Todd Gilchrist
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‘300: Rise of An Empire’ Review: More of the Same, But Slightly Less
Eva Green stands out in a film that’s otherwise a similar second serving of slo-mo ultraviolence and showy camera work
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‘3 Days To Kill’ Review: Kevin Costner Thriller Is Ambitious Disaster Trying to Be Both Action and Comedy
Director McG’s latest suggests the director wasn’t kidding when he named his last movie “This Means War”
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‘About Last Night’ Review: Kevin Hart and Regina Hall Steal This Mixed-Doubles Rom-Com
This reworking of the 1986 comedy gets so much right about love and relationships that you’ll forgive the occasional cliché in the screenplay by Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”)
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‘Vampire Academy’ Review: A YA Adaptation With More Hormones Than Brain Cells
More “Meaningless” than “Mean Girls,” Mark Waters’ vampire-themed thriller drowns overprivileged teens in an overcomplicated mythology
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‘Best Night Ever’ Review: Anti-Funny Ruins Your Memories of Movies From Which it Stole
Ultimately, “Best Night Ever” feels more like “worst movie ever”
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‘Knights of Badassdom’ Review: A Cultural Phenomenon Edited Down to a One-Note Joke
Producers reportedly took over director Joe Lynch’s celebration of live-action roleplaying and reduced it to a repetitive punchline
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‘Devil’s Due’ Review: Found-Footage Horror Conceit Is Visually Ambitious – And That’s Not a Compliment
A needless multicamera setup becomes a trap for a promising idea and a pair of gifted filmmakers
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‘The Legend Of Hercules’ Review: Kellan Lutz’s Beefcake Saga is One Messy Myth (Video)
This retelling of Hercules’ mythology doesn’t feature 12 labors, but 99 — one for each minute the audience has to sit through
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‘Justin Bieber’s Believe’ Review: Portrait of an Artist Who’s No Longer a ‘Baby’
Growing pains and the price of fame take center stage in this tour-documentary follow-up to “Never Say Never”
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‘Walking With Dinosaurs’ Review: You’ll Be Rooting for Extinction
Insufferably inane movie assumes that youngsters think paleontology isn’t cool — and that the irritating performances by John Leguizamo and Justin Long will be funny
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Porcelain Horse’ Writer-Director on the ‘Expectation’ of Freebase Addiction
“I thought, if I could make a film about corruption, it would be an interesting place to start with personal corruption”
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘The Book Thief’ Star Geoffrey Rush Heaps Praise on Co-Star Sophie Nelisse (Video)
“To suddenly work opposite someone who is 12 who was just mind-blowingly focused, graceful, effortless, disciplined, deeply moving, I found it shifted the goalposts for me for what I thought acting was about,” he revealed
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‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Review: Peter Jackson’s Second Verse Is Better Than the First
Clearer and more engaging than its predecessor, this second installation in the “Hobbit” trilogy deftly brings out the human side of dwarves and elves while upping the action quotient
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‘Twice Born’ Review: Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch as Twits Under Fire in Sarajevo
When bombs are falling and people are dying, it’s hard to care a hill of beans about the problems of two underdeveloped and self-indulgent characters
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TheWrap Screening Series: How Brie Larson’s Roulette Career Landed on ‘Short Term 12’ (Video)
The hard-to-pin-down actress says “certain things that make sense to me when they’re on the page”