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The Road

 

Published 37 hours ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee Review: A father and son are transformed into homeless scavengers by a cataclysmic event: the destruction of the world. The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen as a ...

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon

 

Published 7 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner Review: Swooning tweens of all ages and sexes will work themselves into a lather deciding whether to join Team Edward (that's sometimes-shirtless vampire Edward Cullen, ...

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2012

 

Published 14 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: John Cusack, Danny Glover Review: Beware 2012, which works the dubious miracle of almost matching Transformers 2 for sheer, cynical, mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity. We probably are ...

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Broken Embraces

 

Published 14 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Penélope Cruz Review: You may get whiplash following the twists and turns in the latest wild ride from Spain?s Pedro Almodóvar. But it hurts so good. Broken Embraces is the fourth film in ...

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Me and Orson Welles

 

Published 14 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay Review: What do you say about a movie that proves Zac Efron can act, introduces a master thespian in Christian McKay and launches a charm assault that is damn near irresistible? ...

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Pirate Radio

 

Published 14 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Rhys Ifans, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy, Janua... Review: Rock & roll history is being retraced in this appealingly ramshackle comedy from Love Actually writer-director Richard Curtis. Set in ...

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

 

Published 14 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Nicholas Cage, Eva Mendes Review: There are few things more entertaining than watching Nicolas Cage go bug-fuck in a movie that knows how to present the spectacle in style. To my list of fave Cage meltdowns — ...

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

 

Published 14 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray Review: Maybe it?s a coincidence that two gifted young filmmakers — Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze (both born in 1969) — have latched on to kid lit and puppets for ...

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The Box

 

Published 21 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella Review: I'm not ready to give up on Richard Kelly and his questing intelligence as a filmmaker. Memories of Donnie Darko stay strong, no matter how much Kelly's focus came ...

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The Men Who Stare at Goats

 

Published 21 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor Review: It's hard to resist a satire, even when it wobbles, that insists the most unbelievable parts are the most true. If you always thought the men who run ...

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The Messenger

 

Published 21 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Samantha Morton Review: If anyone asks you where the best and brightest new directors are coming from, point to Oren Moverman, whose vividly touching and vital debut feature signals the ...

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Precious

 

Published 21 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey Review: When I tell people how good this movie is — and I can't shut up about it — they flash me the stink eye. As in "Yeah, right, like I need to sink into a ...

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This Is It

 

Published 28 days ago at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Michael Jackson Review: Michael Jackson's perfectionism fails him in This Is It, and we're all the better for it. What we see in this unmissable two-hour concert film, culled from 120 hours of digital-video footage of ...

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Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

 

Published 10/22/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: John C. Riley, Salma Hayek, Michael Ceveris Review: Do we really need another vampire movie? Well, this one is based on a popular tweener series of a dozen books by British writer Darren Shan. Director and co-writer ...

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Amelia

 

Published 10/22/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor Review: The aerial photography in this biopic looks slick, as does two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank as the rangy pioneer aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who went missing in 1937 ...

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Law Abiding Citizen

 

Published 10/15/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Viola Davis Review: Many of you won't see any reason to bitch about a savage revenge drama that keeps the bodies piling up. As a DVD rental to watch while scarfing pizza and beer, there's not ...

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Antichrist

 

Published 10/15/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg Review: Depending on your reaction to the cinematic outrages perpetrated by Danish director Lars von Trier (remember Dogville?), you might want to add or subtract two stars from the ...

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Where the Wild Things Are

 

Published 10/15/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, Jame... Review: Forget every sugary kid-stuff cliché Hollywood shoves at you. The defiantly untamed Where the Wild Things Are is a raw and exuberant ...

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Couples Retreat

 

Published 10/8/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Faizon Love, Jean Reno Review: A toddler pees at the start of the mirthless mess that is Couples Retreat and poops just before the end credits roll. How fitting. You too will want to ...

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Bronson

 

Published 10/8/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Tom Hardy Review: Don't go in expecting a biopic on the Death Wish star, though I'd pay to see that. This Charles Bronson, born Michael Petersen, is a British artist and career criminal whose emulation of the legendary ...

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Whip It

 

Published 10/1/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Juli... Review: After giving the performance of her career in HBO's Grey Gardens, Drew Barrymore tackles another killer challenge: directing. The empowerment ...

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Zombieland

 

Published 10/1/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin Review: Guilty-pleasure movies should not be underestimated. I had a scary-fun-house blast at Zombieland, in which studly Woody Harrelson, nerdy Jesse ...

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A Serious Man

 

Published 10/1/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg Review: The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are getting personal. They shot their new film in suburban Minnesota, where they grew up as sons of Jewish academics. But if you're expecting something ...

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An Education

 

Published 10/1/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina Review: Schoolgirl Jenny is 16 and a virgin. Sophisticated David is twice her age and ready to pounce. The time is 1961. The place is England just before it learned to ...

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Education

 

Published 10/1/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina Review: Schoolgirl Jenny is 16 and a virgin. Sophisticated David is twice her age and ready to pounce. The time is 1961. The place is England just before it learned to ...

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The Invention of Lying

 

Published 10/1/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill Review: For its first stingingly funny half hour, The Invention of Lying had me thinking that Ricky Gervais had finally found a way to bring his indisputable ...

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Paranormal Activity

 

Published 9/29/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat Review: With a $15,000 budget too puny to empty a petty-cash drawer, the no-frills Paranormal Activity comes packed with thrills. Oren Peli's movie from nowhere owes much to The Blair ...

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Capitalism: A Love Story

 

Published 9/24/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Review: The Pirates of the Caribbean have nothing on the buccaneers of Wall Street, and the banks and insurance companies that merrily loot America with the help of our elected officials. You know this. I know this. ...

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Bright Star

 

Published 9/17/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider Review: What do you say about a 25-year-old British poet who died? If you're Jane Campion and the poet is John Keats, you can go with the love letters Keats (Ben Whishaw) ...

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The Boys Are Back

 

Published 9/17/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Clive Owen Review: He can brood like nobody's business (Closer, Children of Men) and kill with impunity (The International, Shoot 'Em Up), but Clive Owen cuts bone-deep as sportswriter Joe Warr, the widowed dad of two ...

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Jennifer's Body

 

Published 9/17/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried Review: Hot! Hot! Hot! That's obvious in a high school flick with Megan Fox as Jennifer, a sex bomb who turns she-demon and behaves like the heartless bitch she always was except for killing ...

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The Informant!

 

Published 9/17/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Tony Hale Review: Can you twist facts into a comic pretzel and still come out on the salty side of truth? To judge by The Informant! — the nonfiction story ...

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Crude

 

Published 9/10/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Review: Here?s a powerhouse of a documentary that makes you feel mad as hell and unwilling to take it anymore. Filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost) is calling out Chevron for despoiling the Ecuadorean rainforest ...

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The September Issue

 

Published 9/10/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington Review: R.J. Cutler has crafted a subversively entertaining documentary detailing the blood, sweat and tears Vogue editor Anna Wintour exacted from her staff to produce the mammoth 2007 ...

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

 

Published 9/10/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Michael Douglas, Jesse Metcalfe, Amber Tamblyn Review: Michael Douglas is the only life in this dull party playing a politically motivated prosecutor who may be tampering with evidence to boost his conviction record. ...

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9

 

Published 9/10/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover Review: If looks were all, 9 would have earned a better rating from me. This computer-animated fantasy — a feature-length expansion of the 11-minute short that ...

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All About Steve

 

Published 9/3/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, Thomas Haden Church Review: I don't have much to say about this unwatchable, unbearably unfunny farce in which Sandra Bullock hits the lowest point of her career as delusional, demented ...

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Extract

 

Published 9/3/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig Review: Right in time for the economic downturn comes Extract, a smart and potently funny workplace comedy about running a small business just as small businesses get routinely ...

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Big Fan

 

Published 8/20/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Patton Oswalt, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz Review: Comedian Patton Oswalt triumphantly nails every comic and dramatic nuance as Paul Aufiero, a New York Giants obsessive who has long ago moved from fan to ...

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Passing Strange

 

Published 8/20/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Elsa Davis, Daniel Breaker Review: In rethinking the Tony-winning 2008 rock musical Passing Strange for the screen, director Spike Lee made sure to do the right thing: not fuck up what worked like gangbusters onstage. ...

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Taking Woodstock

 

Published 8/20/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Henry Goodman, Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy Review: Bright idea having the indisputably great director Ang Lee take us back to the garden to find the grit, grace and innocence that marked the Woodstock ...

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Inglourious Basterds

 

Published 8/20/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, BJ Novak, Mike Meyers Review: In the bunker of Quentin Tarantino's hypnotically fired-up imagination, World War II features Brad Pitt scalping Nazis, G.I. Jews with a flair for torture porn, the ...

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The Time Traveler's Wife

 

Published 8/13/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams Review: I'd watch the vibrant Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in anything, but The Time Traveler's Wife is pushing it. Based on the chick-lit bestseller by Audrey Niffenegger, the movie is ...

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Ponyo

 

Published 8/13/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Noah Cyrus, Frankie Jonas Review: Outside of Disney/Pixar magic, you may wonder why critics consider animation an art. Wonder no more. Just see Ponyo, from Japanese animé genius Hayao Miyazaki. Ponyo falls a ...

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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

 

Published 8/7/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Le... Review: I don't know what to say about the acting, writing and directing in G.I. Joe because I couldn't find any. There were scads of pretty people ...

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Cold Souls

 

Published 8/6/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn Review: You'll laugh till it hurts at Cold Souls, a comedy of shocking gravity starring Paul Giamatti as a neurotic actor named Paul Giamatti. He is rehearsing Uncle Vanya and ...

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It Might Get Loud

 

Published 8/6/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Jack White, the Edge, Jimmy Page Review: The guy who directed Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth changes it up by doing a doc about three guitar gods — Led Zep's Jimmy Page, U2's the Edge and the White Stripes' Jack ...

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Paper Heart

 

Published 8/6/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera Review: Enjoying this wondrous wisp of a something is easy, describing it is hard. Luckily, Charlyne Yi is an enchantress. I'd follow her anywhere. Maybe you saw her doing stand-up or acting ...

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Spread

 

Published 8/6/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Laura Linney Review: Young stud hits L.A. intending to screw his way upward by nailing rich cougars. Yes, we've been there — American Gigolo, Shampoo, Deuce Bigalow. Now Ashton Kutcher ...

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Julie & Julia

 

Published 8/6/2009 at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews

Starring: Chris Messina, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Jane L... Review: The ideal recipe has a special ingredient that can lift a dish from meh to memorable. Meryl Streep — at her brilliant, beguiling best ...

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