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Cast makes ‘Admission’ likable, but story earns an average grade
Friday, March 22, 2013
It’s not a particularly satisfying comedy, but thanks to the cast and some of the odd directions it takes, “Admission” is an intensely likable one.
Blood relationships make for stylish horror
Friday, March 22, 2013
There’s a suggestion of vampirism in the title of “Stoker.” The stylish chiller shares its name with the author of “Dracula,” but its fixation on blood moves in a different direction — deposits, not withdrawals.
‘Croods’ is warmhearted, well-crafted cave-dweller tale
Friday, March 22, 2013
Skip past the lame title and weary Stone Age premise. “The Croods” is the first pleasant surprise of spring, a gorgeous kids’ cartoon with heart and wit, if not exactly a firm grasp of paleontology.
Girls-gone-wild tale is sad and appalling, but kinda sexy
Friday, March 22, 2013
As writer and director of “Spring Breakers,” Harmony Korine wants us to be appalled and aroused, hypnotized and titillated. He wants to satirize the debauchery of girls gone wild while simultaneously reveling in it. And damned if he doesn’t pull it off.
NEW YORK
'Oz' works magic for second week in row at box office
Sunday, March 17, 2013
“Oz the Great and Powerful” is living up to its name at the box office, taking in another $42.2 million in its second weekend at movie theaters.
Veteran projectionist still threading film at mini theater
Sunday, March 17, 2013
In 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the White House and the Nazis were goose-stepping through Europe. In North Adams, Mass., 9-year-old Jerry Aratare was sitting in the dark in one of those big old movie theaters with plush seats and a mile-long candy counter in the lobby.
After gripping beginning ‘The Call’ gets disconnected
Friday, March 15, 2013
Rare is the thriller that goes as completely and utterly wrong as “The Call” does at almost precisely the one-hour mark.
‘Burt Wonderstone’ is incredible waste of a talented cast
Friday, March 15, 2013
The only incredible thing about “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” is the way it makes Steve Carell so thoroughly and irreparably unlikable.
Regular-guy Carell busier than ever outside 'The Office'
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Steve Carell's new comedy, “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” which opens Friday, is one of five movies he has coming out in 2013.
LOS ANGELES
‘Oz’ prequel has magical weekend with $80.3M haul
Sunday, March 10, 2013
“Oz the Great and the Powerful” clicked with moviegoers over the weekend, with a box office of $80.3 million.
20 years later, River Phoenix’s last movie premieres in Miami
Saturday, March 9, 2013
“Dark Blood” made its U.S. premiere at the Miami International Film Festival this week, a testament to the endurance of 80-year-old director George Sluizer, who almost died before the film was completed, and a tribute to Phoenix’s timeless charisma.
SCHENECTADY
No plans yet for ‘Pines’ premiere
Friday, March 8, 2013
“The Place Beyond the Pines” is coming to Schenectady on April 12, but it’s not clear if it will debut here before its wide release.
Story of justice gone awry revisited in documentary 'West of Memphis'
Friday, March 8, 2013
The saga of the “West Memphis Three” reaches a thrilling if somewhat anticlimactic conclusion in “West of Memphis,” a documentary financed by Peter (“Lord of the Rings”) Jackson and directed by Amy Berg.
Plodding ‘Oz’ tells the story of how con man became Wizard
Friday, March 8, 2013
‘Oz the Great and Powerful” aims for nostalgia in older viewers who grew up on “The Wizard of Oz” and still hold the classic dear while simultaneously enchanting a newer, younger audience. It never really accomplishes either successfully.
Love story weakens tale of two ‘emperors’
Friday, March 8, 2013
“Emperor”offers an uneasy mix of schmaltz, angst, horror and intrigue.
