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In the 3-D animated sci-fi flick Monster vs. Aliens, blushing bride Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) gets zapped by an alien meteorite and becomes 50-feet tall, much to the chagrin of her smarmy TV weatherman husband (Paul Rudd). She then gets absconded by the government and placed in a secret laboratory with other “monsters.”
“But [...]

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Sunshine Cleaning—about a couple of down-on-their-luck sisters (Amy Adams and Emily Blunt) who start a crime scene clean-up business—suffers from a bit of whimsy overload. It’s one of those self-consciously quirky indie films—one sister communicates with God through a CB radio; their father (Alan Arkin) engages a series of improbable get-rich-quick schemes—that tend to [...]

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The key to watching Knowing is to simply enjoy the ride. Because if you start to connect the dots—and they’re all there, laid out pretty obviously—you begin to realize that something truly silly and self-important is about to transpire. Anticipating a horrible ending—and Knowing’s is a real doozy—is a surefire way to ruin a [...]

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I Love You, Man follows many of the conventions of the romantic comedy:
We have two people, hopelessly mismatched, yet destined to be together.
They meet cute, fall in love, and break up.
In the end, there’s a wedding where they realize they can not be apart.
Of course, the difference here is that I Love You, Man [...]

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I suppose when you film a nihilistic and profane graphic novel about morally ambiguous super heroes in a dystopian alternate universe, you have an obligation to the novel’s hardcore fans. After all, they’re your guaranteed audience, the only ones invested enough in the material to show up no matter what. But here’s the problem [...]

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American movies spend a lot of time in classrooms, but they usually don’t stick around for long. Most films about teachers—Dead Poet’s Society, Dangerous Minds, even a tough-minded indie gem like Half Nelson—only have the patience to spend a few minutes at a time with the class. There’s some revelatory speech or life-changing confrontation [...]