Big Guns of ...

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Who Wrote the Meanest Review of 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'?

Posted 01.05.2012 | Home

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"Feel free to write what you want, as I don't especially care," 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' producer Scott Rudin wrote in an email to New Yo...

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A Smorgasbord of Kinky Sex

Warren Adler | Posted 01.09.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Movies, Mikael Blomkvist, Rooney Mara, Entertainment News
Warren Adler

Having read all three of Stieg Larsson's novel trilogy featuring his super heroine Lisbeth Salander, and having seen all three of the Swedish movies adapted from those books as well as the American version, I have arrived at one conclusion: the Swedes win.

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Movie Review: Pariah

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.29.2011 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

This year has produced two films that explore minority attitudes toward sexuality: Rashaad Ernesto Green's Gun Hill Road, and now Dee Rees' Pariah, which explores the life of one young black woman whose parents are in deep denial about the fact that she's a lesbian.

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Movie Review: A Separation

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.28.2011 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

Family dynamics make for potent drama -- and few films this year have used that idea to better effect than Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, which made my 10-best list for 2011.

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Movie Review: War Horse

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.26.2011 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

Based on the popular children's book that inspired the Tony-winning Broadway production, War Horse is exactly what it advertises itself to be: a schmaltzy tale of a boy and his horse, set against the backdrop of British poverty and World War I.

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Which Movie Should You See Today?

Posted 12.25.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Christmas Day Movies, Movie Listings, Steven Spielberg, We Bought a Zoo, Hugo, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Movie Reviews, Cameron Crowe, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, War Horse, Movies, Slidepollajax, Entertainment News

Whether you've been unwrapping gifts from beneath the tree or just enjoying a normal mid-winter Sunday morning, you're probably thinking about the nex...

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Movie Review: We Bought a Zoo

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.24.2011 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

We Bought a Zoo is one of what is becoming a crowded seasonal field of movies with something to appeal to each of several generations.

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Zaki's Review: Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol

Zaki Hasan | Posted 12.22.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible IV Ghost Protocol, JJ Abrams, Brad Bird, Paula Patton, Mission Impossible, Mission Impossible 4, Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Jeremy Renner, Movies, Entertainment News
Zaki Hasan

MI: Ghost Protocol is fun in the right places, funny in the right places, and the skillful dispatching of returned and recruited personnel, onscreen and off, points the way to several more entries in this series before it ever need worry about self-destructing.

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Movie review: In the Land of Blood and Honey

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.22.2011 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

You would think that, after World War II, Europe had seen all of the genocide it could stomach for a century or so. But, no, here came the Serbs in th...

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Movie review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.22.2011 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

I keep want to referring to Stephen Daldry's film of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as, instead, ..& Incredibly Cute. That...

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Zaki's Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Zaki Hasan | Posted 12.21.2011 | Entertainment

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Zaki Hasan

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows doesn't go nearly as deep as I would have liked, but is a mostly-diverting concoction that, thankfully isn't as broad as it could very well have ended up.

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Movie review: The Adventures of Tintin

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.21.2011 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

Herge's Tintin comics have been huge in France since they were first published in 1929, but have never quite translated to American popularity. In the...

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Angelina Jolie's Ambitious In The Land Of Blood And Honey Is The Very Definition Of A Noble Failure

Scott Mendelson | Posted 12.21.2011 | Entertainment

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Scott Mendelson

Despite the film's fine intentions and adult treatment of adult subject matter, In the Land of Blood and Honey doesn't quite work as a compelling piece of drama.

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