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Mark Wahlberg is practically compelled to deliver an understated lead performance in The Fighter.
Leap Year is like most relationships: You keep waiting for it to get better, until you finally accept that it won’t.
The film leaves us with a rather overlong, lovey-dovey picture of Julia Child.
Director Shawn Levy remains unable to convey the type of grand, awe-inspiring scope and wonder that his material requires.
There’s no doubt that Doubt has been given a highly exalted DVD treatment.
Director Catherine Jeffs lucked out when she scored Amy Adams and Emily Blunt to co-star in her mildly pleasing dramedy Sunshine Cleaning.
Taking Kate Winslet out of the equation seemed to turn this category into a dream scenario: an Oscar ripe for the taking in a veritable five-way contest.
Doubt doesn’t work fully on screen as it did on stage, but it’s worth seeing for Meryl Streep’s grace notes.
To quote Julia Roberts’s character in the film, Charlie Wilson’s War is liberal…but not where it counts.
The film is brisk, peppy, light on its feet, and tries awfully hard to be reminiscent of a fast-talking Depression-era rags-to-riches comedy.
They doubted me, but then they saw, and then they believed.
Mike Nichols navigates the nuts-and-bolts of political strategy as prosaically as he did in Primary Colors.
As with so much of Disney’s female-centric fantasies, the energetic film eventually peddles the same old ass-backward messages.
A film like Underdog is best defined by its complete lack of distinction.
Zach Braff is just about the world’s most insufferable comedic actor, and The Ex does nothing to diminish that reputation.
A nutty collection of features highlight this tight Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Boby DVD.
To the film’s credit, the inevitable third-act competition is staged to bring forward the absurd humor that eluded Days of Thunder.
Where to begin?
Phil Morrison’s film is a humane statement on the blue state/red state divide.