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Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3-D: Just What It Sounds Like
The ravishing and kitschy Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3-D is the rare movie whose title accurately indicates…
Alan Scherstuhl
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This Is 40: Paul Rudd Prefers His iPad to Sex
Sadly, country songwriters stand as nearly the only entertainers in our popular culture who craft memorable art on…
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Hyde Park on Hudson: Bill Murray Is a Fine FDR. Pity About the Movie
It’s dispiriting that a film about the romantic life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cultivated a small coterie…
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Warming the Corpse of a Dead Celeb
Deep into Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates’ bouillon-dense fever dream of a novel, Marilyn Monroe at last manages to…
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Addicted to Fame: The Unseemly End of Anna Nicole Smith
David Giancola’s cheapo, disingenuous doc contributes one painful scene to the collective understanding of what it must feel…
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Spielberg’s Lincoln Comeback
The first few minutes of Lincoln (review) play out like a parody of the expectations of Steven Spielberg’s detractors.…
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Seven Psychopaths: Colin Farrell as a Troubled Hollywood Writer
Writer/director Martin McDonagh contrives to have his hero, an Irish screenwriter with the “get it” name Marty (Colin…
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Shut Up, Little Man!: Worst. Roommates. Ever
On the cuss-filled tapes that made them unwitting (and unknowing) celebrities, San Francisco roommates Raymond and Peter provided…