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