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Body of Lies

Soon you'll be able to add "Body of Lies" to that list of war-on-terror movies that almost nobody has wanted to see, even though it's ...

Indy.com Staff

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Is the current crop of British comedy geniuses selling out? No, not really. But you'd be forgiven for thinking so on the face of it. ...

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Blindness

'Blindness' is visionless The blind literally lead the blind -- to hell and back -- in the pretentious, preposterous allegory "Blindness." An unnamed disease afflicts ...

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Nights in Rodanthe

The last time we saw Richard Gere and Diane Lane, in 2002's "Unfaithful," they were running off together after covering up Gere's murder of Lane's ...

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The Lucky Ones

Soldiers might be clamoring to re-enlist if they all saw as much action in their homecoming as the threesome in "The Lucky Ones." Returning to ...

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Miracle at St. Anna

In Spike Lee's long, eclectic career, "Miracle at St. Anna" is easily his most technically ambitious film. After acclaimed character dramas ("Malcolm X," "Do the ...

joe.shearer

Lakeview Terrace

A neighbor from hell It's odd that in "Lakeview Terrace," we don't see a lake. We certainly don't see a terrace with a view of ...

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Burn After Reading

"Burn After Reading," the latest offering in the eclectic filmography of Joel and Ethan Coen, is not to be taken seriously, and it's certainly not ...

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Righteous Kill

It's not that the crime thriller "Righteous Kill" is spectacularly awful. It's just thoroughly mediocre -- a standard police procedural, a long episode of "Law ...

Christopher Lloyd

Transsiberian

Movie stops at all the cliches, but the trip is worth the fare There's a long tradition of thrillers about American tourists who get caught ...

joe.shearer

Frozen River

You can cry me a 'River' Every once in awhile you see a film that truly reminds you of the best and the worst of ...

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Bangkok Dangerous

Nicolas Cage is back to his dreary former self -- you know, the guy who starred a decade ago in such downers as "8MM" and ...

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Indy.com Staff

Baghead

Greta Gerwig has been called the "It Girl" of the mumblecore genre, and it's easy to see why. In "Baghead" -- which epitomizes such ultra-low-budget ...

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Tropic Thunder

'Tropic Thunder," Ben Stiller's extravaganza of a Hollywood satire, couldn't be any more "inside-baseball" if it contained references to the infield fly rule and Rule ...

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Death Race

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Jason Statham plays a guy chased by a bunch of bad guys, and fights them off both ...

joe.shearer

Tropic Thunder

Though it's full of bombast, "Tropic Thunder" manages to locate that elusive point of "going too far," erase it, draw another one five miles down ...

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Pineapple Express

Hollywood sure loves its stoners, and that tradition continues in "Pineapple Express," a talky, scattershot, but imaginative rose bush of an action/comedy: We'll suffer its ...

Indy.com Staff

Pineapple Express

Judd Apatow has flooded the market with enough raunch-with-heart movies that we have probably reached the place where we can start labeling them "major" and ...

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The Wackness

Like "Definitely, Maybe" from earlier this year, the coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness" asks us to dig deep within our nostalgia wells and reminisce about the ...

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Step Brothers

How do I adequately describe how much I hated "Step Brothers"? But before you cry foul about how I don't understand the genius of Will ...

Indy.com Staff

The Children of Huang Shi

Fact, in the movies, is a lot like a license. It allows a director like Roger Spottiswoode, whose "The Children of Huang Shi" is based ...

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Reprise

For all their emphasis on the youth market, American movies have never done a good job of portraying actual youth. The idea that young equals ...

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The Happening

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years to live" -- Albert Einstein, quoted on ...

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Wanted

Sometimes it's nice to sit back, relax and let the movie kick in the side of your head. That's what happens with "Wanted," a genuine ...

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The Strangers

My mistake was to read the interview with the director. At the beginning of my review of "The Strangers," I typed my star rating instinctively: ...

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The Fall

'The Fall," a whacked-out fairy tale for grown-ups, is as stunning in its beauty as it is in its lack of logic. Indian writer-director Tarsem ...

joe.shearer

Sex and the City: The Movie

Click here to take the Sex in the City quiz! I'm willing to bet that when New Line signed writer/director Michael Patrick King to write ...

Christopher Lloyd

Sex and the City: The Movie

'Should we get you a diamond?" "No, just get me a really big closet." In a "Sex and the City" world, that's the most romantic ...

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Then She Found Me

Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her directorial debut with "Then She Found Me," in which she also stars and receives a writing credit. It's no ...

Jenny  Elig

The Life Before Her Eyes

'The Life Before Her Eyes' is just as beautiful as its lead actresses, Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. Based on the Laura Kasischke novel ...

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