TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 93 minutes |
If I taught a film studies class, I would show “Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie” on the first day. This is a film that is worthy of study…
Posted on March 2, 2012 by Jessica Baxter
WE BOUGHT A ZOO
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 124 minutes |
Crowe’s emotional maturity is Benjamin Button, aging in reverse. Unfortunately, this means that “We Bought a Zoo” is an excruciating film for anyone not wearing rose-colored glasses…
Posted on December 23, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
YOUNG ADULT
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 94 minutes |
“Young Adult,” as it stands, is a slice-of-life piece about a beautiful lunatic who tries to ruin some lives, fails and carries on being loony…
Posted on December 16, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
THE MUPPETS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 98 minutes |
When it was time to play the music and light the lights, I got chills. But, at the end of the day, it was just a clip show…
Posted on November 23, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
BEING ELMO: A PUPPETEER’S JOURNEY
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 76 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! “Being Elmo” is a rare opportunity to watch what is essentially an entire career in fast motion…
Posted on October 21, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
THE THING (2011)
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 103 minutes |
In essence, “The Thing (2011)” is a big old pile of redundancy, wrapped up in flames and topped with a Ripley-shaped bow…
Posted on October 14, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
BOTS HIGH
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 83 minutes |
I don’t know whether to look forward to a future in which these kids are creating machines that will protect us and improve our quality of life, or fear their potential to bring about the robot apocalypse…
Posted on October 6, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
THE LAST CIRCUS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 107 minutes |
Barnum and Bailey take note: Hand-to-hand combat is the most entertaining clown context…
Posted on August 19, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
FINAL DESTINATION 5
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 92 minutes |
There are few things more fun than the wacky Rube Goldberg ways of Death’s Design…
Posted on August 12, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
SURROGATE VALENTINE
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 74 minutes |
2011 WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Why do film festivals insist on programming these self-important wankfests? When will this madness end? Won’t someone please think of the children?
Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 117 minutes |
In a time when comedies are mostly about outrageous one-upmanship, “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” just wants to tell a story about people falling in and out of love…
Posted on July 29, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
BELLFLOWER
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 106 minutes |
2011 FANTASIA FEST SELECTION! I suppose you could call the film an updated “Reality Bites,” only without the adorably optimistic notion that, somehow, things will turn out all right…
Posted on July 22, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
HORRIBLE BOSSES
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
The world was a better place before people were obsessed with making this year’s “The Hangover”…
Posted on July 8, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
This is a man who wears his heart on his sleeve but protects it with a thin candy shell of biting humor. By the end, we really know him. Trouble is, once you really get to know people, you might not like them as much…
Posted on June 24, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
DETENTION
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! “Detention” is also not so much a film as it is a list of things. Most of these things aren’t even that awesome…
Posted on June 9, 2011 by Jessica Baxter
