Jennifer’s Body
"Jennifer's Body" is not scary enough for horror and not knowing enough for commentary on horror. "Hell is a teenage girl," says Needy (Amanda Seyfried of "Mama Mia" and "Big Love"). And she should...
View ArticleDear John
Nicholas Sparks writes the equivalent of comfort food, high-carb, low-nutrition, but sometimes it hits the spot. His stories usually feature relationships that are not just true and deep and loving but...
View ArticleLetters to Juliet
Two bad signs. One is when you spend the entire movie thinking that a couple of Google searches would have made it possible for everyone in the story to save a week's effort and everyone in the...
View ArticleRed Riding Hood
Oh, Grandmother, what a big, bad movie you have. So, apparently what happened here is that for whatever reason director Catherine Hardwicke did not get to make the second and third "Twilight" movies,...
View ArticleIn Time
In the future, according to this film, our currency will not be money but time. Everyone gets 25 years. Then the clock starts ticking down. If you have not earned, begged, borrowed, stolen, or...
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Epic
"Epic" means big -- usually a big story filled with grand adventures. This is a grand adventure, but the story is very small, or at least its characters are. Like "Honey I Shrunk the Kids," "A Bug's...
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
When Seth MacFarlane tops his unprecedented success on television with three animated series ("Family Guy," "The Cleveland Show," "American Dad") and his first feature film was a blockbuster -- the...
View ArticleWhile We’re Young
"While We're Young" opens with an exchange from Ibsen's "The Master Builder" about what happens when the young come knocking at the door. But it might just as well begin with the wry Amish aphorism,...
View ArticleTed 2
"Subtle" is not a word that naturally comes to mind for a movie that features a bong in the shape of male genitalia (which is more powerful -- the longing for weed or the ew-factor of a straight guy...
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