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Review of Horrible Bosses (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 14 Jul 2011

Horrible Bosses is a sloppy  film that wants to be an edgy black comedy but doesn't come close to pushing the envelope enough…

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Review of Larry Crowne (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 06 Jul 2011

While the film isn't exactly groundbreaking, it does finish much better than it begins…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 06 Jul 2011

The Tree of Life has an illusion of profundity, but it is just that, an illusion…

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Review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 28 Jun 2011

I'm not the target audience, so I take my pleasure watching the quirky performances delivered by the great pros brought in to provide the human…

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Review of Green Lantern (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 16 Jun 2011

Green Lantern fails on almost all levels. The story seems determined to hit every cliché in the universe and the dialogue is consistently trite…

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Review of Super 8 (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 10 Jun 2011

It is hard to overlook some major holes in the logic of the film, even for a sci-fi movie where concepts of logic are more fluid…

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Review of Super 8 (1988)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 10 Jun 2011

It is hard to overlook some major holes in the logic of the film, even for a sci-fi movie where concepts of logic are more fluid…

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Review of The Hangover Part II (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 01 Jun 2011

Five credited writers have made the sequel darker, much less funny and provided the type of bad behavior in another country that pretty much…

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Review of The Beaver (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 01 Jun 2011

The film works thanks to the performance by Gibson…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 19 May 2011

On Stranger Tides is not an exceptional summer popcorn movie, but it provides acceptable summer fun…

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Review of Bridesmaids (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 18 May 2011

Bridesmaids is far from a seamless comedy masterpiece, but what does work eventually outweighs what doesn't quite fit together…

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Review of Thor (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 06 May 2011

Thor is such a monumental waste of top tier talent, it adds an air of sadness to this prime example of cookie cutter filmmaking…

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Review of Fast Five (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 01 May 2011

For those of us who thought Diesel and Dwayne The Rock Johnson were separated at birth, these two have a best-of-the-baldies throwdown that…

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Review of African Cats (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 27 Apr 2011

A beautiful family film that reveals the story of two families, a lion pride and a cheetah mom trying to raise and protect her incredibly adorable…

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Review of Rio (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 20 Apr 2011

Rio features great vocal work from Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway and Tracy Morgan and a tired plot that needs the eye-popping animation to…

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Review of The Conspirator (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 20 Apr 2011

An interesting history lesson that could have been more compelling…

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Review of Hanna (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 13 Apr 2011

Provides the thrills of a well-made action picture, but with the potential for being much more squandered…

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Review of Soul Surfer (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 13 Apr 2011

An uplifting and utterly traditional exploration of faith in the face of death that also happens to have some terrific surfing footage and…

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Review of Source Code (2011)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 07 Apr 2011

Gyllenhaal has never quite made the quantum leap from dependable actor to superstar leading man, but his ability to engender compassion has…

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Review of Paul (1974)

By Lori Hoffman (553) for Atlantic City Weekly (553) on 30 Mar 2011

Even with a wee too many bladder jokes, Paul is sweet and often hilarious…

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