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Review: 'Hangover' trilogy ends on a dark note
"Daring" isn't a word you would use very much to describe 2011's "The Hangover Part II," the disappointingly lazy, beat-for-beat rehash of the wild and wildly successful original "Hangover" from 2009. And yet, here we are with "The Hangover Part III," which runs a different sort of risk by going ...
Review: 'Fast & Furious 6' is more of everything
Ever wonder what it would feel like to suddenly wake up in another universe? You could find out, perhaps, by joining the next space mission to another galaxy, or, slightly easier, you could go to your local multiplex and watch "Fast & Furious 6" without having seen the first five ...
Review: Hawke, Delpy pitch-perfect in 'Midnight'
She: "Baby, you are gonna miss that plane." He: "I know." Does that exchange immediately fill you with a sense of wistfulness? Then you're probably a fan of Jesse and Celine, aka Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, whose insanely romantic final scene in "Before Sunset" nine years ago left moviegoers ...
Review: No passing grade for 'English Teacher'
Craig Zisk moves from TV to big screen with the story of a teacher played by Julianne Moore who sleeps with a former student. Zisk has directed or produced episodes of standout TV comedies from "The Larry Sanders Show" through "Parks and Recreation." But those series boasted some of the ...
Review: 'Trek' goes not so boldly into rehash zone
"Star Trek Into Darkness" is like fan-boy fiction on a $185 million budget. It's reverential, it's faithful, it's steeped in "Trek" mythology. It's also an excessively derivative what-if rehash of themes and interactions that came before, most of the characters lesser copies and even caricatures of the originals. The scenario's ...
Review: 'Aftershock' fun but by-the-numbers horror
Splat pack ringleader Eli Roth takes his gory roadshow south in "Aftershock," a lively but formulaic Chile-set chiller where a group of tourists finds themselves bloodied, bludgeoned and buried beneath a horrific earthquake. With Roth playing one of the leads and handing off directorial duties to Nicolas Lopez (Santos), the ...
Review: All sparkle, no soul in ' Great Gatsby'
If any piece of classic American literature should be depicted on film with wildly decadent and boldly inventive style, it's "The Great Gatsby." After all, who was the character of Jay Gatsby himself if not a spinner of grandiose tales and a peddler of lavish dreams? And Baz Luhrmann would ...
Review: 'Iron Man 3' loaded down by heavy metal
In the galaxy of big-screen superheros — a rather glum lot — Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is the snappy one. He's the sarcastic, motor-mouthed, preening, self-referential do-gooder, as opposed to all those self-serious crusaders. No matter how much of a scrap heap of metal-twisting mayhem the franchise piles on ...
Review: 'Love Is All You Need'? That's all you get
The message behind most romantic comedies is the simple-minded sentiment that love is all you need. So when Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier takes that title for a departure from somber drama to romance, you might expect her to deliver it with some serious irony. Yet in Bier's "Love Is All ...
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