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Cars 2 Kicks the Action into Overdrive

With a second installment that outshines the original, perhaps Pixar is hoping to prove that Cars wasn’t a bad idea.

Cars 2 Kicks the Action into Overdrive

Bad Teacher Skips Class, Among Other Things

Bad Teacher is painfully desperate for laughs. Its primary modus operandi is shock value, packaged in the usual suspects of pervasive language,...

Bad Teacher Skips Class, Among Other Things

Art Does Just Enough to Get By

The Art of Getting By has no right to work, but the film pays off with an ending that plays much more like a mainstream romantic comedy than the...

Art Does Just Enough to Get By

Green Lantern Lights Up to Entertain

Green Lantern does have a lightness of spirit throughout much of it that makes it more fun than it might have been otherwise.

Green Lantern Lights Up to Entertain

Mr. Popper’s Penguins Almost Worth Flipping For

For moviegoing families who’ve already seen Kung Fu Panda 2 and Judy Moody’s NOT Bummer Summer, Mr. Popper’s Penguins is another option worth...

Mr. Popper’s Penguins Almost Worth Flipping For

Black Gospel Surveyed in Rejoice & Shout

Rejoice & Shout is a near-encyclopedic journey through the almost 200-year history of “other people” who spoke God’s Word through black gospel...

Black Gospel Surveyed in Rejoice & Shout

Beautiful Boy: A Study in Emotional Inertia

Beautiful Boy, from co-writer and director Shawn Ku, is about the furthest thing from a summer blockbuster that could be imagined. It’s the “feel...

Beautiful Boy: A Study in Emotional Inertia

Super 8 Captures the Summer Movie Experience

Super 8 is the kind of summer movie that made an entire generation fall in love with movies. The kind that didn’t just “wow” us but moved us, and...

Super 8 Captures the Summer Movie Experience

Nothing That New in Midnight in Paris

Woody Allen’s statement isn’t anything original: now is your Golden Age, whether you like it or not, so live in it rather than lament the past.

Nothing That New in Midnight in Paris

Life, Love Studied in Mike Mills’ Beginners

Starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer and based on his own life story, director Mike Mills’ Beginners is a study of life, love and...

Life, Love Studied in Mike Mills’ Beginners

New X-Men is First Class Entertainment

Beyond the inspired direction, X-Men: First Class’ genius lies in the casting, particularly of James McAvoy as Professor X.

New X-Men is First Class Entertainment

Tree of Life a Mixed Bag of Beauty, Boredom

While The Tree of Life claimed the biggest prize at the Cannes Film Festival, it still received a decidedly mixed reaction—cheers and boos—from the...

Tree of Life a Mixed Bag of Beauty, Boredom

Plenty of Kick Found in Kung Fu Panda 2

Sticking with the bear necessities, a few lessons worth learning, and plenty of action to boot, Kung Fu Panda 2 is the rare sequel that’s as much...

Plenty of Kick Found in Kung Fu Panda 2

Hangover II Leaves Viewers with a Headache

The Hangover Part II aims for the upper decks but is, instead, a major whiff—unnecessary, witless and inferior in every way to the highly overrated...

Hangover II Leaves Viewers with a Headache

Meek’s Cutoff Traffics in Spare Story, Stark Visuals

Starring Michelle Williams, Meek’s Cutoff is an exploration of suspicion, mistrust and the American spirit. Base instincts keep the characters...

Meek’s Cutoff Traffics in Spare Story, Stark Visuals

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