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Review of What's Your Number? (2011)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 28 Sep 2011

There's a fine line between a character who has a sense of humor about herself and one who's being repeatedly humiliated for entertainment…

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Review of 50/50 (2011)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 28 Sep 2011

The picture could be so much better than it is, and yet it's also the kind of movie that makes you want to grade on the curve, adding extra…

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Review of Take Shelter (2011)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 28 Sep 2011

The economics of star casting aside, what would Take Shelter have been like with James McAvoy or Mark Wahlberg or Jake Gyllenhaal at its center…

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Review of Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 28 Sep 2011

While it's not quite enough to fuel a whole feature, the premise of Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a slice of meta-genre brilliance…

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Review of Margaret (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 28 Sep 2011

It's not a film that's easy to love, but like a song you at first can't stand but then end up humming all day, it works its way past your defenses…

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Review of Howl (2010)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Movieline (883) on 28 Sep 2011

The result is more fancy than funky, but the directors' aim is true and occasionally hits its mark…

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Review of Middle Men (2009)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Movieline (883) on 25 Sep 2011

Wilson's unflappable, deeply sympathetic affect and aging golden-boy visage have a very Jack-like smoothing effect on the story's rough patches…

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Review of Killer Elite (2011)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 21 Sep 2011

The picture, the debut feature of Irish director Gary McKendry, is rote and joyless, an exercise in disposability…

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Review of Machine Gun Preacher (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 21 Sep 2011

Gerard Butler, who's honed his screen persona as a brutish, charismatic jerk, isn't a bad fit for the role of Sam, even if he's more believable…

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Review of Dolphin Tale (2011)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 21 Sep 2011

Even if Dolphin Tale hits every note square on the nose - or maybe because it does - watching it is surprisingly pleasurable…

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Review of Moneyball (2011)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 21 Sep 2011

Now that Pitt no longer has brash youth on his side, he's digging deeper and doing more with less…

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Review of Red State (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 21 Sep 2011

Smith isn't up to doing anything other than setting up caricatures and then knocking them down…

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Review of Abduction (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 21 Sep 2011

As Nathan, the teenage hero of Abduction, Lautner shows he's handy with stunts, many of which he clearly and impressively performs himself,…

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Review of The Lion King (1994)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 14 Sep 2011

For the most part, being in 3-D provides a minor refresh for a style of animation that was the big-screen norm 17 years ago, and that doesn't…

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Review of I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 14 Sep 2011

After a while, you stop hoping she'll tell her family to suck it up and watch some TV and then drink a bottle of rosé all by herself, and…

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Review of Straw Dogs (1971)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 14 Sep 2011

This new version of Straw Dogs, written and directed by Rod Lurie, has been contemporized, sanitized and stripped of all complexity, and what's…

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Review of Straw Dogs (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 14 Sep 2011

This new version of Straw Dogs, written and directed by Rod Lurie, has been contemporized, sanitized and stripped of all complexity, and what's…

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Review of Restless (2011)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 11 Sep 2011

The picture is so fluttering and tender, so guileless, that you almost can't believe it was made by an old hand like Van Sant…

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Review of Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 08 Sep 2011

That Bucky Larson's humor is stuck at a toilet-centric grade school level is less damning than how little of that or any humor it contains…

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Review of Contagion (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 07 Sep 2011

Contagion's restraint is marred by one element - Alan Krumwiede, the San Francisco-based activist blogger played by Jude Law, a conspiracy…

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