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Gangster Squad
Gangster Squad
Gangster Squad

Based on Paul Lieberman’s Tales from the Gangster Squad, Gangster Squad has a good premise. It centers on Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), an ex-boxer who’s trying to be the main mob boss in L.A. in 1949. So ruthless that he chains a ...

 
 
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The Impossible
The Impossible
The Impossible

The Impossible, a new film from Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage), benefits from the fact that it has built-in drama. Based on the true story of a family that somehow survived the horrible tsunami that ripped...

 
 
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Promised Land
Promised Land
Promised Land

A drama about fracking? Are you fracking serious? Hard to imagine that discriminating director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) thought Matt Damon and John Krasinski’s Promised Land screenplay — which is based on a Dave E...

 
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12 Favorite Films of 2012
12 Favorite Films of 2012
12 Favorite Films of 2012

We fully admit we have yet to see these three critics’ darlings: Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Zero Dark Thirty. But we spent countless hours in darkened theaters sitting through a slew of other movies. Some truly disa...

 
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Texas Chainsaw 3D
Texas Chainsaw 3D
Texas Chainsaw 3D

When Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released in 1974, it was banned. Now, some 40 years later, it’s the saga that simply won’t die. Texas Chainsaw 3-D, the new film by director John Luessenhop, picks up where the ori...

 
 
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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...

 
 
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Django Unchained
Django Unchained
Django Unchained

Overly long and excessively violent, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained isn’t as great of a movie as some critics make it out to be. And yet, Christoph Waltz’s performance is so terrific, it practically redeems a film. A vete...

 
 
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Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher
 

Jack Reacher misses the target

5.5
 
December 24, 2012
 



We haven’t read the 2005 novel One Shot that’s the source material for Jack Reacher, the new thriller that stars Tom Cruise as Reacher, a renegade private investigator of sorts. But even if we had, we still can’t imagine we’d h...

 
 
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The Guilt Trip
The Guilt Trip
The Guilt Trip
 

The Guilt Trip steers clear of edgy humor

6.3
 
December 21, 2012
 



Joyce Brewster (Barbra Streisand) is the kind of doting mother who can’t just let things be. And she’s really insecure. She thinks her son Andy (Seth Rogen) moved from their New Jersey home out to Cali just to get away from her...

 
 
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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...