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Eagle Eye acts under the assumption that if a film gooses us with enough explosions and car chases, we won’t notice how proposterous it is.
It assumes wrong.
Here’s the premise: The same day that our n’er do well hero Jerry (Shia LeBeouf) buries his seemingly perfect twin brother, he comes home to find that his [...]

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Nights in Rodanthe is a movie you can take your mom to—and indeed I did just that.
She felt exactly the same way I did—that the movie wasn’t anyone’s idea of “good” but that it was its own brand of cinematic comfort food.
Two old pros Diane Lane and Richard Gere play Adrienne and Paul. She’s [...]

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Having seen Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna, I now want to read the book. No, not because I loved the movie so much, I want the experience to linger, but because I feel like the book might fill in the gaps—in intent, tone, and character development.
Look, it’s safe to say that not all [...]

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It’s Sixth Sense, the comedy! In Ghost Town, Ricky Gervais plays Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic dentist who dies for 7 minutes during a routine medical procedure (okay, a colonoscopy) and, when he awakens, can see dead people. Poor Pincus has a hard enough time with the living—now he has to contend with the [...]

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Lakeview Terrace is the kind of movie that titillates you with a good premise, then sort of meanders around without actually going anywhere, and then ends in a burst of jarring melodrama.
Insert your own bad-sex joke here.
Too bad. Because all the elements are in place. Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington play Chris and Lisa, [...]

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Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro don’t  just make movies anymore. They make Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro movies. They’re always riffing off their past work and their iconic status.
I just checked out their imdb pages. The last real performance Al Pacino gave was in 2002’s Insomnia. For DeNiro, it goes even further back—to 1995’s [...]

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One can only imagine that the producers of The Women were dancing for joy when Sex and the City became the surprise hit of the early summer. “Hey, that movie is about a group of 40something gal pals and so is ours,” they must’ve thought. “We can’t miss!”
So let me make this perfectly clear: [...]

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You could say that Burn After Reading is a spy caper where everything is at it seems to be. You keep waiting for the big reveal, the moment when you find out that at least one of the bumbling, low IQ schemers is not all they appear to be.
But no.
Brad Pitt—in a hilariously goofy [...]