This adaptation of Nick Flynn’s acclaimed memoir Another Bull__ Night in Suck City holds on to its poetry, although the profanity-laced title had to go.
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Act of Valor: Trained SEALs
This geopolitical action film, starring active-duty Navy commandos, clarifies the U.S. mission abroad: to save our country by blowing stuff up GREAT.
Wanderlust: Nudists and Jennifer Aniston, Though Not in That Order
There are good movies, and then there are good-for-February movies. Wanderlust is one of them.
Undefeated: Oscar Night Lights?
This uplifting saga about a football team from depressed North Memphis is up for a Best Documentary prize. Does it earn its nomination?
The Secret World of Arrietty: Little Heroes, But Big Emotions, In Another Studio Ghibli Triumph
The latest from the Japanese animation studio brings to life a hidden world of tiny creatures who take refuge in the walls and nooks of people’s homes.
Who is the Victor in This Means War? Not the Viewer
Technically, movies don’t give off a scent, but This Means War is so smarmy that it seems to reek of cheap cologne. It features a competition between a lonely divorced dad (Tom Hardy) and a loudmouthed Lothario (Chris Pine) …
The Vow: How Many More Movie Romances Does Rachel McAdams Have In Her?
We make this vow to The Vow: We will rewatch you when sick on the couch.
In Darkness: How a Swindler Became a Schindler
Agnieszka Holland’s Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of a Polish-Catholic sewer worker and thief who kept Jews alive in Nazi-occupied Lvov
Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy?
In this efficient spy chase film, the star plays a CIA rogue who messes with Ryan Reynolds’ pretty mind
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island—The Rock’s Latest Family Role
A majestic mountain of muscles, Dwayne Johnson is fully capable of using his pectorals to catapult small objects hither and yon, a skill he demonstrates with berries in the blithely idiotic family movie Journey 2: The Mysterious …
The Innkeepers: More Clerks Than Spooks
In The Innkeepers, writer/director Ti West’s first true project since his acclaimed 80′s retro horror film The House of the Devil, a pair of likeable slacker clerks, Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy), are left in charge …
The Woman in Black: Harry Potter and the Spooky Mansion
Daniel Radcliffe, sprung from Hogwarts, is menaced by another evil spirit armed with Voldemortian intentions and some killer sound effects
Big Miracle: A Slice of 80s Nostalgia, With a Side of Whale
This energetic family movie, about a pod of whales trapped in Alaskan ice, is less insipid than it looks.
