The Heartbreak Kid represents The Farrelly Brothers returning to their roots. After making a couple of tame and light hearted comedies that were hit or miss with audiences, The Farrellys have gone back to their raunchy ways that were more in line with their first few efforts. But just because the raunch factor is back, […]

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Failing fixer Clooney is great but has to fight for center stage next to supporting actress Tilda Swinton as the ethically maimed corporate attorney.  Add Tom Wilkinson, Sydney Pollock and a dynamite screenplay and we have the thriller of year.
Having scored big as the screenwriter for all three Bourne Identity box office bonanzas, Tony Gilroy […]

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Although its origins can be traced back to the late 1960s, The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising plays like a Harry Potter knockoff. It communicates almost no sense of its own identity; everything seems borrowed and tired.
Alexander Ludwig, a young actor best known for his work in sports sequels (The Sandlot 3, Air Bud 3), […]

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The Game Plan amounts to little more than a vanity production for Dwayne -The Rock- Johnson. It is an amiable enough movie and ought to give warm and fuzzy amusement to kids 8 and older, even as it will appear utterly contrived to adult eyes.
 

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A dizzying adrenaline-pumper with a brain, *The Kingdom* pushes all our buttons about terrorism and fear of the other, but with a torn-from-the-headlines flavor that manages to feel more rational than hysterical. It is a real white-knuckle movie. Film fans 16 and older with strong stomachs for hyper-realistic screen mayhem and an interest in world […]

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They will not land an Oscar nomination come next winter. But the folks who did the makeup for -Resident Evil: Extinction- ought to get their due.
Not for the generic zombies, the undead in their gory, bug-eyed glory, often dressed in matching mechanics jumpsuits. But for the ladies.
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The second directorial effort of Peter Berg, if unintentionally, is one of the most provocatively political movies of the year. An aesthetically entrancing actioner on the outside, this tightly-wound thriller packs just about as much punch as any popcorn flick you will see in 2007.

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Oh, how I love movies where Tommy Lee Jones is looking for someone. I doesn’t have to be a criminal, although that is preferred. There’s just nobody who makes a procedural pursuit more compelling. In the Valley of Elah is, at its best, Tommy Lee Jones looking for someone.
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When you watch The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, you have got to appreciate what Kevin Costner could do with three hours. It’s an endurance test, not god awful but just not worth spending so much time on.

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– You, with scripts of badminton drama, kickball glory, and tiddlywinks tragedy: Hurry to Hollywood.
From 2004’s Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story to this year’s Blades of Glory, comedies of unlikely sports are being churned out. But Balls of Fury, the new pingpong romp, may signify the twilight of the trend.

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Fans of Rowan Atkinson can breathe a long sigh of relief - or, more fitting, a long series of angular full-body twitches punctuated by deep guttural snorts - because Mr. Bean’s Holiday is as much a genial oddity as its star. And that’s saying something.

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The Nanny Diaries is the second feature film by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the writing-directing team who created the memorable grunge-comic epic American Splendor. The comedy has several inspired moments and a genuine flair for the satiric, but overall the film leaves you cold.

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Will Ferrell and his middle-aged Frat Pack posse better watch out. A new generation of comedy talent is poised to hit the big time with the release of “Superbad,” in theaters Friday.

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FEW narratives in American popular culture have proved as durably resonant — or as endlessly adaptable — as “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” the tale of a planetary takeover by extraterrestrial seed pods that replicate and replace sleeping humans.

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“Rush Hour 3″ stars Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan are the new Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, a leering loudmouth and a man of grace and talent hitting the road together for a series of comic misadventures in exotic locales.

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