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It’s a Date Night from hell

Skip this turkey and watch The Office or 30 Rock instead

Steve Carell and Tina Fey are two of the most beloved and accomplished comedians we have today, but they’re not miracle workers. The makers of the new action comedy Date Night seem to want to rely on

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The Gods must be crazy

Clash of the Titans is a sadly small-scale adventure

By Carey Norris

Early in the new remake of Clash of the Titans, the hero finds Bubo, the clockwork owl that provided comic relief in the 1981 original, asks, “What’s this?” and tosses it aside. That is a pretty good

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Beware of bubbling yellow hot tubs

Hot Tub Time Machine is an uneven comedy

By Carey Norris

When you hear that a film is called Hot Tub Time Machine, your reaction will likely be that the film will either be the stupidest movie ever made or relentlessly awesome. This movie is a bit of both.

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Casualties of war

By Carey Norris

“The reasons we go to war always matter,” says the soldier played by Matt Damon in the new thriller Green Zone. If only everyone thought that. But the film shows us, as it deftly blends fiction and hi

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Wonderland without wonder

Burton's film looks but doesn't feel like "Alice"

By Carey Norris

Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland has been adapted dozens of times over the years, with its episodic narrative and allusive characters proving to be a marvelously elastic template onto which artists

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Wolfman has more bark than bite

Plenty of blood and guts, but little heart

By Carey Norris

Werewolf movies are often grand tragedies, with stories of cursed people who are doomed either to live and kill or die in order to end the bloodshed. Most of the best werewolf films, from the original

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From Paris With Love and squalor

Travolta’s new action flick is dumb, junky fun

By Carey Norris

In recent years, France has picked up some of the world’s slack in making fun kinetic action films. French filmmaker Luc Besson, who made La Femme Nikita and The Professional, still directs the occasi

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Mad Mel 2: This Time It’s Personal

Gibson wants revenge, again, in Edge of Darkness

By Carey Norris

Mel Gibson hasn’t starred in a film since M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs, way back in 2002, and his return to the screen is the reason that most people will see the new revenge film Edge of Darkness.

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Yet another end-of-the-world flick

Legion is both ridiculous and thoroughly grim

By Carey Norris

Amid a bumper crop of end-of-the-world movies, the new supernatural thriller Legion may be the dumbest. Instead of asteroids or nuclear war, this film has decided to bludgeon us to death with clunky s

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Eli’s Coming

"The Book of Eli" is a stark, well-acted apocalypse film

By Carey Norris

The end of the world has become so commonplace in movies recently that an apocalypse really has to distinguish itself these days. The new film The Book of Eli manages to do that somewhat, while not en