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'Star Trek' No. 1 film despite disappointing opening
Sunday, May 19, 2013
“Star Trek: Into Darkness” has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it’s not setting any light-speed records with a debut that’s lower than the studio’s expectations.
Whisky adds light note of hope, edgy humor to latest Loach film
Friday, May 17, 2013
A barrel of whisky would usually spell doom for the working-class blokes who always find their way into Ken Loach films. But it is redemption that the director has in mind in the unexpectedly warm, hopeful and humorous brew of “The Angels’ Share.”
Shannon is deadly cool as real-life hit man in ‘Iceman’
Friday, May 17, 2013
Michael Shannon plays real life hit man Richard Kuklinski in "The Iceman," a movie that compares favorably with "Goodfellas."
Boldly go to latest installment of long ‘Star Trek’ saga
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Despite its baleful title, “Star Trek Into Darkness” is fleet-footed and never far from a jovial wink at the audience. It opens with a stupendous chase sequence that out-Spielbergs “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
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Strong ‘Gatsby’ debut can’t knock out ‘Iron Man 3’ from top
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Leonard DiCaprio’s “The Great Gatsby” partied like it was the Roaring ’20s with a $51.1 million debut that made it a surprisingly strong runner-up to comic-book blockbuster “Iron Man 3.”
Adaptation of Fitzgerald classic 'Great Gatsby' is all glitter and no soul
Friday, May 10, 2013
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" lacks the sense of melancholy and longing that emanated from the famous novel’s pages.
Whispers of soul fill lyrical ‘Wonder’
Friday, May 10, 2013
Love gained and love lost are the subjects of Terrence Malick's “To the Wonder,” a film of simple themes, minimal dialogue and eloquent imagery.
Title 'No One Lives' tells you all you need to know
Friday, May 10, 2013
“No One Lives” gives away its biggest, best secret (killers have messed with the wrong guy) far too early for its own good.
‘Peeples’ formula is familiar but comedy still enjoyable
Friday, May 10, 2013
‘Peeples” is an African-American “Meet the Parents” that slips funnyman Craig Robinson into the Ben Stiller role. And formulaic or not, it’s funny.
There were no summer blockbusters until ‘Jaws’
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
There was a time when there were no summer blockbusters.
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‘Iron Man 3,’ Downey are superheroes for Hollywood
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Iron Man reigns as the standard-bearer of Hollywood superheroes with a $175.3 million domestic opening weekend for his latest sequel and an overseas haul of a half-billion dollars in less than two weeks.
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‘Iron Man 3’ has huge overseas debut before U.S. release
Sunday, April 28, 2013
“Iron Man 3” was the heavy lifter at theaters overseas with a colossal debut abroad that overshadowed a gang of mercenary bodybuilders in a sleepy pre-summer weekend at the domestic box office.
‘Mud’ is an exotic slice of backwater Southern life
Friday, April 26, 2013
The cinema’s leading purveyor of Southern Gothic, Jeff Nichols, hands Matthew McConaughey his latest tour de force turn in “Mud,” a down and dirty if entirely-too-long mythic melodrama in the “Tobacco Road” tradition.
Pace too slow, cast too big to let 'The Big Wedding' get rolling
Friday, April 26, 2013
Adapted from a 2006 French comedy, and boasting a cross-generational cast of daunting and not-so daunting stature, “The Big Wedding” throws up a messy web of relationships, a tangle of siblings and spouses, lovers and lunatics, intersecting in illicit and illogical ways.
For viewers, director’s onslaught renders true story all pain and no gain
Friday, April 26, 2013
Michael Bay’s true-crime caper “Pain & Gain” lacks the visual-effects mayhem and sci-fi cacophony of his “Transformers” blockbusters, yet the movie uses all the shock and awe and noise and bluster the director has in his utterly unsubtle arsenal.
