Alonso Duralde
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‘A Little Bit of Heaven’ Review: 107 Minutes of Cutesy, Cancerous Hell
Kate Hudson vehicle marries the worst of rom-com whimsy with the deadliest pretty-girl-with-cancer clichés
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‘The Avengers’ Review: A Satisfying Super-Hero Sandwich
In "The Avengers," director Joss Whedon gets the Marvel Comics super-team the same way that Spielberg and Lucas understood serials in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
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‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’ Review: This Clay Play Goes Overboard But Gets the Booty
The latest Aardman Animations adventure is silly enough for kids and smart enough for their parents, but it gets a bit frantic by the end
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‘The Five-Year Engagement’ Review: Too Long, But Worth the Commitment
Jason Segel and his “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” collaborator score with another hilariously prickly and poignant look at relationships
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‘Safe’ Review: Jason Statham Gives This B-Movie Some A-Movie Cred
British action star Jason Statham keeps the adrenaline pumping as he protects a young girl from corrupt cops and Russian and Chinese mobsters in "Safe"
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‘Chimpanzee’ Review: Welcome to the Disneyfied, Sanitized Jungle
Stunning photography gets cranked through the happy-ending machine, resulting in a kid-friendly doc that’s neither fish nor fowl
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‘Darling Companion’ Review: This Shaggy Dog’s a Loveable Mutt
Diane Keaton heads an all-star cast that mixes Lawrence Kasdan’s zingy dialogue with his weakness for spoiled Baby Boomers
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‘Think Like a Man’ Review: Cast Makes Romantic Infomercial Click
An engaging cast and a steady stream of laughs help mask the familiarity of this rom-com based on Steve Harvey’s dating guide “Think Like a Man”
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‘The Cabin in the Woods’: See It Before Someone Spoils It
Joss Whedon’s “The Cabin in the Woods,” a witty and scary take on teenagers on a doomed vacation, is best enjoyed if you go in knowing as little as possible
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‘The Three Stooges’: Lots of Yucks Amid the Nyuck-Nyuck-Nyucks
“The Three Stooges,” the comedy nobody wanted, turns out to be hilarious. It’s the Farrelly Brothers’ best since “There’s Something About Mary”
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‘Keyhole’ Review: Where Cops and Robbers Meet Fantasy and Reality
In “Keyhole,” the latest style-drenched epic from director Guy Maddin, a ghost narrates (or does he?) the last stand of a mobster (or is he?)
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‘Damsels in Distress’ Review: Whit Stillman’s Latest Has Great Lyrics, But the Music’s a Little Off
“Metropolitan” director Whit Stillman returns after a long hiatus and once again charts the mating habits of the contemporary preppy
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‘American Reunion’ Review: This Pie Has Become Tasteless
The balance of sweet and smutty that made the original “American Pie” so memorable is sorely absent from this pointless sequel
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‘Goon’ Review: Comedy – and Brutality – on the Ice
Seann William Scott’s kindhearted hockey brute anchors this hilariously brutal sports comedy
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‘Bully’ Review: Best Intentions Don’t Always Lead to Best Movies
“Bully,” the buzzed-about documentary, says all the right things about the hot-button issue of bullying but doesn’t say them particularly well