‘Kelly & Cal’ Review: New Mom Juliette Lewis Finds an Unlikely Suburban Soulmate
This SXSW premiere stars Lewis and Jonny Weston as two outcasts who find each other in a sweet, sensitive film that doesn’t settle for easy answers
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‘300: Rise of An Empire’ Review: More of the Same, But Slightly Less
Eva Green stands out in a film that’s otherwise a similar second serving of slo-mo ultraviolence and showy camera work
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‘3 Days To Kill’ Review: Kevin Costner Thriller Is Ambitious Disaster Trying to Be Both Action and Comedy
Director McG’s latest suggests the director wasn’t kidding when he named his last movie “This Means War”
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‘About Last Night’ Review: Kevin Hart and Regina Hall Steal This Mixed-Doubles Rom-Com
This reworking of the 1986 comedy gets so much right about love and relationships that you’ll forgive the occasional cliché in the screenplay by Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”)
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‘Vampire Academy’ Review: A YA Adaptation With More Hormones Than Brain Cells
More “Meaningless” than “Mean Girls,” Mark Waters’ vampire-themed thriller drowns overprivileged teens in an overcomplicated mythology
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‘Best Night Ever’ Review: Anti-Funny Ruins Your Memories of Movies From Which it Stole
Ultimately, “Best Night Ever” feels more like “worst movie ever”
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‘Knights of Badassdom’ Review: A Cultural Phenomenon Edited Down to a One-Note Joke
Producers reportedly took over director Joe Lynch’s celebration of live-action roleplaying and reduced it to a repetitive punchline
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‘Devil’s Due’ Review: Found-Footage Horror Conceit Is Visually Ambitious – And That’s Not a Compliment
A needless multicamera setup becomes a trap for a promising idea and a pair of gifted filmmakers
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‘The Legend Of Hercules’ Review: Kellan Lutz’s Beefcake Saga is One Messy Myth (Video)
This retelling of Hercules’ mythology doesn’t feature 12 labors, but 99 — one for each minute the audience has to sit through
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‘Justin Bieber’s Believe’ Review: Portrait of an Artist Who’s No Longer a ‘Baby’
Growing pains and the price of fame take center stage in this tour-documentary follow-up to “Never Say Never”
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‘Walking With Dinosaurs’ Review: You’ll Be Rooting for Extinction
Insufferably inane movie assumes that youngsters think paleontology isn’t cool — and that the irritating performances by John Leguizamo and Justin Long will be funny
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Porcelain Horse’ Writer-Director on the ‘Expectation’ of Freebase Addiction
“I thought, if I could make a film about corruption, it would be an interesting place to start with personal corruption”
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘The Book Thief’ Star Geoffrey Rush Heaps Praise on Co-Star Sophie Nelisse (Video)
“To suddenly work opposite someone who is 12 who was just mind-blowingly focused, graceful, effortless, disciplined, deeply moving, I found it shifted the goalposts for me for what I thought acting was about,” he revealed
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‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Review: Peter Jackson’s Second Verse Is Better Than the First
Clearer and more engaging than its predecessor, this second installation in the “Hobbit” trilogy deftly brings out the human side of dwarves and elves while upping the action quotient
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‘Twice Born’ Review: Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch as Twits Under Fire in Sarajevo
When bombs are falling and people are dying, it’s hard to care a hill of beans about the problems of two underdeveloped and self-indulgent characters
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TheWrap Screening Series: How Brie Larson’s Roulette Career Landed on ‘Short Term 12’ (Video)
The hard-to-pin-down actress says “certain things that make sense to me when they’re on the page”
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘The Rocket’ Director Kim Mordaunt on Dodging Bombs and Casting Street Kids
“Their imaginations were so pure, so alive, that I thought, if I make another film, I want it to be about these kids”
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‘Oldboy’ Review: Besides Josh Brolin, Spike Lee’s Cult Classic Remake Adds Little That’s New
The themes of revenge and redemption feel muddled as Josh Brolin fights his way though an uninspired retooling of the Park Chan-Wook original
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‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’ Review: A Riveting Chronicle of ‘The Greatest Movie Never Made’
Frank Pavich’s documentary chronicles the rise and fall of “the greatest film never made”
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‘The Armstrong Lie’ Review: A Too-Generously-Unbiased View of Lance’s Tour de Doping
Director Alex Gibney approaches his subject with the same sort of emotional detachment that Armstrong brings to his confessions
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‘Ender’s Game’ Review: Complex Sci-Fi Adventure That Appeals to Children’s Inner Adults
“Ender’s Game” is a rare example of filmmaking with a scalpel at a scale that usually demands a hatchet
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‘Nebraska’ Review: Bruce Dern, Alexander Payne Deliver Nuanced Portrait of Small-Town Life
Payne’s latest meets at an unexpectedly powerful crossroads between hazy optimism and clear-eyed nostalgia
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‘Escape Plan’ Review: Stallone and Schwarzenegger Can’t Evade B-Movie Hell in Epic Pairing
Mikael Hafstrom movie hints at bigger ambitions but is impossible to take seriously
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‘The Fifth Estate’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Wins Sympathy for the Devil
Bill Condon’s film offers a complex but ultimately one-sided portrait of charismatic Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
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‘Romeo and Juliet’ Review: It’s Just Teen Hormones, Dude
Adapted with unironic earnestness by Julian Fellowes, the latest adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic stage play effectively chronicles young love but doesn’t transcend it
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‘Mood Indigo’ Review: Michel Gondry Revisits Bittersweet ‘Eternal Sunshine’ Territory
The French director’s latest film combines quirky visuals and raw emotion to tell an imaginative, powerful love story
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‘The Zero Theorem’ Review: Terry Gilliam’s Personal Journey on Life vs. Beliefs
Terry Gilliam’s latest asks complicated questions about human existence, and hides the answers in plain sight
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‘Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons’ Review: A Masterpiece That ‘Unfolds Like a Symphony’
The “Kung Fu Hustle” director’s follow up is the “result of a virtuoso working at the absolute peak of his talents”
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‘The Green Inferno’ Review: Eli Roth Upends the Cannibal Film
Unfortunately, Roth’s abundant gore fails to either offend or exhilarate
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‘Man of Tai Chi’ Review: Keanu Reeves’ Almost Excellent Martial-Arts Adventure
Reeves’ goofily charming directorial debut has visceral energy and immediacy but lacks the substance to follow through on its martial-arts mysticism
