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MOVIE REVIEW: THE GREAT GATSBY
It’s great– once it stops. The first frantic 45 minutes of filmmaker Baz (“Moulin Rouge”) Luhrman’s eye-popping, screen swollen, 3D, musical mashup of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s mythic novel brought me to the brink of
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MOVIE REVIEW: IRON MAN 3
The cheap thrills of summer begin with the noisy, hyperactive and superficially entertaining third installment of IRON MAN 3—which pits Robert Downey Junior’s brash industrialist Tony Stark as the man in the can against
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MOVIE REVIEW: OBLIVION
The latest Tom Cruise film OBLIVION in which the superstar once again saves the world is a muted, muddled sci-fi fandango that finds Tom tangling with his identity. There are those who think the
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MOVIE REVIEW: “42″
It’s the only number to be retired by all of baseball and belonged to the tough, multi-talented athlete Jackie Robinson who rose out of poverty in rural Georgia to break baseball’s color barrier when
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MOVIE REVIEW: ADMISSION
I’ve recently experienced the crap shoot that is the college admissions process, though it did not– unfortunately– involve either Tina Fey or Paul Rudd. They would have made it infinitely more entertaining as they
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MOVIE REVIEW: ZERO DARK THIRTY
Osama Bin Laden is dead. The chilling and detailed ZERO DARK THIRTY directed by Kathryn Bigelow (the first woman ever to win an Oscar for Best Director: THE HURT LOCKER) and written by Mark
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MOVIE REVIEW: LES MISERABLES
I have always loved this musical onstage, but was never so miserable as when I sat through all 157 minutes onscreen. LES MISERABLES–despite some exceptional musical performances–dies a torturous death by close-up at the
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MOVIE REVIEW: ARGO
Ben Affleck has done it behind the camera again– directed a first rate thriller! It’s sleeker, sharper, and surer than his previous directorial work– and it’s already being touted as a possible Best Picture
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MOVIE REVIEW: HOPE SPRINGS
HOPE SPRINGS– that movies are still being made (if I may paraphrase our 16th president) of the grownups, for the grownups, and by the grownups… and that they have not perished from the earth.
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MOVIE REVIEW:THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
It’s the movie we’ve been waiting for all summer: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is the stunning culmination of writer/director Christopher Nolan’s BATMAN trilogy. Once again, Christian Bale is perfect as the magnetic and mysterious
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