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Anonymous Just Another Historic Mishmash

Even Anglophiles might get lost in this convoluted historical drama that thinks it’s clever, but is mainly just overheated.

Anonymous Just Another Historic Mishmash

Puss in Boots Jumpstarts the Holiday Season

A Shrek spinoff, Puss in Boots may be just the jumpstart animated family films needed ahead of the holiday-movie season.

Puss in Boots Jumpstarts the Holiday Season

Not Much Story to Tell in The Rum Diary

While The Rum Diary hints at themes of political and corporate corruption, it never invites deeper analysis of its story.

Not Much Story to Tell in The Rum Diary

In Time Ultimately Isn't Worth Yours

For all the clichéd dialogue about making time count, the filmmakers don’t make the most of their own opportunities In Time.

In Time Ultimately Isn't Worth Yours

Three Musketeers Doesn’t Have Much Fight

Why anyone would adapt Alexandre Dumas’s famed novel yet again—with no new angle to boot—is a real head-scratcher.

Three Musketeers Doesn’t Have Much Fight

The Mighty Macs Is a Slam Dunk

Based on the true story of Immaculata College’s 1971-72 team, The Mighty Macs is the original Cinderella story in women’s basketball.

The Mighty Macs Is a Slam Dunk

Legalism, Dancing Clash in Footloose Remake

The remake of Footloose is still a born crowd-pleaser nearly 30 years later, especially when everybody’s dancing.

Legalism, Dancing Clash in Footloose Remake

The Big Year Is for the Birds

Despite starring comedians Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson, The Big Year is shockingly devoid of big laughs.

The Big Year Is for the Birds

Real Steel Packs a Surprisingly Good Punch

Not to be confused with those Transformers robots in disguise, Real Steel has an actual human pulse.

Real Steel Packs a Surprisingly Good Punch

Originality Found Lacking in Ides

With a script that plays like a greatest hits of political parables, The Ides of March is done well. But we’ve seen this before.

Originality Found Lacking in Ides

Lives Are Changed Along The Way

Together a little band of pilgrims walk, drink, and fight their way along the road. But do they find what they’re looking for?

Lives Are Changed Along The Way

Two Steps Forward and Back in Courageous

A script celebrating family is to be applauded. But the delivery of this message in Courageous is a bit heavy-handed.

Two Steps Forward and Back in Courageous

Machine Gun Preacher Not a Misfire

Machine Gun Preacher hits its target, but as a model of bold faith, it raises more questions than it answers.

Machine Gun Preacher Not a Misfire

Cancer Battle Gets Personal in 50/50

Based on screenwriter Will Reiser’s own battle with cancer, 50/50 is a funny, heartbreaking look at what happens next.

Cancer Battle Gets Personal in 50/50

Dolphin Tale Told Swimmingly

Dolphin Tale’s heart is in the right place. And that helps overcome the cynicism a formulaic plot too frequently feeds.

Dolphin Tale Told Swimmingly

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