SOMETHING BORROWED
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 103 minutes |
Forget this often crass effort about the double-headed love gymnastics involving BFFs in the Big Apple. It’s just not all that appealing a rom-com…
Posted on May 6, 2011 by Elias Savada
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 120 minutes |
While the film version of Sara Gruen’s best-selling 2006 novel aims for prestige, there’s something up there on the screen that is telling us—not necessarily in a bad way—date flick!
Posted on April 21, 2011 by Elias Savada
YOUR HIGHNESS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 102 minutes |
Set in medieval times “Your Highness” sports considerable non-royal dialogue more appropriately found in today’s gutter…
Posted on April 8, 2011 by Elias Savada
LIMITLESS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 105 minutes |
The ending has loads of leverage, and the film has plenty of moxie. Nice ride!
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Elias Savada
BATTLE LOS ANGELES
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 116 minutes |
While we all thought the City of Angels was in ruins by the end of last year’s undernourished “Skyline,” apparently the real attack will start in the near future…
Posted on March 10, 2011 by Elias Savada
BEASTLY
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 86 minutes |
Pushed back from a release originally schedule for last July, this should wash out past New York harbor for most of us in a week or two…
Posted on March 3, 2011 by Elias Savada
SANCTUM
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 109 minutes |
James Cameron may be the king of the cinematic world, but plastering his name all over the trailers and posters promoting this film doesn’t change one obvious thing about it: It stinks…
Posted on February 4, 2011 by Elias Savada
THE MECHANIC
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 92 minutes |
In the end, it’s Statham’s performance as the droll, emotionless workaholic that powers the film forward, probably enough that a sequel wouldn’t be out of the question…
Posted on January 29, 2011 by Elias Savada
NO STRINGS ATTACHED
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 103 minutes |
We don’t have a great film here, but it is certainly an enjoyable one. Frisky, well timed, and sweet to the edge of socially acceptable cuteness…
Posted on January 23, 2011 by Elias Savada
THE GREEN HORNET
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 119 minutes |
All the buzz in the world is not going to make the latest incarnation of the beloved 75-year-old radio/serial/comic book legend a fond memory for many viewers this month…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by Elias Savada
THE DILEMMA
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 112 minutes |
The only mark of inventive direction here are a half-dozen visual tricks that embellish a character’s lies as representational truth…
Posted on January 13, 2011 by Elias Savada
COUNTRY STRONG
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 112 minutes |
At its best, “Country Strong” is country music served up on a lukewarm platter this wintry season. Wait for the rental; hopefully the DVD will have more music, too…
Posted on January 8, 2011 by Elias Savada
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (2010)
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 93 minutes |
The pitch to remake this 18th century literary classic was probably four words: “Gulliver’s Travels” Jack Black. No adjectives, no adverbs, and, most of all, no imagination…
Posted on December 25, 2010 by Elias Savada
CASINO JACK
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 108 minutes |
“Casino Jack” is another in a parade of breezy cautionary tales, a flippant exposé of politics gone bad…
Posted on December 23, 2010 by Elias Savada
THE FIGHTER
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 114 minutes |
It doesn’t take long before you get into the mesmerizing ebb and flow of “The Fighter,” a blue collar tour-de-force featuring incredibly rhythmic performances, a riveting narrative, and taut direction…
Posted on December 20, 2010 by Elias Savada
