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    Articles by Robert Wilonsky
    Nolte, yes, plays Nolte.
    Tropic Thunder: A little something to like from...
    By Robert Wilonsky • August 12, 2008 12:00 am

    Ben Stiller is back in the sendup business, nibbling gently at the soft, manicured hands that feed him and co-stars…

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    True bromance: Franco (left) and Rogen.
    Pineapple Express: James Franco and Seth Rogen Are...
    By Robert Wilonsky • August 5, 2008 12:00 am

    It offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-’em-up, smoke-’em-up, blow-’em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who have made…

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    Smith accepts his superpowers too late for us to care.
    Hancock: Will Smith ain’t so super
    By Robert Wilonsky • July 1, 2008 12:00 am

    As the indestructible title character, Will Smith is a Man of Steel who’d rather melt into a puddle of cheap…

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    PICK Wall-E: We love this little cube dude
    PICK Wall-E: We love this little cube dude
    By Robert Wilonsky • June 26, 2008 12:00 am

        Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It’s R2-D2 in love. 2001: A Space Odyssey starring…

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    McBride leads Foot first. Opens at Varsity, Fri., June 6. Rated R. 87 minutes.
    The Foot Fist Way: Like a Will Ferrell...
    By Robert Wilonsky • June 4, 2008 12:00 am

    Boorish tae kwon do instructor Fred Simmons (Danny McBride) is a strip-mall hero for whom demonstrating his cinder-block-breaking skills to…

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    Suvari can’t get un-<i>Stuck</i>, despite advice from Russell Hornsby.
    In October 2001, a Fort Worth, Texas, nurse’s...
    By Robert Wilonsky • June 4, 2008 12:00 am

    In October 2001, a Fort Worth, Texas, nurse’s aide named Chante Mallard struck 37-year-old Gregory Glenn Biggs with her 1997…

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    Hunt calls her own shots.
    Then She Found Me: Helen Hunt Gives Herself...
    By Robert Wilonsky • April 29, 2008 12:00 am

    First-time writer-director Helen Hunt stars as April Epner, a schoolteacher desperate to have a child before she turns 40. (Hunt…

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    No Honor for Dempsey and Monaghan.
    Made of Honor: Back to the O.R., McDreamy!
    By Robert Wilonsky • April 29, 2008 12:00 am

    Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for…

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    Penn (left) and Cho get high in Harold.
    Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay: War...
    By Robert Wilonsky • April 22, 2008 12:00 am

    Once more, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) are on a road trip, this time not in…

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    Mila Kunis helps Segal Forget.
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall : Enough Penis; More Jokes,...
    By Robert Wilonsky • April 15, 2008 12:00 am

    Jason Segel puts it all out there—and, like, it’s all out there in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It takes all of…

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    SJP among the Smart-ies.
    Smart People: Ellen Page’s Middling Juno Follow-Up
    By Robert Wilonsky • April 8, 2008 12:00 am

    Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid, beneath a greasy moptop and a brushy beard) is a misanthropic college prof who, when he’s…

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    Did we mention Kevin Spacey is among the 21 crowd?
    21: Sorry, Wrong Number
    By Robert Wilonsky • March 25, 2008 12:00 am

    Ben Mezrich’s 2002 best-seller. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions,…

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    Statham and Burrows in their ’70s finery.
    The Bank Job: Jason Statham Goes Back to...
    By Robert Wilonsky • March 4, 2008 12:00 am

    The English media have spent the better part of a year back-and-forthing over the true-or-false plot points of the 1971-set…

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    Harrelson, not Ferrell, is the reason to see this movie.
    Semi-Pro: Woody Harrelson Outjumps Will Ferrell
    By Robert Wilonsky • February 26, 2008 12:00 am

      Better than Blades of Glory, which wasn’t nearly as good as Talladega Nights, which was a little better than…

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    No, Rachel, no! He's not good enough for you!
    Definitely, Maybe: Ryan Reynolds Not So Awful After...
    By Robert Wilonsky • February 12, 2008 12:00 am

    Sandwiched somewhere between the American Spirit commercials and the Clinton campaigning that make up Definitely, Maybe is a surprisingly rewarding…

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    If it’s Vegas, he must be Vince.
    Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: Backstage Bits...
    By Robert Wilonsky • February 5, 2008 12:00 am

      Even at 100 minutes, this documentary about Vaughn and pals’ 2005 bus tour from L.A. to Chicago (and all…

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    Garner puts her Alias chops to use in The Kingdom.
    Fresh Carnage From Jennifer Garner and Jason Statham
    By Robert Wilonsky • January 15, 2008 12:00 am

    The Kingdom Universal, $29.98 No doubt about it, Peter Berg’s The Kingdom ranked as one of 2007’s more visceral action…

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    Keaton at least counts herself lucky not to be in Cassandra’s Dream this week.
    Mad Money: Diane Keaton Offers Her Two Cents’...
    By Robert Wilonsky • January 15, 2008 12:00 am

      In this remake of a 2001 BBC television production titled Hot Money—about women who clean the Bank of England…

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    Heigl feels pretty. The movie? Not so much.
    27 Dresses: Katherine Heigl Is Naked Without Judd...
    By Robert Wilonsky • January 15, 2008 12:00 am

      A forgettable, formulaic comedy so predictable that seeing it and skipping it are the exact same thing. Fox sneak-previewed…

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    Hanks and Hoffman as unlikely mujahedeen.
    Charlie Wilson’s War: Tom Hanks and Strippers Liberate...
    By Robert Wilonsky • December 18, 2007 12:00 am

    Hell of a thing, getting Mike Nichols to adapt the yer-kiddin’-me story of Charlie Wilson, the congressman from Lufkin, Texas,…

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