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Review: The Lincoln Lawyer

Slick legal mystery plays like an above-average TV crime show pilot
As nondescript as its title, Brad Furman's slick legal mystery, adapted from a Michael Connelly novel, plays like an above-average TV pilot until it gets greedy and runs 20 minutes too long, with a few too many endings.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 17, 2011

Review: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

McConaughey is less miser than sex-addicted shithead
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore must have a pathological hatred of the winter holidays.
By BRETT MICHEL | April 28, 2009

Anti-depressant cinema

The screen offers relief from a world of woe
The screen offers relief from a world of woe
By PETER KEOUGH | January 09, 2009

Rock and rote

Three decades in, AC/DC’s conservatism pays off
Three decades in, AC/DC’s conservatism pays off
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | November 10, 2008

Ghost Town

A fill-in-the-blanks, DOA comedy
As a comedian, Ricky Gervais is like an endangered panda: he can perform only under specific circumstances.
By CHRIS WANGLER | September 16, 2008

Fool's Gold

Ever shirtless, ever silly
As for Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, they should have a sit-down with their agents.
By TOM MEEK | February 13, 2008

Primary concerns

2008 releases offer campaign reform
The last thing people are looking for when they go to the movies is a reminder of the political crapola they are trying to escape.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 28, 2007

Notes from underground

Celebrating independents at the HFA
Although it hardly seems likely in a summer of noisy, box-office-busting sequels, independent cinema thrives, after a fashion, in America.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 27, 2007

Bodies: Billy Costa and Jenny Johnson

By TAMARA WIEDER | January 16, 2007

We are Marshall

More than a football film
In 1970, a plane carrying the Marshall University football team crashed, killing all on board. Watch the trailer for We are Marshall (QuickTime)
By TOM MEEK | December 20, 2006

Failure To Launch

More Zooey Deschanel, please.
The rumor is that Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker didn’t get along while making this film, and it shows.
By BROOKE HOLGERSON | March 07, 2006

New to DVD on January 17, 2006

Junebug , Enron , Lord of War , Two for the Money , and more.
With the possible exception of the days of Soviet Social Realism, people have gone to the movies to escape the daily grind, not relive it.
By | January 19, 2006