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This time, “Harold & Kumar” seek freedom, not burgers

'Guantanamo Bay' is just as funny as 'White Castle,' with a targeted

If you loved the reefer-fueled hijinks of “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” (2004), are you preordained to laugh yourself stupid when the duo goes waaaay down south in "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"? Does Willie Nelson...

“Baby Mama” is not “Knocked Up”

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler give birth to a reliably funny, lightweight buddy

As Kate Holbrook, the unfashionably infertile heroine of "Baby Mama," Tina Fey embodies the reproductive flip-side of "Juno," "Knocked Up," "Waitress," et al. Though she wants a baby in the worst way, Kate is facing the cold, hard truth of being a would-be...

“Deception” is cold and emotionally vacant

'Erotic thriller' fails to deliver with indifferent acting by Ewan

Beware, filmmaker, the dread "erotic thriller." It has stunted greatness. It has smashed careers. And it's given audiences little besides "Fatal Attraction" and an inexhaustible reservoir of late-night Cinemax alone-time specials. Alas, this admonition...

Soft drumbeat of advocacy

Heartfelt “The Visitor” envisions immigration as a fact of interpersonal

Like a shrewd salesman who keeps his suitcase to the side, Thomas McCarthy's “The Visitor” doesn't immediately announce itself as a movie about immigration policy. Instead, this enormously affecting, thought-provoking drama does it the smart...

“21” needs to know when to hold 'em

The fictionalized movie adaptation of a tell-all book on card counting is hokey and too long.

Far less fascinating as an over-packaged, over-plotted thriller than it was as a nonfiction book, 21 is the sort of movie that inspires the question, "Why didn't they just make it into a documentary?" Certainly, the story of six MIT blackjack geeks who...

“Stop-Loss”: A meandering and uncertain drama

Director Kimberly Peirce's film attempts to represent the modern American fighting man.

As a battle-tested Iraq war hero who cuts and runs when Uncle Sam invites him back for more, Ryan Phillippe embodies the progressive protest-politics of Kimberly Peirce's Stop Loss. It's anti-war but pro-soldier; love the player, hate the game. Unfortunately,...

“The Hammer” hits the comedy nail on the head

Adam Carolla bounces successfully to the big screen in this easy-going sports comedy.

Adam Carolla has always been a bob-and-weave kind of comic – whining about this, riffing on that, finding humor in the details. Unlike funnymen who honed their sweet science in stand-up comedy clubs, the former "Man Show" host isn't one to rely...

“Under the Same Moon” sweet but forgettable

Director Patricia Riggen's debut feature is as charming as a film about undocumented migrants can be.

Under the Same Moon  is a sweet but forgettable togetherness yarn, poised ever-so-lightly on the knife edge of America's immigration debate. That the movie manages not to bloody itself speaks both to its twinkle-toed charm and meager dramatic weight.To...

“Drillbit Taylor” isn't as sharp-witted as predecessors

Producer Judd Apatow's latest comedy has familiar cast and attitude, but not the same level of funny.

From the “Weird Science” tradition of geek-outsourcing comes “Drillbit Taylor,” the latest – and, arguably, least funny – of the extended family of Judd Apatow-produced comedies. It's not “Superbad.” Just...

“Funny Games”: The feel-bad movie of the year

Michael Haneke's 1997 German-language thriller is remade with Tim Roth and

One could call Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" the "feel-bad movie of the year" and not be incorrect – to be sure, Haneke's shot-for-shot remake of his 1997 German-language thriller, about a family terrorized in their vacation home by a pair of ever-so-polite...

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