Alonso Duralde
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Polly Platt: Accomplished and Forthcoming — Even About ‘Irreconcilable Differences’
She was a Hollywood legend, but if you wanted to know anything about her career, all you had to do was ask
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‘The Tree’: Sturdy Drama About Familial Love, Loss
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Morgana Davies’ performances overcome occasional moments of overdone metaphor
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‘Sarah’s Key’: A Haunting Drama About Post-Holocaust Guilt
Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, it explores how victims and victimizers alike have been scarred by wartime cruelty
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‘Captain America’: A Red, White & Blown Opportunity
REVIEW: Stop yawning, this is important stuff — if you won’t sit still during the boring prequels, there can’t be an “Avengers” movie full of these same dullards
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Review: Don’t Pooh-Pooh ‘Winnie the Pooh’
There’s something to be said about a movie for children where there’s not a single item on-screen that plugs in or runs on batteries
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Review: Like the Title Suggests, You’ll Devour, Then Forget, ‘Tabloid’
Documentarian Errol Morris revisits a kinky but disposable scandal from the ’70s
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Review: ‘Beats, Rhymes & Life’ Captures Joyous, Bickering Tribe Called Quest Reunion
This documentary plays like the smartest, deepest episode of “Behind the Music” ever
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Review: ‘The Ledge’ = ‘God for Dummies’
Can’t wait until Thanksgiving dinner to witness a pointless conversation between a pompous fundamentalist Christian and a sneering atheist? This is the movie for you!
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‘Zookeeper’: Because Who Doesn’t Love Lame Rom-Coms and Talking Animals?
This jumbled fusion of CG talking-animal movie for kiddies and moronic rom-com for undemanding adults winds up being not entirely a fiasco, thanks mostly to Nick Nolte
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Review: ‘Horrible Bosses’ Could Use a Bit More Horrible
There are worse ways to spend 100 minutes in air-conditioning, but the new “mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore” comedy suffers from a failure of nerve
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Final ‘Harry Potter’ Brings Its A-Game From Start to Finish
With the million stupid, tacky, shrill, condescending “Eragon”-y things that could have gone wrong over 10 years and eight movies, it’s a wonder that the final entry is this good
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Review: ‘Terri’ Is an Outsider-Nerd Story, but With Surprises Up Its Pit-Stained Sleeves
Fortunately, director Azazel Jacobs isn’t out to score cheap laughs or tears from John C. Reilly as his ungainly hero
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Review: Selena Gomez’s ‘Monte Carlo’ Can’t Find Itself on a Map
Gomez doesn’t have the big-screen pop of, say, Emma Stone, but she’s thoroughly convincing as both a small-town dreamer and a world-weary gorgon
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Review: ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Can’t Get It Up
I can’t think of a film quite so vividly focused on the Problem in Daddy’s Pants, yet it is joyless and decidedly impotent