Alonso Duralde
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‘Pacific Rim’ Review: There Be Monsters in Here Somewhere
Guillermo del Toro gives us giant robots versus giant monsters – and then barely lets us see them
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‘Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain’ Review: But First, This Commercial Announcement (Video)
The comedian captivates an SRO crowd at Madison Square Garden — but to get to that part, movie audiences are subjected to 15 minutes of self-promotion
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‘Despicable Me 2’ Review: Less Despicable, Less Funny
Fatherhood has made softened-up super-villain Gru even less interesting — and once again, we don't get enough of the minions
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‘The Lone Ranger’ Review: Hi-Yawn, Silver, Awaaaay!
Bloated action epic wants Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer to both deconstruct and revive the old legend, thus heading itself off at the pass
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‘Byzantium’ Review: A Bloody Mess from Neil Jordan
Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton commit to this vampire silliness, but the movie drowns in overblown histrionics
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‘I’m So Excited!’ Review: A Funny and Farcical Throwback From Pedro Almodóvar (Video)
Twenty-five years after "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," the Spanish auteur hasn't lost his outrageous sense of humor
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‘The Heat’ Review: Buddy-Cops Get the Foul-Mouthed, Big-Laughs ‘Bridesmaids’ Treatment
After being the best thing about two terrible movies this year (“Identity Thief” and “The Hangover Part III”), Melissa McCarthy finally gets a vehicle that deserves her
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‘The Conjuring’ Review: No, Seriously, Do NOT Go in the Basement
James Wan's direction and a game cast make this chilling haunted-house tale a contemporary horror classic
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‘Unfinished Song’ Review: Stamp and Redgrave Tune Up a Flat Melody
When this British movie isn't squeezing out tears by any means necessary, it tries to mine laughs out of cutesy seniors singing hip-hop
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‘World War Z’ Review: Humanity Under Attack – and That’s Just the Script (Video)
Big-budget zombie movie gets so lost in its global scale that it doesn't give us a flesh-and-blood hero who makes it all matter, despite Brad Pitt's best efforts
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‘The Bling Ring’ Review: All Dressed Up, Goes Nowhere
Sofia Coppola’s look at larcenous teen celebrity wannabes captures their splashy crime spree but remains as resolutely shallow as its protagonists
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‘Man of Steel’ Review: This Grimmer ‘Superman’ Might Not Soar, But It Flies
Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan's take on Superman isn't perfect, but it's provocative enough to be a successful tentpole
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‘Monsters University’ Review: Wait, Didn’t We See All This in ‘The Internship’?
At least Pixar’s talent for gags and visual styling will get adult audiences through this very familiar prequel
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‘Dirty Wars’ Review: Good Story, but It’s Too Much Like an Infomercial for Journalist Jeremy Scahill
The on-camera ubiquity of Scahill turns a hard-hitting piece of reportage into the “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” of investigative journalism
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‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Review: The Fault Lies in the Co-Star
Joss Whedon brings a puckish wit to this modern-dress Shakespeare, but a dire miscasting of one of the romantic leads crashes the whole venture
