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Reviews
Dream House: You Wouldn’t Want to Live There
Director Jim Sheridan is just going through the motions in this misfiring psychodrama
Are You There, Audiences? It’s Me, Margaret
Anna Paquin is spectacular in Kenneth Lonergan’s long-delayed follow-up to You Can Count On Me
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 50/50: Cancer Lite
This comedy doesn’t live up to its killer premise and affecting backstory, despite the lead actor’s beautifully judged performance
What’s Your Number?: Neither a Bridesmaid nor a Bride
Even the gifted Anna Faris can’t elevate this dopey rom-com
Dolphin Tale: The Winter of Our Heart’s Content
An all-ages tribute to a differently abled dolphin
Andrew Haigh’s Weekend: Sex, No Lies & Audiotape
This intimate indie is one of the loveliest romances of the year
I Don’t Know How She Does It, but Bagels Trump Kegels
Sarah Jessica Parker is a harried yet glamorous mother in this adaptation of Allison Pearson’s best seller
Warrior: The Pugilists Are Restless
Compelling acting puts up a fight against some plausibility issues in this story of a mixed-martial-arts family feud
Soderbergh’s Contagion: Don’t Touch Gwyneth Paltrow!
With Contagion, the real fear comes when you leave the theater. The film dramatizes, with brisk ruthlessness, the dangers of touching anyone who may be infected — or anything he or she may have touched
Midnight in Paris. And 2 a.m. And 4 a.m.
Serge Gainsbourg comes back to life in a dreamy biopic
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Is a Better Idea than You’d Think
It’s kind of like ‘The Big Chill’, without the funeral, clothes or ethical restraint
Detective Dee: A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami
Tsui Hark’s latest is an action spectacle, a tender-tragic love story and has enough deadly political scheming to fill a Gaddafi playbook