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SCRE4M: Meta Boo!

> Watch It At Home; The thrills are so postmodern, they don’t seem to be happening in the theater. When the original Scream arrived in 1996, the slaughtering-the-teenagers genre was already old enough to drive; the ...

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LIMITED RELEASES: “Queen to Play,” “Ceremony” and “Meet Monica Velour”

> Today, 3 films from first-time directors: Caroline Bottaro’s marvelous QUEEN TO PLAY is, in a sense, a sports movie. We have the out-of-nowhere player whose newly-discovered talent shakes up her whole life, the wi...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Save the Date”

> Michael Mohan’s SAVE THE DATE, which premiered this afternoon at Sundance, doesn’t earn its points from an original premise. It concerns 2 divergent sisters, Sarah (Lizzy Caplan) and Beth (Alison Brie), but mostly...

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THE CONSPIRATOR: Court In Session

> Watch It At Home: Scrupulously accurate, to a fault. In an era that so recently gave us “The Kennedys,” possibly the worst piece of pop culture history ever produced for American television, it seems downrig...

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HOP: Easter Egg Over Easy

> Watch It At Home People complain that Hollywood doesn’t take risks, but Universal went and hired the director of Alvin and the Chipmunks to make a movie about a musical-minded, free-spirit digitally animated character w...

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THE BIJOU: “Submarine”

> Worth A Ticket: A teen movie unlike any other. Richard Ayoade’s emotionally rich SUBMARINE is shaping up as one of the sadder stories of the indie boxoffice season. It was greeted rapturously at the Toronto...

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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: Not So Big Top

> Watch It At Home; A circus story that’s not the greatest show in the multiplex. Sometimes even a small moment in a movie can typify how it’s gone wrong. There’s a scene fairly early in WATER FOR ELEPHA...

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“MIDNIGHT IN PARIS” : Ah, Paree!

> Worth A Ticket; A tasty croissant from Woody Allen. Woody Allen interrupts the opening credits of his new comedy MIDNIGHT IN PARIS to insert a montage of lovely Paris locations. I mention this because after more than 40...

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HANNA: Children’s Hour

> Worth a Ticket. HANNA may be the first movie not based on a graphic novel to feel like it is. Written by Seth Lochhead and David Farr (the first film for both) and directed by Joe Wright, it has the feel of a film conce...

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RIO: Cartoon Carnival

> Worth A Ticket; Birds Fly High Enough for Kids, and Adults Too. Click For More Reviews: THOR PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Animation has, over the past decade, passed beyond ...

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LIMITED RELEASE: “Beginners”

> Worth a Ticket: A funny, moving story about navigating the twists of life. Mike Mills’ BEGINNERS is about the fumble for love, the wrong turns and mistakes that can delay–although luckily not always p...

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SOMETHING BORROWED: The Weekend’s Not-Thor

> Watch it At Home; Something Acceptable. As romantic comedies with Kate Hudson go, SOMETHING BORROWED isn’t so bad. After her spectacular debut in Almost Famous, Hudson’s become something of a brand nam...

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THE BIJOU: “SUPER 8” – Spielberg Much?

> Watch It At Home: That’s MR. Spielberg To You JJ Abrams’ SUPER 8 is the Beatlemania of Steven Spielberg movies. Abrams is no doubt absolutely genuine in his reverence for classics from the 1970...

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LIMITED RELEASE: “Henry’s Crime”

> Watch It At Home: Petty larceny. Sometimes casting can be too good: Keanu Reeves playing a guy who pretty much sleepwalks through his own life is practically redundant. His whole style, from the very start o...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Bachelorette”

> Although Sundance still has several days to go, and surprises could spring up at any time (yesterday The Surrogate, a drama with John Hawkes as a man in an iron lung who decides to lose his virginity to a sex therapist played...

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SCRE4M: Meta Boo!

LIMITED RELEASES: “Queen to Play,” “Ceremony” and “Meet Monica Velour”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Save the Date”

THE CONSPIRATOR: Court In Session

HOP: Easter Egg Over Easy

THE BIJOU: “Submarine”

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: Not So Big Top

“MIDNIGHT IN PARIS” : Ah, Paree!

HANNA: Children’s Hour

RIO: Cartoon Carnival

LIMITED RELEASE: “Beginners”

SOMETHING BORROWED: The Weekend’s Not-Thor

THE BIJOU: “SUPER 8” – Spielberg Much?

LIMITED RELEASE: “Henry’s Crime”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Bachelorette”

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