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By | January 01, 0001

Review: Abduction

Beautiful but boring
Taylor Lautner plays characters with mysterious origins and makes them boring.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 27, 2011

Conventional wisdom
In his fourth film, aspiring maverick director Miguel Arteta ( Chuck & Buck ; Youth in Revolt ) follows Capra deeper into the cornfield with this slyly complex and broadly comic farce about innocence, corruption, and the gray areas between.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 16, 2011

Review: You Again

Weaver, Curtis are solid enough (also Betty White is in this movie).
In this wildly uneven comedy from Andy Flickman, sleek PR exec Marni (Kristen Bell) has finally buried her geeky high-school history.
By ALICIA POTTER | September 28, 2010

Review: Avatar

Machine dreams: James Cameron plays games
For someone who's determined to reduce all experience to mechanical reproduction, James Cameron sure hates machines.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 18, 2009

By | January 01, 0001

Review: Ghostbusters: The Video Game

It has the tools, it has the talent
Call it fanboyism, call it a Pavlovian response, call it what you want — Ghostbusters: The Video Game made me smile.
By MITCH KRPATA | July 07, 2009

Baby Mama

Largely laugh-barren
Not even SNL’s whipsmart Tina Fey and Amy Poehler can save writer/director Michael McCuller’s pregnancy comedy from its fate as another condescending, self-congratulatory fantasy of maternal bliss.
By ALICIA POTTER | April 23, 2008

Alien vs. Predator: Requiem

Genre futility
What a fitting subtitle for Fox’s latest offense to fans of not one but two venerable sci-fi properties.
By BRETT MICHEL | December 31, 2007

Snow Cake

Marc Evan's mawkish soap opera
The real Oscar candidate here is Alan Rickman as a restrained and sardonic stranger with a mystery past.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 29, 2007

The girls of summer

The season for blockbusters, sequels, and . . . great roles for women?
It’s summer, so no one’s surprised at the onslaught of sequels, adaptations, or even movies based on toys. But films with Oscar-caliber women’s roles?
By PETER KEOUGH | May 18, 2007