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Movie Reviews

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Tuesday Movie Blog

Rent It: The Last Station (R, 2009). Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer shine in this thoughtful, if at times reticent, look at Tolstoy’s final days. […]

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Friday Movie Blog: Toy Story 3

I don’t think I deserve to be called a heartless bastard by my friends. So what if I didn’t cry during The Notebook? (She remembered […]

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Tuesday Movie Blog

Rent It: The Goonies (PG, 1985). “Heeeey, you gu-uuuuys!” June 7th marked its 25th anniversary (unbelievably). In celebration, isn’t it time to relive the quest […]

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Friday Movie Blog: Colin Farrell Goes Fishing

iTunes, Netflix by mail, Netflix online, Netflix on Wii, TLA store. I use each of these on a regular basis to maintain my movie-renting fix. […]

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Was Sex and the City 2 Really That Bad?

From what I’ve read online, in the New York Times, and pretty much every review out there, it’s as if the most recent Sex and […]

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Tuesday Movie Blog

Rent It: Shutter Island (R, 2010). Forget the film’s preview with the chalky-skinned, dark-eyed bald woman. This imperfect Scorcese thriller is more moody madness than […]

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Friday Movie Blog: Where’s My Summer Blockbuster?

Perhaps I’m too optimistic. I keep getting excited by previews, and then am completely underwhelmed by the actual movie (Robin Hood). I see the potential […]

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Tuesday Movie Blog: Jake Gyllenhaal’s royal pain

Life’s profound question: was it the chicken or the egg? Did I not like Prince of Persia (PG-13) because of the movie itself, or because […]

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He Said/She Said Reviews of Sex and the City 2

HE SAID Okay, n(y)erd spoiler alert: They are not in Purgatory. While the Smoke Monster—aka Kim Cattrall’s Samantha—is able to get the Manhattanites off the […]

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The Tuesday Movie Blog: Kristin Scott Thomas

Rent It: The Road (R, 2009). A man and his boy struggle and survive in a post-apocalyptic landscape. It’s an unforgiving, brutal and sometimes hard […]

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The Friday Movie Blog

In Shrek Forever After (PG), Shrek has gotten tired of his non-ogre lifestyle. Instead of terrorizing villagers, he’s being terrorized by his children. Instead of […]

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The Tuesday Movie Blog

Rent It: The Messenger (R, 2009). This war movie succeeds because of its limited focus—servicemen tasked with notifying next of kin whose loved one has […]

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The Friday Movie Blog

Sitting in the AMC Cherry Hill theater, watching the preview of Robin Hood (R), I kept thinking one thing: I’m really bored. (Well, that and […]

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The Tuesday Movie Blog

Rent It: Daybreakers (R, 2009). Ethan Hawke stars as a vampire researcher attempting to save mankind (or rather vampirekind) before the blood supply dries up.

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The Friday Movie Blog

I was not supposed to be here. It was 7:05 p.m. and the preview of Iron Man 2 would be starting in 25 minutes at […]