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"Conan O'Brien Can't Stop": Touring as Anger Management
“It’s like a gall stone,” Conan O’Brien says about his fury at the way he was treated when Jay Leno swiped back the Tonight show. “It just has to work its way through my urethra . .. . and then I’ll be through with those fuckers at NBC.” This doc about his post-Tonight live tour charts that painful...
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Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern: Big Bolts of Light, Teeny Imagination
Just when you’re thinking how silly it is for anyone to expect a tiny green eye mask to disguise a superhero’s identity, a woman he has rescued looks adoringly into the Green Lantern’s eyes and says . . . “Hal?!” That recognition offers one of the rare sharp moments in Green Lantern. The film has R...
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Review, "Super 8": Who Is This Movie For?
All the way through J.J. Abrams’ perfectly congenial Super 8, I kept wondering: who is this film for? Child-friendly though it is, it’s obviously not aimed at kids, who expect something less nostalgic than the story of middle-school students in a 70’s suburb riding bikes and making a zombie movie. A...
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"From Britain With Love": Helena Bonham Carter and Other Imports
We’ve seen Helena Bonham-Carter change in a flash from wild, witchy Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films to the Queen Mum in The King’s Speech, to the real-life character who showed up at the Golden Globes with playfully mismatched shoes (it was a fashion statement). She is just as engagin...
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The Hangover II: Maybe What Happened in Bangkok Should Have Stayed In Bangkok?
Bangkok – bigger, sexier, sleazier than Vegas! That’s the transparent thinking behind The Hangover Part II. If you’ve been anywhere near a TV or seen a movie trailer lately, you know that this sequel brings Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis to Thailand for another wedding, letting them...
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Midnight In Paris: Woody Allen's Moveable Feast
Hemingway parodies are easy to find, but only Woody Allen’s Hemingway would consider, “Have you ever shot a charging lion?” to be a great pickup line.
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Keira Knightley's "Last Night" Opens, the Weekend's Best Romance
Like so many megastars, Keira Knightley drops into a little indie now and then, but unlike so many she has chosen well. Last Night is a slight but charming romantic drama about a married couple (Knightley and Sam Worthington) who, during one night apart, are tempted by her dashing French ex-boyfrien...
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Mel Gibson Is Powerful, Haunting in Jodie Foster's Fine Drama "The Beaver"
We know so much about the private lives of public figures that it’s harder than ever for actors to vanish into roles. Does anyone think Mr. and Mrs. Smith would play as well without the real-life Brad/Angelina subtext? So there’s no use pretending here: the Mel Gibson Issue overshadows The Beaver, w...
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Review, Something Borrowed: Ginnfer Goodwin, Kate Hudson Fight Over a Ken Doll
“The Hamptons are like a zombie movie directed by Ralph Lauren.” Enjoy that line, because it’s about the only one that might make you laugh in the irredeemably lame romcom Something Borrowed. From the minute you see Ginnifer Goodwin wearing an unconvincing long brown wig, you have an inkling of just...
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Review: Will Ferrell, Great and Touching in Uneven "Everything Must Go"
By now, we just look at Will Ferrell and get ready to laugh, but not so fast. He gives a performance that most dramatic actors could only dream of - restrained, nuanced, enormously moving – in the uneven yet finally eloquent little indie Everything Must Go.
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