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Adam Sandler for Best Actor? No joke, I think the guy deserves serious consideration for his complex, nuanced, and fearless work in Judd Apatow’s Funny People.
He plays George Simmons, a comedian who rose from small nightclub standup to global success by making the kind of low-brow films where he plays a Merman or a [...]

Just saw the preview for the upcoming G.I. Joe and I was struck by one thing. No, not the epic awfulness of the trailer—I’m a film critic, I don’t pre-judge (ahem). But this: What the hell has happened to Dennis Quaid?
In my day, Dennis Quaid was sex on legs— the randiest, cockiest, most irresistible cad [...]

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The romantic comedy gets deconstructed in the endearingly quirky (500) Days of Summer.
Tom (Joseph Gordon Levitt) is a hopeless romantic who writes greeting cards for a living. Summer (Zooey Deschanel) is the new girl in the office, with whom he is immediately smitten.
Here’s the twist: We are told, right off the bat, that things [...]

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Until now, there hasn’t been a great film about the ongoing war in Iraq. The contenders have either been too mawkish (Grace is Gone), too depressing (In the Valley of Elah), or too polemical (Stop-Loss).
But Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is more than just the first great film about Gulf II. It deserves to [...]

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Over the years, the Harry Potter series has attracted some of Great Britian’s greatest acting talent. Imelda Staunton, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Thewlis, Kenneth Branaugh, and Gary Oldman have all appeared in the films. And Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, and Michael Gambon (who replaced the late Richard Harris) are series [...]

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Everyone who reads Larry Doyle’s rollicking coming of age novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper, thinks the same thing: This would make a great movie!
Be careful what you wish for.
Turns out, the cinematic quality of the book—its laugh-out-loud funny scenes and action that evokes a John Hughes movie in written form—doesn’t translate to actual [...]

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I’ve always said that it you’re going to be outrageous and offensive, at least be funny. Humor often is the end that justifies the means, and Sacha Baron Cohen is one funny dude. His is humor in extremis—taking an already absurd scenario to its most cringe-inducing, [...]

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Bank robber John Dillinger was so good at what he did, no law man could stop him. So the law got better.
The engrossing Public Enemies, directed by crime auteur Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice, et al), is about the showdown between the cocky, smooth-talking, slightly jaded Dillinger (a captivating Johnny Depp) and the up-and-coming [...]