Alonso Duralde
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‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Review: Arcade-Generation ‘Roger Rabbit’ Is Worth Every Quarter
John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman lead a talented voice cast in this tale of videogame characters who want to be more than the sum of their programming
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‘Fun Size’ Review: Mostly Empty Calories, But Still a Halloween Treat
This teen romp pales next to the movies that influenced it, but there are enough laughs to fill your plastic jack-o’-lantern
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‘Chasing Mavericks’ Review: Surfing Saga Wipes Out on Dry Land
The surfing footage is breathtaking, but Gerard Butler and company can’t keep this clichéd biopic afloat
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‘Cloud Atlas’ Review: Bends the Brain Without Touching the Heart
The Wachowskis’ and Tom Tykwer’s time-spanning epic offers a feast for the eyes and ears, but the emotional payoffs just aren’t there
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‘Paranormal Activity 4’ Review: Found-Footage Fright Franchise Keeps Chugging Along
There are a half-dozen decent scares in this new sequel, but boy do they make you wait to get to them
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‘The Sessions’ Review: Sex-Surrogate Story Works Better in Bed Than in Church
The intimate scenes between John Hawkes and Helen Hunt make the creaky comedy bits with a priestly William H. Macy worth enduring
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‘Alex Cross’ Review: Stop, Or Madea Will Shoot
For James Patterson’s best-selling cop-shrink to become a new, rebooted action franchise, someone more dynamic than Tyler Perry needs to star
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‘Atlas Shrugged: Part II’ Review: Tea-Party ‘Twilight’ Improves a Bit in This Still-Strident Sequel
Whatever your feelings about Ayn Rand’s philosophies, the sermonizing and speechifying runs thick in this second installment
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‘Seven Psychopaths’ Review: It’s a Throat-Slitting, Bloody, Lunatic Hoot
Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to “In Bruges” is too self-aware by half, but the brilliant ensemble cast keeps the bloody laughs coming
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‘The Paperboy’ Review: A Lurid, Sweaty, Sticky Mess
Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron grunt and grope their way through a movie that should have been more serious — or way more campy
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‘Frankenweenie’ Review: Tim Burton Returns to Form With a (Very) Young Frankenstein
The visionary behind “Beetlejuice” and “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” comes out to play in this ghoulishly entertaining horror-comedy
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‘Taken 2’ Review: Shoddy Sequel Has a Particular Set of Stupid
Liam Neeson’s bad-ass ex-CIA agent returns in a less plausible and far less thrilling second go-round
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‘Hotel Transylvania’ Review: Hey, This Sucker Is Really Funny
This mad monster party is so much fun that not even Adam Sandler can spoil it
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‘Looper’ Review: Stylish Time-Travel Tale That Loses Race With Clock
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s young-Bruce-Willis makeup is never not distracting in Rian Johnson’s latest
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‘Pitch Perfect’ Review: Forget ‘Glee,’ This Tuneful, Silly College Musical Stays on Key
Anna Kendrick leads an appealing cast in this hilariously silly saga of intensely competitive undergrad a cappella singing groups