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Strong cast carries ‘Brothers’

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Brothers is a movie...

Can you see it now?

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I bet the person in charge of marketing Colossal named the ulcer they developed “Nacho.” Writer/director Nacho Vigalondo’s latest is nigh-impossible to categorize and misleading...

A contraption, but it works

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Call it strangeness on a train. The highly gimmicky, very entertaining new thriller Source Code takes place mostly on a passenger car, part of the fictional Chicago Commuter Rail line, speeding toward the Loop carrying a bomb planted by an unknown terrorist. Our ...

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ABANDONED...

Poised for monster success

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 Demons of mediocrity, be gone! Here we have a shrewd sequel a touch better than the original...

Mutant fight club

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Those who only know comic books through their (somehow) still-increasingly popular cinematic adaptations don’t know the dirty secret about the source material: Most story...

Not this again

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Disney’s effort to turn Kristen Bell into America’s Sweetheart reaches its tipping point with You Again, a flat romantic comedy that packages her in a funny setup and surrounds her with funny people...

‘Leap Year’ fits romantic comedy mold

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If chemistry were all, then the sparks Amy Adams and Matthew Goode set off would be enough in "Leap Year," a romantic comedy in which those sparks never quite ignite...

Who needs a swan song?

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Golden Era Hollywood screenwriter Frank S. Nugent once described story as a disturbance of the status quo: “Something happens to upset it; the disturbance...

Trial and terror

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You only hear about a psychological experiment if it goes really, really well or really, really bad. Guess how a simulation of prison using 20-something college students as both guards and inmates went? Writer Tim Talbott’s script strays little from a grand ...

Sensationalism, not drama

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One of the great mysteries of filmgoing relates to a question the medium has posed since its infancy: When is “too much” just right...

IFS unlocks the artistry of Wim Wenders

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Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man abroad and at home. Sing to me his story as a wanderer and a traveler,...