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While writer-director Spike Jonze’s new film Her makes the most of a good gimmick (man falls in love with Siri-like computer voice), Her transcends the subject matter. Part of the credit belongs to Joaquin Phoenix, who turns in...
Getaway, the new action movie starring Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez, doesn’t have to cut to the chase—it starts with one. The mayhem begins when Brent (Hawke) returns home to find his wife has been abducted. He gets a call from...
When a completely naked Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) jumps out of the trunk of a car and starts yelling in a strange Asian accent in The Hangover, it comes as a real shock. When Chow escapes from prison at the beginning of Hangover ...
There’s very little gray area in 42, a biopic about Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, the first African American on a major league team. As played by Chadwick Boseman, Robinson is a guy who elicits our sympathy after Dodgers own...
Walter Hill knows how to make a decent buddy cop flick. He directed 48 Hours, the very funny movie that starred Nick Nolte as a ragtag cop and Eddie Murphy as a troublesome fugitive. Hill goes for something similar with Bullet ...
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 ...