Leah Rozen
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Review: Sarah Jessica Parker? I Really Don’t Care How She Does It
Oh, look, it’s rich people in beautifully appointed houses and they’re worried that the nanny might not arrive on time — boo-boo!
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Review: Cough and the World Coughs With You in a Taut ‘Contagion’
Unfortunately, Steven Soderbergh’s virus thriller has so many characters that none create much of an impact
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Review: ‘The Debt,’ a Taut Thriller Well Worth the Wait, Ushers in Fall Season
Finally seeing light of day, having gotten lost in the corporate shuffle when Disney sold Miramax, movie is well worth the wait
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Review: Hallelujah for the Non-Preachy But Spiritual ‘Higher Ground’
Actress and new director Vera Famiga looks at an evangelical Christian community with an open and a (mostly) nonjudgmental eye
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Review: ‘Flypaper’ Just Like ‘Pulp Fiction’ — But a Decade Too Late
Written 12 years ago by the “Hangover” team, it’s neither clever nor funny enough to make a viewer care.
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Review: John Sayles Casts His War Net Too Wide in ‘Amigo’
You don’t need a Ph.D in history to see the obvious parallels between the story that Sayles is telling in “Amigo” and more recent American conflicts
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Faithful to the Bestseller, ‘The Help’ Is a Message Movie With Sass — and Class
Review: It’s a meta-movie — its subject is the power of story-telling even as it tells terrific stories of its own
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‘Whistleblower’: ‘Inspired by,’ but Not Very Inspired
With its ballsy heroine who zealously attempts to right injustices and uncover corruption, is in spirit if not overall achievement a throwback to films of the ‘70s and ‘80s like “Norma Rae,” “Silkwood”
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‘Attack the Block’: Giant Feral Chia Pets Gone Wild
British monster mash is equal parts funny and entertaining and even offers some genuine scares
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‘Cowboys & Aliens’: Yeah, There Are Cowboys … and Aliens — But Not Much Else
“C&A” illustrates how mechanical and intellectually lackluster movies have become in the age of global-minded studios
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‘Another Earth’: A Thoughtful Sci-Fi Romance — Without Aliens
Instead, the movie’s all-too-human characters are alienated from their own feelings at times, as a second Earth appears
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‘Friends With Benefits’: Standard Rom-Com but New Product Placements
Oddly, it makes fun of the clichés of the genre even as it indulges in them
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‘Snow Flower’: Tasteful, Watered Down and Just for the Book Club Set
Not content to leave well enough alone, for viewers too antsy to sit through a period piece, it adds on to the bestseller a parallel, contemporary story
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‘Project Nim’: Dramatic Warning About Monkeying Around With Mother Nature
Latest doc from ‘Man on Wire’s’ James Marsh nimbly serves up a profoundly sad tale of ’70s chimp experiment
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‘Larry Crowne’: So Flaccid It Seems Written by a Q-Tip
See Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts make nice … in fact, too nice!