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Freaky Friday Review: A Fortune Cookie That Holds
A close read of 2003's Freaky Friday: Lindsay Lohan's band, Jamie Lee Curtis's comic turn, and why a small dessert carries the whole premise.
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Movie Reviews7.3/10
Lasse Hallström’s Gilbert Grape Finds Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp Adrift in Small-Town Iowa
A look back at Lasse Hallström's 1993 drama What's Eating Gilbert Grape, starring Johnny Depp and a 19-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio.
Movie Reviews4.7/10
Me, Myself & Irene: Carrey’s Split Personality, and a Joke That Wears Out
Me, Myself & Irene review: Jim Carrey's split-persona comedy with Renée Zellweger, directed by the Farrelly brothers. 4.7/10.
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Michael Cimino Spends an Hour on a Wedding Before He Shows You the War
A review of Michael Cimino's 1978 epic The Deer Hunter, from its long wedding opening to Russian roulette, its five Oscars, and John Cazale's final role.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
Rambo (2008): Stallone’s Lean, Brutal Return to the Killing Fields
Rambo (2008) review: Stallone returns as John Rambo in a lean 92-minute war film set in Burma, with brutal action, a thin plot, and a real moral argument.
Movie Reviews6.6/10
Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths Wastes a Killer Premise on Meta Detours
Review of Martin McDonagh's 2012 crime comedy Seven Psychopaths, with Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken, and why it falls short of In Bruges
Movie Reviews6.4/10
The Road Review: Faithful to McCarthy, Thinner Than the Book
A review of John Hillcoat's The Road (2009), starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee, a faithful Cormac McCarthy adaptation that lacks the book's grip.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
Will Smith runs from surveillance in a thriller that saw the paranoia coming
Enemy of the State (1998) review: Will Smith and Gene Hackman in Tony Scott's surveillance thriller about a lawyer framed by the NSA.
Movie Reviews8.5/10
Knocked Up: Apatow’s Blunt Question About Maturity, Answered in Nine Months
Apatow's Knocked Up turns a one-night stand into a blunt test of maturity, as Rogen and Heigl ask whether a slacker can grow up in nine months
Movie Reviews6.4/10
DreamWorks took on Exodus and produced a musical that still divides viewers 28 years later.
The Prince of Egypt review: DreamWorks' 1998 animated Exodus epic, its all-star cast, the Moses and Rameses brother story, and why the songs hold it back.
Movie Reviews7.4/10
Invictus Review: Morgan Freeman’s Mandela and the Long Game of Rugby
Clint Eastwood's Invictus stars Morgan Freeman as Mandela and Matt Damon as Springboks captain Pienaar in a 134-minute film about a nation's bet on sport.
Movie Reviews3.9/10
Resident Evil: Retribution: A Feature-Length Corridor With a Countdown Attached
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) review: Paul W. S. Anderson's fifth franchise film, its sunken Umbrella base, returning cast and 39/100 Metacritic score.