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Review: Dear John, Like Most Relationships, Ends Badly

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: From sensitive, boring director Lasse Hallstrom (The Shipping News, An Unfinished Life) comes a love story featuring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried as the two most perfect...

Review: Look Out, From Paris with Love Has a Gun!

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: If you were to take From Paris with Love seriously, it'd be easy to be offended by its portrayal of women, minorities, Muslims, Asians, and anyone who isn't a big, loud...

Review: When in Rome—or Anywhere Else—Don't See This Movie

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: This Kristen Bell-Josh Duhamel romcom was mounted with a millions-dollar budget, gorgeous locations in Rome and New York City, and a heavy-duty cast. Yet the filmmakers ended up...

Review: Edge of Darkness Is Mad Mel at His Maddest

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:45:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Five years after last appearing onscreen (as a jokey cameo in Paparazzi), Mad Mel Gibson is back, and as one might expect, he's brought with him a heaping helping of brutal...

Review: Extraordinary Measures Is Extra Ordinary

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:13:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: It's tough to make a compelling movie about enzyme synthesis, even when you have the added attraction of Harrison Ford in full caricature mode. Save for his star power, this...

Review: Legion Easily the Year's Best Movie About Badass Angels and God-Zombies

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:38:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Angels with guns! Wing-fu! God-zombies! When Legion tries to take these kinds of things too seriously, it falters, but mostly it embraces the inner cheese. The Bigger...

Review: The Tooth Fairy Not Painful, but Lacks Bite

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: It smells like The Rock is cooking a warmed-over Game Plan, as Dwayne Johnson plays a second-rate hockey player working night shifts as an actual tooth fairy and managing a...

Review: An Education Nothing But Charming

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Charming twentysomething English actress Carey Mulligan gives a charming, breakthrough performance as Jenny, a teenager in 1960s England who must choose between the stuffiness...

Review: Kung Fu + Jesus + The Road = Book of Eli

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:59:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Remember how, when you were watching The Road, you thought to yourself, "This needs more kung fu and Jesus"? God, and the Hughes brothers, heard your prayers. Denzel...

Review: Move Away from The Spy Next Door

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:55:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Someone must have told Jackie Chan that part of being a Hollywood action star is that you eventually have to do a family movie in which precocious kids make you appear totally...

Review: Leap Year a Blah Rom-Com—Except for How Amy Adams Always Sparkles

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: An uptight East Coaster (Amy Adams) meets a cranky Irish guy in the bonnie countryside and we all get another formulatic rom-com. The only bright spot in this formulaic rom-com...

Review: Daybreakers a Vampire Thriller With Blood and Brains

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:50:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Finally, a vampire pic with bite. The blood flows freely in this futuristic thriller, as the bloodsucking majority hunt and farm the remaining humans for delicious plasma....

Review: Youth in Revolt the Most Ceratastic Michael Cera Movie Ever! (Also, It's Funny)

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:15:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: A floppy young man (Michael Cera) develops an alter ego (an unblinking Michael Cera) to win over a girl, in this flick that's surprisingly funny for something released in...

Review: Avatar is All Kinds of Awesome, But Maybe You Knew That Already

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:35:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Believe the hype. James Cameron's decade-in-the-making sci-fi dream project is an immersive epic unlike any other. Yes, the story's pretty simple, but with so much else...

Review: Big Mystery—Why Isn't Sherlock Holmes a Better Movie?

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are effortlessly charming as a more action-oriented Holmes and Watson than we're used to. They belong in a better movie than the one Guy...

Review: It's Complicated? Sure, if You Care About Some Wine Snob's Perfect Life

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:01:00 GMT

Review in a hurry: Will a lady (Meryl Streep) with three perfect grown kids, a palatial house in Santa Barbara, a fondness for five-star hotels and a schedule loaded with seaside wine parties get...

Review: Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus a Happy Flash of Heath

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:50:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Of course, you're waiting to know if Heath Ledger is any good in his final role—and don't worry, he is. But more importantly, director Terry Gilliam is back in...

Review: Nine? More Like a Six

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:15:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Director Rob Marshall (Chicago) delivers another Broadway musical to the cineplex—but with Nine already an American remake of the classic Federico Fellini film 8 1/2,...

Review: Crazy Heart Not Nearly as Good as Jeff Bridges' Performance

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:38:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: Jeff Bridges gives an effortlessly lovable performance as a burned-out, drunken country legend looking for a comeback in both music and life. The movie as a whole never rings as...

Review: Did You Hear? The Morgans Is for SJP Diehards Only

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Review in a Hurry: A hired killer wants to off a neurotic pair of New York soon-to-be exes, played by Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker. But the movie is already DOA thanks to a draggy plot,...