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Kick-Ass 2
Kick-Ass 2
Kick-Ass 2
 

Kick-Ass 2: More real-life than super

6.5
 
August 16, 2013
 



The element of surprise worked in the favor of 2010’s Kick-Ass. While the Rainn Wilson movie Super, which came out about the same time, took on a similar theme of everyday people trying to become superheroes — Kick-Ass benefite...

Despicable Me 2
Despicable Me 2
Despicable Me 2

When we last saw super villain Gru (Steve Carell), he had just given up his evil ways to pursue a life of tranquility as father to three orphan girls. That’s essentially where 2010’s Despicable Me ended and the new sequel, Desp...

We Steal Secrets
We Steal Secrets
We Steal Secrets

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, director Alex Gibney’s (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) documentary about WikiLeaks, begins with a few riffs from one of Julian Assange’s favorite songs — Midnight Oil’s “Blossom ...

Fast & Furious 6
Fast & Furious 6
Fast & Furious 6

This fancy driving franchise has reached the point where it’s virtually impossible to up the ante. The previous flick, 2011’s Fast Five, featured a scene in which the guys dragged a vault through town behind their souped-up rid...

Les Miserables
Les Miserables
Les Miserables

We read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in French class, saw the musical stage adaptation three times and know most of the words to the non-stop sung dialogue, so we’re no strangers to the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean. Impriso...

This is 40
This is 40
This is 40
 

This is 40 (minutes too long)

6.5
 
December 19, 2012
 



Getting old is a bitch. At least that’s the point of This is 40, writer-director Judd Apatow’s sort-of sequel to 2007’s Knocked Up. The film centers on Debbie (Leslie Mann) and Pete (Paul Rudd), a couple (still) struggling with...