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Reviews
Parental Guidance: Should Be Rated R for Rotten
Billy Crystal and Bette Midler as fun-loving grandparents? On paper that sounds good. On screen it’s painful.
Quartet: The Least Exotic Country Retirement Home
Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay and Pauline Collins are up to their usual fine standard, but Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut about retirees putting on a show to help save their retirement home lacks bite
Matt Damon’s Promised Land: What the Frack!?
The star and cowriter takes on the natural-gas industry, and everyone loses
On the Road: Sex, Drugs and Kristen Stewart
Walter Salles’ film of the Beatnik novel has cool moments but remains stillborn, like a diorama in a Kerouac museum
The Impossible: Naomi Watts Keeps This Disaster Film Afloat
The technical and emotional marvel from the Spanish filmmaking team of Juan Antonio Bayona and Sergio G. Sanchez hits you like a tidal wave
David Chase’s Not Fade Away: A Musical Memoir from the Sopranos Boss
The King of HBO drama hits a flat note in his evocation of the Jersey ’60s. Good thing he brought James Gandolfini along for the trip.
Apatow’s This Is 40: Way Too Many Scenes From a Marriage
Writer-director Judd Apatow’s meandering “sort-of” sequel to Knocked Up starts strong and funny but falls flat in its second hour
Amour: A Love Story for the Aged
Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant are incandescent in Michael Haneke’s fable of immortal devotion
The Guilt Trip: The Return of the Funny Lady
Streisand hits the road with Seth Rogen in a charming holiday movie about mothers and sons
Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Picks the Wrong Week for a Thriller About a Mass Killing
The star’s new crime drama gets undermined by the suddenly dour pre-Christmas mood—and by not being a very good movie
Save the Date: Everyone Loves Lizzy Caplan (Including Us)
An amiable romantic comedy starring Lizzy Caplan and Martin Starr goes up against The Hobbit. We feel sorry for it
Big Boi’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors Is Visionary Hip-Hop
The once and possibly future OutKast rapper shines on his sophomore solo album