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Looper
Looper
Looper
 

‘Looper’: Not past perfect

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October 1, 2012
 



Coming at the end of a summer that delivered a deluge of dystopic films about the future, the new sci-fi flick Looper didn’t quite deliver the smart vision we thought (hoped) it would. Set in the year 2044, the film centers on ...

 
 
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Pitch Perfect
Pitch Perfect
Pitch Perfect

Look, we’re just as surprised as you. A teen musical is not very 40-something hipster and we went into it convinced the whole show choir thing was as tired of a premise as vampires. And, it’s a pretty predictable young love sto...

 
 
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Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania

Comedic actor Adam Sandler used to be box office gold. His films that came out during the ’90s and early ’00s were huge hits. And he even successfully tried his hand at drama with 2002’s Punch Drunk Love. But somehow he lost hi...

 
 
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End of Watch
End of Watch
End of Watch

The young adrenaline-junkie LAPD officers in End of Watch are as fool-hardy as they are unlucky. The partners are put on a new beat in South Central Los Angeles after being cleared of a shooting. While on the lookout for guns, ...

 
 
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Dredd 3D
Dredd 3D
Dredd 3D

Dredd 3D is set in a desperate, gritty American super-city of the future that might be totally ruled by fear if it weren’t for the “judges”—heavily armed uniformed law enforcement officials who operate under a legal system that...

 
 
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The Master
The Master
The Master

We love the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, the guy behind cult classics such as Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Hard Eight and There Will Be Blood. And yet The Master, his much-anticipated latest opus, doesn’t measure up to previous e...

 
 
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

A quiet kid who enjoys reading classic literary novels more than playing sports, Charlie (Logan Lerman) has some well-founded fears as he begins freshman year of high school. He’s afraid the other students won’t like him and th...

 
 
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It’s hard to imagine that a movie about phone sex could be boring. But that’s the case with For a Good Time, Call…, the new comedy about two women who run a successful phone sex business. A hit at this year’s Sundance Film Fest...

 
 
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Arbitrage
Arbitrage
Arbitrage
 

‘Arbitrage’ gets stuck in Gere

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September 18, 2012
 



At 63, Richard Gere is still a sex symbol. The guy is still in good shape and doesn’t seem to have lost a strand of his silvery gray hair. And, at 63, Richard Gere is still a mediocre actor who squints his eyes to convey pain a...

 
 
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The Imposter
The Imposter
The Imposter

The story of Frédéric Bourdin, an adult French Algerian who impersonated a missing Texas kid to get out of trouble in Spain,The Imposter would be unbelievable if it weren’t for the fact that it’s true. But, although it is a doc...