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  • Secret Lives

    By on May 6, 2009

    Washington loves its secrets -- or at least it loves pretending something is a secret even though it's made its way through the rumor mill...

  • Space Balls

    By on May 6, 2009

    J.J. Abrams may not be boldly going where no man has gone before, but he's boldly doing what few have done before: creating a daring,...

  • De-Clawed

    By on April 30, 2009

    What happens when the badass becomes the sweet and sensitive one? You lose the edge. And that's exactly the problem with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. There's...

  • Closet Cases

    By on April 29, 2009

    Where's the rage in Outrage? Director Kirby Dick, who last covered the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system in This Film Is Not Yet...

  • The Pitts

    By on April 22, 2009

    Why is summer the season of change? Really, think about the number of films about transformative summers, from the iconic Summer of '42, to the...

  • Collision Course

    By on April 8, 2009

    Excelente. Una maravillosa película. Fantástico. And many other superlatives that I no longer remember from high school Spanish. By all standard measures, Sin Nombre should...

  • Roller Coasting

    By on April 1, 2009

    Ah, the '80s. Who doesn't miss the hair, the fashion sense, the music, and the simpler times? James (Jesse Eisenberg) might disagree with that last...

  • Male Bonding

    By on March 18, 2009

    It's springtime again -- season of love, hope, budding bromance. That's no typo, gang -- bromance is the new romance. It's all about the dude...

  • Identity Crisis

    By on March 4, 2009

    Let me make myself perfectly clear: Watchmen isn't your ordinary comic-book superhero movie. It's an extraordinary comic-book superhero movie. Cast of 'The Watchmen' The long-awaited,...

  • Choosing Oscar

    By on February 18, 2009

    It's Oscar time -- let the judging begin! The clothes, the hair, the jewelry... and if there's any time left you might get around to...

  • Attention Shoppers!

    By on February 11, 2009

    Sometimes a movie is like an ice-cream cone. It's all sweet and sugary goodness, but there's nothing packed into the cone so it cracks and...

  • Hopelessly Undevoted

    By on February 4, 2009

    Here are the facts of life according to He's Just Not That Into You: Women are pathetic and hopeless in love; the only way to...

  • Frame by Frame

    By on February 4, 2009

    Scene from 'Coraline' In this day and age of CGI-assisted animation, you have to admire the stubborn tenacity (or is that outright insanity?) of those...

  • Out for Blood

    By on January 28, 2009

    Liam Neeson: 'Taken' If you're going to run off to Paris and get kidnapped, you had better hope that your dad is a former secret...

  • Afterbirth

    By on January 14, 2009

    Let's face facts -- a horror movie being released in January is a bad omen. But The Unborn boasts a writer/director with a track record...