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Review: Bad Teacher

All talk and no action
Both Bad Santa and the Bad Lieutenants (Keitel and Cage) were really bad, but they were entertaining. Cameron Diaz's Bad Teacher, Elizabeth, is neither.
By BRETT MICHEL | June 29, 2011

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Review: The Green Hornet

Seth, where is thy sting?
If The Green Hornet were a car, it would be less like the lethally loaded '65 black Chrysler Imperial driven by the film's heroes and more like the homonymous shitbox discontinued by Dodge in 1987.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 11, 2011

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Review: Knight and Day

Cruise's creepiness only adds to the role
With a mischievous grin, Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) gazes into the distrusting eyes of June Havens (Cameron Diaz), who’s spent the last 18 hours drugged unconscious, and explains why she’s not wearing her clothes.
By BRETT MICHEL | June 24, 2010

Review: Shrek Forever After

Far, Far Away meets It’s a Wonderful Life .
For his fourth outing, Shrek has entered a midlife crisis.
By BRETT MICHEL | May 21, 2010

Silly season

Spring pimps for summer
Now that the Oscars are over, let's get dumb.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 09, 2010

Review: The Box

David Kelly boxes himself in
First-semester social-science students would wince at the overreaching metaphors in Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly’s latest Rorschach test.
By CHRIS FARAONE | November 10, 2009

October lite

The outlook is still gloomy, but film finds time for childish things
We expected the vampires, the werewolves, the zombies, and the homicidal maniacs. Same thing with the android doubles, the alien abductors, the sexually abused pregnant teenager, the Apocalypse, and the post-Apocalypse. But kids' movies?
By PETER KEOUGH | September 17, 2009

Review: My Sister's Keeper

Not quite the sum of its parts
Nick Cassavetes ( The Notebook ) gives competent direction to this weepie of the highest order, and there's an eclectic cast headed by Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric, and Little Miss Sunshine, Abigail Breslin.
By TOM MEEK | July 01, 2009

Review: My Sister's Keeper

What Happens in Vegas

Clunky and predictable
Despite its aching predictability, Kutcher’s clunkiness, and Tom Vaughan’s jerky direction, the film and the couple actually grow on you — mostly thanks to Diaz.
By TOM MEEK | May 14, 2008

Crossword: ''For the bards''

Fry, fry my pretties!
Fry, fry my pretties!
By MATT JONES | January 02, 2008

It’s not brain surgery

Keep your head protected on trips to the hospital
Whew, don’t say that at Rhode Island Hospital these days or you might come home holding the upper part of your cranium in your hand. Trepan this, baby!
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 28, 2007

Kiss him deadly

Richard Kelly on The Box , the Jag, and the critics at Cannes
Bostonians flummoxed by the great whatsits of Richard Kelly’s vaguely Spillanean Southland Tales stand an outside chance of querying the puzzler himself.
By ROB NELSON | November 14, 2007

The Heartbreak Kid

Dragging out funny
The only honor the remake is likely to vie for is “most athletic sex scene” at the MTV Movie Awards. That, or “most audible queef.”
By BRETT MICHEL | October 03, 2007

Swamp gas

Shrek the Third gets bloated
Shrek has metastasized into a symptom of and metaphor for the entertainment industry and modern culture in general.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 16, 2007

Readers' picks 2007: Arts and Entertainment

Best bar, best gallery, best jukebox, best happy hour, and more
SPACE Gallery, Dock Fore, the White Heart, and more.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX STAFF | February 23, 2010

Spring loaded

Working out the kinks
It’s spring, and Hollywood has to get the kinks out of its system before it can focus on the business at hand: the sequels of summer.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 12, 2007

The Holiday

A safe box office bet
A reminder to all producers: alluding to iconic romantic comedies in a bid for legitimacy can be a dangerous game, even when you have appealing stars. Watch the trailer for The Holiday (QuickTime)
By BROOKE HOLGERSON | December 06, 2006

Earning his wings

The career of Delroy Lindo
Delroy Lindo is only 6’3”, but he plays a lot bigger on screen.
By RYAN STEWART | August 11, 2006

Oliver's army

History gets Stoned
While he refers to himself as a “dramatist” rather than a historian, Stone has positioned himself as Hollywood’s gatekeeper to America’s post-war past. Feel-good movie of the summer: Oliver Stone: from the Hollywood crackpot of JFK to the Republican sellout of World Trade Center. By Peter Keough Off-Center: Oliver Stone's trite take on 9/11. By Peter Keough
By PAUL BABIN | August 09, 2006

El Presidente

The career of Dan Hedaya
If there’s an extra hop in our step this week, it’s because we’re talking about Dan Hedaya, our top-tier, number-one, ultimate favorite character actor of all.
By RYAN STEWART | July 20, 2006