Michael Lee
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The Summer Movie All Stars: From Tudyk to Byrne, Who Has Stood Out
While Major League Baseball pauses mid-summer to honor its heavy hitters, we’re doing the same thing for the major studios
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10 Ways to Un-Screw Up ‘Green Lantern’
Instead of a franchise starter, Warner Bros. ended up with a $200 million lesson in what not to do — will they heed that lesson?
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The Top 10 Biggest Detective Blunders on AMC’s ‘The Killing’
It would have been a great show, if not for the offensive amount of crime-solving sloppiness
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Shocked by ‘Game of Thrones’? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!
All of us who’ve read the books know that the bad news is just getting started
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‘Thor’s’ Villain: Tragic Hero … or Was He Playing Everyone?
Here’s why most of the film’s praise is aimed at the villain Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, branded “one of the best villains ever in a comic-book movie”
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No New ‘Wonder Woman’? No Worries — We Still Have the Super Heroines of the ’70s
Until David E. Kelley’s “Wonder Woman” pilot surfaces online we have the Lynda Carter version to sustain us — along with other heroines of that era
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Why ‘Bridesmaids’ Will Spawn a New Generation of Gross-Out Copycats
“Bridesmaids” is a great movie. It deserves every bit of praise it’s been getting and it will change Hollywood. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen
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‘Fast 5’ Is More Cartoon Than Action Movie
That scene where Paul Walker and Vin Diesel drive a car off a hundred-foot cliff? That might as well have been Wile E. Coyote
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The Best Movie You Haven’t Seen
About bringing simple cataract surgery to developing countries, “Out of the Darkness” is an adventure worthy of Kipling — but it’s all real
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‘Scream 4’: It Was the Best of Screams, It Was the Worst of Screams
It’s good in that it touches on ideas that are very timely and provocative. It’s bad in that it completely kills the suspension of disbelief
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‘Hanna’ Is a Fairytale – One the Brothers Grimm Would Be Proud of
Hanna has been called an art-house “Sucker Punch.” I prefer to call it a “Sucker Punch” that remembered to make its central character interesting
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Why ‘Your Highness’ Is the Biggest Disappointment of the Year
It’s the kind of bad that leaves you feeling angry and cheated because it’s due to a lack of commitment
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‘Source Code’: Not the Thriller You Think It’s Going to Be
Is it bait and switch? Technically yes, but this was done gradually and didn’t feel forced at all.
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It’s the Audience That Gets Sucker Punched in the Dreadful ‘Sucker Punch’
Main characters aren’t like batteries or light bulbs that you can swap out