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Pop culture, popped

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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is an all-you-can-eat buffet of comedic gluttony, serving humorous dishes to please every palate. Whatever your taste, you can...

A surreal take on a classic

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Tolstoy’s classic novel of love and infidelity, Anna Karenina has been brought to stage and screen many times, often with mediocre results due to its complexity. Pay attention: It’s mid-1800s Russia, and Anna (Keira Knightley) is married to Karenin (Jude Law), a dull...

Loco motives

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I didn’t read The Girl on the Train. Maybe it’s great. Are there werewolves in it? It seems like werewolves would have made the story...

‘Book of Eli’ stylized but silly

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He is a loner, trudging in battered shoes across a...

‘The Fourth Kind’ too clunky

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The Fourth Kind is a...

‘Me and Orson Welles’ a rare tale

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"Me and Orson Welles" is a little velvet sack of...

‘Cop Out’ joins the lineup of buddy cop flicks

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Distilled to its manly essence, the cop-buddy movie...

Unfashionable life at a fashion magazine in ‘September Issue’

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Two years ago may as well be 200 in this economy, a fact that gives the easygoing, entertaining court documentary The September Issue a certain poignancy. It's about the run-up to a late-boom-era capitalistic war, a triumph of advertising and frippery over rational ...

Black humorless

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Low-brow. Just expect it from Gulliver’s Travels. When Gulliver ( Jack Black) first arrives at the kingdom of Lilliput and puts out a raging fire by dropping his shorts and urinating, I was astonished by the audience laughter. This is a film unabashedly aimed at teen...

‘Love Happens’ an unoriginal romantic comedy

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An unoriginal romantic comedy...

‘Sherlock Holmes’ feels elementary

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Dr. Watson and the lads from Scotland Yard load...

Camp Crystal Fake-Out

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What’s funny is that writer Joss Whedon and writer/director Drew Goddard are going to get praised for how original The Cabin in the Woods is...