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Film Review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Powerful, somewhat flawed drama about a brilliant but strangely afflicted 11-year-old on a mission to find a lock that fits the key his father left behind after dying in the 9/11 attack is packed with important themes, fine acting and emotional tugs. These virtues and director Stephen Daldry’s showy handling help counter elements that strain credibility. More »
Major Releases
Film Review: Chronicle
This tale of three teenage boys who bond and cavort after being suddenly invested with supernatural powers is quite effective. The only thing is, it’s not really scary. Revenge, yes. Chills and thrills, no. More »
Film Review: The Woman in Black
The unimaginative approach of both director and screenwriter make this attempt at classy horror singularly uninvolving and lacking in the essential element of surprise. More »
Film Review: Big Miracle
Fictional treatment of the 1988 effort to rescue three whales trapped under Alaskan ice features a wide-ranging cast of characters and offers solid family entertainment. More »
Film Review: One for the Money
Janet Evanovich’s best-selling Stephanie Plum series deserved better than this woefully executed, stillborn attempt at a franchise. More »
Film Review: Man on a Ledge
Action star Sam Worthington plays a disgraced cop threatening suicide from atop a hotel ledge, but we rapidly lose interest. More »
Specialty Releases
Film Review: Windfall
Documentary about a quiet upstate New York farm town shaken and divided by some not always dirty and sneaky players in the burgeoning, highly profitable industrial wind-turbine industry is not just the genre at its most revealing but category 5-level entertainment. More »
Film Review: The Innkeepers
Two slackers becalmed in dead-end jobs at a rambling, supposedly haunted Connecticut inn decide to play ghost hunter in this shaggy-dog story with a sharp little sting in its tail. More »
Film Review: Kill List
What starts out looking like a convincingly grubby but unexceptional U.K. crime picture takes an eleventh-hour detour into way spookier territory: Audiences willing to go with it are in for a real treat. More »
Film Review: Perfect Sense
A strong candidate for the most nauseating film of the year, in every sense. More »
Film Review: W.E.
Madonna has fashioned quite an entertainingly fancy bauble of an ultimate chick flick, especially in her striking, glamorous evocation of the legendary Windsor romance. More »
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