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A film of unreconciled impulses, Breathing is by turns vaguely sentimental and coolly detached in a manner that's ultimately more off-putting than it is complementary. In one...
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In Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths, a prune-faced, simian-mouthed sexagenarian sits by the road in an old suit and brown-patterned tie, and cradles a white bunny in his...
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The one surefire punch line in Taken 2 is unintended, a bitter laugh. Ex-CIA operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), delivering his trademark crisis-control cell-phone coaching...
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In a neat bit of poaching, Sinister uses a premise borrowed from anti-horror pundits -— the idea that some images can't be unseen once seen, are poison without antidote...
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As Pitch Perfect opens, its lead group of lady nerds, the Bellas, botch their lackluster performance at an a capella championship with neurotic perfectionist Aubrey's (the...
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Alternating between trite over-earnestness and clear-minded observation, Josh Radnor's Liberal Arts hints at both the yearning for adulthood of sensitive college kids and,...
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Here Comes the Boom confronts the crisis in our nation's public schools, and multiplexes, for even an affable, saccharine, rudimentary comedy that looks like top of the class...