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Review of Shakespeare in Love (1998)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Apr 2012

Delivers the goods, if the goods you're in the market for happen to be a clever romance concerning William Shakespeare that's unlikely to cause…

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Review of The Ugly Truth (2009)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Apr 2012

The sort of rom-com apparatus that no relationship can overcome…

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Review of Oldboy (2003)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Apr 2012

The result is a powerfully visceral experience that justifies itself almost entirely on surface chops, with striking color composition and…

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Review of Chimpanzee (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Apr 2012

It isn't easy to insult the intelligence of preschoolers, but Chimpanzee's insistence on turning the two gangs into the Sharks and the Jets…

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Review of The Lucky One (2012)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Apr 2012

As a pretty, low-stakes bayou romance The Lucky One works well enough. When asked to carry any kind of dramatic weight, however, it collapses…

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Review of Appaloosa (2008)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Apr 2012

As with many other mediocre actor-directors, Harris' attention to the performances, including his own fine turn, has cost him in other areas…

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Review of The Three Stooges (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Apr 2012

The Three Stooges isn't very funny, but it is, like last year's far superior The Muppets, a sincere act of fandom on an epic scale…

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Review of How to Grow a Band (2012)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Apr 2012

Thile has the charisma, presence, and emotional transparency of a great documentary subject, but How To Grow A Band maintains a respectable…

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Review of Couples Retreat (2009)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Apr 2012

Features a running gag about a little boy in the midst of potty training who doesn’t always go where it’s appropriate…

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Review of The Departed (2006)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Apr 2012

When a director of Scorsese's caliber is working at the top of his game, it's a reminder of why we go to the movies in the first place…

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Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Apr 2012

Burton brings his signature visual style, and a pair of stock players for his stars, into this film adaptation, but he wisely follows Sondheim's…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Apr 2012

What started out as a fleet one-off swashbuckler with novel supernatural elements has become loaded and graceless, with each new entry barreling…

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Review of ATM (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Apr 2012

No, the indie horror movie ATM is not about a psychotic automated teller that charges the steepest of convenience fees - your life…

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Review of The Hunter (2012)

By Sam Adams (514) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Apr 2012

The movie fumbles badly when it's time to turn those actions toward resolution, forcing an ending that seems both arbitrary and cruel…

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Review of The Hunter (2011)

By Sam Adams (514) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Apr 2012

The movie fumbles badly when it's time to turn those actions toward resolution, forcing an ending that seems both arbitrary and cruel…

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Review of We the Party (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Apr 2012

Van Peebles compensates for his stylistic clunkiness - the film overuses split screens and sometimes looks so bright, it could be a '90s sitcom…

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Review of Grandma's Boy (2006)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Apr 2012

Grandma's Boy aspires to nothing more than the frathouse goofiness and juvenile high spirits of early Sandler vehicles, but it possesses the…

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Review of Damsels in Distress (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Mar 2012

Even though I'm not sure I understand what Stillman was going for minute-to-minute, I was swept away by how original Damsels is, and how funny…

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Review of Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)

By Sam Adams (514) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Mar 2012

Hirschbiegel fails to discipline his English-speaking cast, allowing Nesbitt so much rein with his caffeinated performance that sympathies…

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Review of An Education (2009)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Mar 2012

An Education shares with Hornby’s best work trenchant insight into the way smart, hyper-verbal young people let the music, films, books,…

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