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Tepid updating of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," set amid the affluence of the Hamptons on Long Island, N.Y., about a tormented hip-hop mogul (Richard T. Jones) still passionately in love with the woman (Chenoa Maxwell) who left him 10 years earlier and who is now the unhappily married trophy ...
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G.I. Jane
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Special effects are expensive and the
lives of the extras are cheap in "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra"
(Paramount/Spyglass), director Stephen Sommers' slick but uninvolving action
excursion. Though developed from a line of Hasbro toys, the relentless—if
almost entirely bloodless—action violence of this futuristic combat fantasy
makes it unsuitable for kids.
The convoluted and ...
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (CNS)
Game 6
A dreary day in the life of a philandering Broadway playwright (Michael Keaton) as his latest play is set to open shows him juggling his apprehensions about the play's reception by a notorious drama critic (Robert Downey Jr.) and hopes that his favorite team, the Red Sox, might finally win the ...
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Game 6 (CNS)
Game Plan, The
Endearing, though slightly implausible story of an egotistical football star (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, proving a surprisingly congenial comic) whose party-oriented lifestyle is disrupted by the arrival on his doorstep of the 7-year-old daughter he never knew he had (remarkably self-assured Madison Pettis). This event complicates his pursuit of the championship ...
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Game, The
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Gamer
The concept of simulation gaming is taken
to brutal and perverse extremes in the futuristic gladiator tale
"Gamer" (Lionsgate/Lakeshore).
Co-writers and directors Mark Neveldine
and Brian Taylor's dystopian mishmash sees wrongly convicted death-row inmate
Kable (Gerard Butler) bioengineered for remote control and fighting for his
life under the online direction of rich teen Simon (Logan ...
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Gamer (CNS)
Gangs of New York
Brutal historical drama set in 1863 New York City where the vengeance-fueled son (Leonardo DiCaprio) of a slain Irish immigrant gang leader befriends his father's murderer (Daniel Day-Lewis) while secretly plotting to kill him and unite the immigrant gangs to overthrow their native rivals and the corrupt politicians backing them. As ...
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Gangs of New York
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Gangster No. 1
Sick drama set in late-1960's London about a young thug (Paul Bettany in flashback; Malcolm McDowell as the aging thug) taken under the wing of a big-time gangster (David Thewlis) whom the young man initially admires and emulates, but then greed and desire sweep over him as he tries to climb ...
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Gangster No. 1 (CNS)
Gangster Squad
Early on in the stylish but excessively violent cops-and-robbers tale "Gangster Squad" (Warner Bros.), the villain of the piece—a reptilian gangster played by Sean Penn—has a rival chained to two cars which drive off in opposite directions, tearing the victim in half.
That's a fair tipoff of the mayhem to come ...
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Garden State
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Garden State
Offbeat comedy about a struggling, emotionally autistic L.A. actor (Zach Braff) deadpanning it in a lithium-induced daze, who returns to his New Jersey home after 10 years in order to attend his mother's funeral and, through a series of chance encounters with old slacker friends and an eccentric girl (Natalie Portman), ...
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Garfield
Flat feline farce based on Jim Davis' popular comic strip about a sardonic, lasagna-loving cat whose lazy life of leisure is interrupted when his sad-sack owner attempting to endear himself to a pretty veterinarian , adopts a stray pup named Odie, who eventually winds up getting dognapped, leaving it up to ...
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Garfield (CNS)
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Trivial, if innocuously entertaining, sequel to the 2004 comedy based on the Jim Davis comic strip, in which the wisecracking, lazy orange housecat (once again computer animated and lethargically voiced by Bill Murray) travels to England, where he inadvertently switches places with a pampered blueblood feline (voiced by Tim Curry) who ...
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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (CNS)
Gattaca
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Georgia Rule
Uneven drama (with some comic moments) about a San Francisco mother (Felicity Huffman) who leaves her deeply troubled 17-year-old daughter (an impressive Lindsay Lohan) in the care of a stern but loving, God-fearing grandmother (Jane Fonda) in small-town Idaho. Director Garry Marshall's glossy soap opera is well acted, and ultimately delivers ...
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Georgia Rule (CNS)
Gerry
Surreal drama about two friends (Matt Damon and Casey Affleck) hiking in the desert who get lost and lack an intellectual or spiritual compass to navigate a way out. Director Gus Van Sant's art-house effort with minimal action and at times inaudible dialogue is a tedious and unsatisfying experience. Some rough ...
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Gerry (CNS)
Get Him to the Greek
Like his 2008 debut, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," writer-director Nicholas Stoller's new comedy "Get Him to the Greek" (Universal)—the raucous, frequently coarse tale of an unlikely friendship -- features a few touching moments and some positive underlying values. But, as in the earlier outing, these elements are ultimately eclipsed, in this case ...
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Get Him to the Greek (CNS)
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Disagreeable inner-city drama loosely inspired by the experiences of rap artist Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, which follows a street thug and aspiring rapper (Jackson) orphaned as a child, who becomes a drug dealer, serves time in prison, survives a near-fatal shooting and eventually turns his life around, quitting crime to pursue ...
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' (CNS)
Get Smart
Good-natured update of 1960s TV series with secret agent Maxwell Smart (a perfectly cast Steve Carell), alternately bungling and clever, and his partner, Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway), dispatched to Russia by their chief (Alan Arkin) to battle the evil KAOS crime syndicate boss (Terence Stamp). Director Peter Segal deftly balances action, ...
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Get Smart (CNS)
G-Force
3-D fantasy adventure, combining live action and animation, in which a team of three guinea pigs (voices of Sam Rockwell, Tracy Morgan and Penelope Cruz) and a mole (voice of Nicolas Cage), all trained and equipped as government agents by an innovative scientist (Zach Galifianakis), work to foil the plans of ...
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Ghost Rider
Lightweight supernatural action adventure based on the Marvel Comics' character about a motorcycle daredevil, Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage), who makes a deal with the devil (Peter Fonda) and is cursed with having to serve as his "bounty hunter" -- transforming into a flaming skeletal biker astride a fiery chopper by night ...
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Ghost Rider (CNS)
Ghost Ship
Gory tale about a salvage crew (led by Gabriel Byrne and Julianna Margulies) struggling to remove cases of gold bullion from a decrepit ocean liner inhabited by evil spirits. A pathetic script with preposterous developments should confine director Steve Beck's carnage-filled horror flick to Davy Jones' locker. Recurring violence with excessive ...
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Ghost Ship (CNS)
Ghost Town
Bittersweet romantic comedy set in New York in which a misanthropic dentist (Ricky Gervais) finds he has acquired the ability to see ghosts after he is clinically dead for seven minutes during a routine medical procedure and is persuaded by the spirit of a recently deceased husband (Greg Kinnear) to break ...
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Ghost Town
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Ghosts of the Abyss
Employing cutting-edge 3-D technology, filmmaker James Cameron plunges more than two miles down to the bottom of the sea to the site of the legendary wreck of the Titanic in this Imax documentary. Despite a disjointed narrative and some talky sequences, the film, narrated by Bill Paxton, offers haunting, never-before-seen images ...
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Ghosts of the Abyss (CNS)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
A heartless womanizing bachelor (Matthew McConaughey) is visited by the ghosts of his playboy uncle (Michael Douglas) and those of his jilted girlfriends (Emma Stone, Noureen DeWulf and Olga Maliouk) on the eve of the wedding of his brother (Breckin Meyer), and he comes to realize the depth of his feelings ...
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (CNS)
Gigli
Stale romantic comedy about a low-level leg-breaker (Ben Affleck) who falls for a beautiful lesbian mob enforcer (Jennifer Lopez) hired to assist him in kidnapping a federal prosecutor's mentally handicapped brother. Lopez and Affleck exhibit more fizzle than sizzle in this overhyped clunker written and directed by Martin Brest, full of ...
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Gigli (CNS)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
As fans of the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy" will attest, it's difficult to name a more flawed and fascinating protagonist in recent popular fiction than Lisbeth Salander.
The mixture of sympathy and unease she triggers was ably captured in the 2009 Swedish-language film version of Larsson's first volume ...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (CNS)
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Atmospheric drama in which renowned Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth) grows obsessed with his young housemaid (Scarlett Johansson), who connects with him on an intellectual and artistic level, leading to the famed painting of the title that nearly tears his family apart. In visually adapting Tracy Chevalier's novel, director Peter ...
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Gladiator
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Glee The 3D Concert Movie
One of the more popular television programs of recent years leaps to the big screen with "Glee The 3D Concert Movie" (Fox), a documentary-style look at a live-performance tour by the show's ensemble that comes complete with backstage drama, screaming fans and some very loud music.
While its overarching message of ...
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Glee The 3D Concert Movie (CNS)
Glory Road
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Glory Road
Crowd pleaser based on the true story of an unproven, small-town basketball coach (Josh Lucas), who -- hired to turn around a Texas college's losing program -- bucks the color barrier by recruiting African-American athletes (including Derek Luke), molding his interracial underdogs into a unified team and leading them to an ...
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Gnomeo & Juliet
William Shakespeare's classic tragedy of star-crossed lovers morphs into an animated comedy in "Gnomeo & Juliet" (Touchstone), a slightly warped but ultimately winning film that offers good clean fun for the entire family.
"This story has been told before, many times," our narrator, a garden gnome in a pointy hat, ...
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Gnomeo & Juliet (CNS)
Goal! The Dream Begins
Familiar but satisfying sports drama about an undocumented Mexican migrant (Kuno Becker) who is given an opportunity to escape his father's (Tony Plana) hardscrabble fate and fulfill his dream of playing professional soccer when a former British scout (Stephen Dillane) visiting Los Angeles offers him a tryout with a top-tier English ...
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Goal! The Dream Begins (CNS)
Gods and Generals
Epic 220-minute Civil War drama focuses on the convictions and strategies of Confederate Gens. Lee and Jackson (Robert Duvall and Stephen Lang) and the North's Gen. Hancock and Lt. Col. Chamberlain (Brian Mallon and Jeff Daniels) in the early war years of 1861-63. As directed by Ron Maxwell, battle scenes are ...
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Gods and Generals (CNS)
Godsend
Cautionary psychological thriller about a grief-stricken couple (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Greg Kinnear) who agree to an offer made by a brilliant, but shadowy, scientist (Robert De Niro) to clone their 8-year-old son after the boy is killed in a tragic accident, only to find out later the chilling unforeseen consequences of ...
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Godsend (CNS)
Going the Distance
Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are girlfriend and boyfriend living on opposite sides of the country in "Going the Distance" (Warner Bros.), a surprisingly raunchy romantic comedy, even allowing for its suggestive title.
Whatever wholesome charms Barrymore and Long possess are obscured by the dirty-minded nature of the dialogue. As ...
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Going the Distance (CNS)
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
Serious-minded feature-length documentary based on the book "Tour of Duty" profiling John Kerry's experiences as a Navy Swift boat commander during the Vietnam War and his subsequent anti-war activism, focusing on his leadership role during a 1971 veterans' protest in Washington. Directed by longtime Kerry friend George Butler, the film wrestles ...
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Golden Compass, The
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Golden Compass, The
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Gomorrah
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Gomorrah (SAM)
Gone
If impersonating a real movie were a crime, the painfully inept thriller "Gone" (Summit) would be facing an open-and-shut case. Although morally acceptable for adult viewers, this tedious outing is cinematically recommendable to none.
Chief among the characters you won't care about, acting on motivations you won't believe to do things ...
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Gone (CNS)
Gone Baby Gone
Thought-provoking mystery about a private investigator (a superlative Casey Affleck) and his girlfriend-partner (Michelle Monaghan) hired to investigate the disappearance of the 4-year-old daughter of a drug addict (Amy Ryan) in the Boston area, with the reluctant cooperation of the police (Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris). Ben Affleck makes an auspicious ...
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Gone Baby Gone (CNS)
Good Boy!
Family-friendly comedy about a timid young dog-walker (Liam Aiken) who, after adopting an extraterrestrial mutt (voiced by Matthew Broderick), discovers he understands doggie talk and must help convince his pooch's intergalactic boss that dogs -- not humans -- are in charge on Earth, lest all dogs be recalled to their home ...
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Good Boy! (CNS)
Good Bye, Lenin!
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Good Bye, Lenin! (SAM)
A Good Day to Die Hard
The quarter-century-old action franchise that started with 1988's "Die Hard" seems to have reached its own death throes with "A Good Day to Die Hard" (Fox). This fifth installment rests on the premise that killing can be an awful lot of fun.
New York detective and series protagonist John McClane (Bruce ...
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A Good Day to Die Hard (CNS)
Good Deeds
Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) is a wealthy San Francisco
businessman who runs the family-owned software company his now deceased father
started. He’s a gentleman, 5th generation Ivy League educated, and soon to be married to Natalie (Gabrielle
Union). His brother Walt (Brian White) is spoiled, not trustworthy, and envious
of his brother/ Walt wants to ...
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Good Deeds (SRR)
Good German, The
Compelling, well-acted, if somewhat contrived, story of a U.S. war correspondent (George Clooney) who comes to Berlin to cover the Potsdam peace conference after World War II, and finds the German woman with whom he once had an affair (Cate Blanchett), who is now desperate to leave the country, as he ...
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Good German, The (CNS)
Good Girl, The
Disconcerting story in which a small-town Texas store clerk (Jennifer Aniston), trapped in a stale marriage with a pot-smoking house painter (John C. Reilly), has an affair with a brooding young man (Jake Gyllenhaal) which unravels her life in a myriad of complications and problems. Director Miguel Arteta's well-acted, character-driven piece ...
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Good Girl, The (CNS)
Good Luck Chuck
Raunchy comedy about a dentist (Dane Cook) cursed with being a steppingstone for women seeking Mr. Right is obnoxious, humorless and often downright nauseating. Even with the charming Jessica Alba at his disposal, first-time director Mark Helfrich can't make the vulgar material flow or soften its warped take on modern relationships ...
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Good Luck Chuck (CNS)
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Stylish black-and-white re-creation of the 1950s television era as crusading broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow (an uncannily evocative David Strathairn) and his colleagues Fred Friendly (George Clooney), Joe Wershba (Robert Downey Jr.), and "Sig" Mickelson (Jeff Daniels) take on Sen. Joseph McCarthy in his crusade against communism, under the watchful eye ...
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
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Good Night, The
Meandering New York-based tale of a complacent commercial-jingle writer (Martin Freeman), whose relationship with his live-in girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow) has soured, so he begins to fantasize about an idealized
woman (Penelope Cruz), and with the help of a New Age dream expert (Danny DeVito), works to conjure her ...
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Good Night, The (CNS)
Good Shepherd, The
Austere but generally absorbing over-the-years saga of a fictitious CIA man (a quietly intense Matt Damon) tracing his life from initiation into the secretive Yale Skull and Bones fraternity; his unhappy marriage to a classmate's sister (Angelina Jolie); his recruitment into the Office of Strategic Services during World War II; his ...
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Good Shepherd, The (CNS)
Good Thief, The
An addicted ex-con (Nick Nolte) kicks his habit in order to mastermind an elaborate heist involving the Monte Carlo casino, complicated by a flaky teen sidekick (Nutsa Kukhianidze) and a suspicious detective (Tcheky Karyo) dogging his every move. Writer-director Neil Jordan's heist caper has a clever set-up and quirky cop-crook dynamics ...
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Good Thief, The (CNS)
Good Will Hunting
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Good Woman, A
Reasonably faithful and effective -- but rather dank -- updating of Oscar Wilde's Victorian-era melodrama "Lady Windermere's Fan" now set in 1930s Italy, concerning a notorious woman (a miscast Helen Hunt) who disrupts the lives of wealthy young newlyweds when the starry-eyed young wife (Scarlett Johansson) suspects the lady is having ...
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Good Woman, A (CNS)
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Let the buyer—in this case, the ticket
buyer—beware. "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard" (Paramount Vantage)
is a shoddy, vulgar comedy that relies on humor and language as sordid as the
strip clubs its characters frequent.
In a last-gasp bid to save his failing
used-car dealership, Ben Selleck (James Brolin) summons a team of ...
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (CNS)
Gospel of John, The
Faithful word-for-word version (narrated by Christopher Plummer) of the life, ministry and death of Jesus Christ, as recounted by the fourth evangelist. Though weighed down at times by its verbatim approach, director Philip Saville's three-hour film eschews biblical pageantry for a more intimate portrait of Jesus…More
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Gospel of John, The (CNS)
Gospel, The
Elevating if melodramatic redemption drama about a preacher's son (Boris Kodjoe) who returns home after 15 years -- putting his temptation-filled success as a chart-topping hip-hop artist on hold -- to mend fences with his estranged father (Clifton Powell), who is terminally ill, and his childhood friend (Idris Elba), who's been ...
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Gospel, The (CNS)
Gothika
Stylish but formulaic psychological thriller about a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) who, after a cryptic roadside encounter with a mysterious girl, wakes up to find herself in an asylum and the prime suspect in the murder of her husband. While director Mathieu Kassovitz proves adroit at creating suspense and keeping the ...
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Gothika (CNS)
Gracie
Father-daughter story about a teenage girl (Carly Schroeder) in 1978 New Jersey who's determined to play for her high school's boys' soccer team. Director Davis Guggenheim refreshingly doesn't follow the standard sports-film trajectory, making her path far from smooth or direct, and the climactic game all the more inspiring for its ...
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Gracie (CNS)
Grand, The
Moderately amusing improvised mock documentary about an addiction-prone, down-on-his-luck Las Vegas casino owner (Woody Harrelson) who sponsors and plays in a poker tournament that brings together a collection of eccentrics (David Cross, Dennis Farina and Cheryl Hines, among others) to compete for a $10 million prize. Co-writer and director Zak Penn's ...
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Grand, The (CNS)
Grandma's Boy
Unspeakably bad comedy about a video-game tester (Allen Covert) who moves in with his grandmother (Doris Roberts) and her geriatric roommates (Shirley Jones and Shirley Knight) after he's evicted for nonpayment of rent, his growing attraction to the efficiency expert at the office (Linda Cardellini), and his interaction with a coterie ...
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Grandma's Boy (CNS)
The Great Buck Howard
Charming show biz comedy about a law school dropout (Colin Hanks) who takes a job as road manager for a once-famed but now washed-up mentalist (John Malkovich), eventually bonding with him, despite the performer's egotistical delusions, and falling for his much put-upon publicist (Emily Blunt). Sustained by Malkovich's masterly characterization, writer-director ...
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The Great Buck Howard (CNS)
Great Debaters, The
Inspiring tale, based on true events, about a gifted and demanding debate coach (Denzel Washington) at a small African-American college in 1930s Texas who guides his forensics team of three male (Denzel Whitaker, Nate Parker and Jermaine Williams) and one female (Jurnee Smollett) student to unprecedented nationwide success. Washington, who also ...
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Great Debaters, The (CNS)
The Great Gatsby
A great American novel doesn't always, it seems, translate into a sure-fire film property. A case in point: F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 tale, "The Great Gatsby."
Director and co-writer Baz Luhrmann's current 3-D adaptation (Warner Bros.) is at least the fourth effort to being Fitzgerald's chronicle of the Jazz Age ...
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The Great Gatsby (CNS)
Great Raid, The
Stirring World War II drama set in the Philippines which tells the real-life story of the daring mission to rescue 500 American POWs from a Japanese prison camp by a vastly outnumbered joint team of U.S. Army rangers (led by Benjamin Bratt and James Franco) and Filipino resistance fighters. Directed by ...
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Great Raid, The (CNS)
Greatest Game Ever Played, The
Absorbing and inspiring true-life story of a young amateur working-class golfer, Francis Ouimet (Shia LeBeouf), who played against British golf champion Harry Vardon (Stephen Dillane) in the 1913 U.S. Open. Director Bill Paxton's film is filled with excellent period detail, and though the pace is leisurely, the color palette muted and ...
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Greatest Game Ever Played, The
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The Green Hornet
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Green Lantern
It's an unsettling sign when a contemporary film might aptly be subtitled "Triumph of the Will" -- the moniker, of course, of Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 pro-Nazi "documentary" and a phrase that highlights the Hitler movement's debt to the atheistic, nihilist philosophy of Friederich Nietzsche (1844-1900).
But such, surprisingly enough, is the ...
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Green Mile, The
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Green Mile, The
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Green Zone
The early stages of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the ultimately fruitless search for the Saddam regime's weapons of mass destruction, provide the context for "Green Zone" (Universal), an idealistic but raw combat drama.
Loosely inspired by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran's 2007 best-seller "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," this ...
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Green Zone (CNS)
The Grey
"The Grey" (Open Road) respectfully obeys the immutable law of all story lines in which an aircraft crashes in the Arctic: Some folks are bound to get eaten.
This film, however, with its slight spiritual bent, ducks the cannibalism cliche and makes wolves the hungry ones. The animals are doing what ...
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The Grey (CNS)
Grey Zone, The
Disturbing fact-based drama set in 1944 Auschwitz where a group of Jewish concentration camp overseers, enlisted by the Nazis to help control and kill fellow Jews, decides to destroy the death camp in a suicide revolt. Writer-director Tim Blake Nelson crafts a masterful work posing troubling moral questions about life and ...
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Grey Zone, The (CNS)
Gridiron Gang
Inspiring truth-based sports drama about a juvenile detention camp probation officer (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) who organizes a football team from among the teen inmates (including Jade Yorker and David Thomas) to teach them discipline and teamwork, and through his tough-love determination succeeds in instilling self-esteem and turning their lives in ...
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Gridiron Gang (CNS)
Grind
Utterly forgettable tale of four teens (Mike Vogel, Vince Vieluf, Adam Brody and Joey Kern) with aspirations of becoming professional skateboarders who follow a professional boarder (Jason London) across the country hoping to catch their big break. With foolish characters and an unfocused plot, director Casey La Scala's story creeps along, ...
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Grind (CNS)
Grindhouse
Cinematically inventive but brutally sordid two-part homage to the cheapie exploitation films of the 1960s and '70s features writer-director Robert Rodriguez's zombie-inspired "Planet Terror" in which residents of a Texas town (Freddy Rodriguez, Rose McGowan, Josh Brolin and Marley Shelton) face down plague-infested mutants; and writer-director Quentin Tarantino's revenge slasher "Death ...
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Grindhouse (CNS)
Grizzly Man
Fascinating profile of grizzly bear preservationist Timothy Treadwell, who filmed himself alone in the wilderness over a five-year period as he tried to "make friends" with wild bears and protect them, fully aware of the dangers, until he was killed by a bear in 2003. German director Werner Herzog explores the ...
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Grizzly Man (CNS)
Groomsmen, The
Intermittently engaging New York drama about a writer (Edward Burns, who also directs) wrestling with anxiety over his impending marriage to his pregnant girlfriend (Brittany Murphy) during a week, leading up to the wedding, of male bonding with his groomsmen (Jay Mohr, Matthew Lillard, Donal Logue and John Leguizamo), each of ...
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Groomsmen, The (CNS)
Grosse Point Blank
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Grown Ups
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Gran Torino
Improbable and gritty if ultimately humane redemption tale of a crusty Korean War vet (Clint Eastwood in peak form) who resents the encroachment of the Laotian Hmongs who have moved into his Detroit neighborhood, but becomes their reluctant hero and unlikely friend after he saves the young teen (Bee Vang) next ...
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Gran Torino
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Grudge 2, The
Sequel to the 2004 supernatural thriller about a vengeful ghost whose malice swells beyond the haunted Tokyo abode of the first film to "infect" the sister (Amber Tamblyn) of the previous movie's heroine (Sarah Michelle Gellar in cameo) and an American schoolgirl (Arielle Kebbel) studying in Japan who carries the evil ...
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Grudge, The
Stylish and spooky supernatural thriller set in Japan about a young American student (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who becomes entangled in the strange goings-on at a cursed house haunted by the vengeful spirits of its murdered former residents. A remake of his hugely popular 2003 Japanese horror movie, director Takashi Shimizu wisely ...
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Grudge, The (CNS)
Guardian, The
Action drama about a veteran Coast Guard rescue swimmer (Kevin Costner) who, after losing a colleague, temporarily hangs up his fins to teach at a Coast Guard academy, where he locks horns with a cocky recruit (Ashton Kutcher). Despite treading water for most of its first hour that plays like a ...
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Guardian, The (CNS)
Guess Who
Loosely based updating of the 1967 classic, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," with a race-reversing twist in which an African-American girl (Zoe Saldana) brings home her white fiance (Ashton Kutcher) to meet her pigment-conscious parents, only to be met with resistance by her overprotective father (Bernie Mac). Directed by Kevin Rodney ...
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Guess Who (CNS)
Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A
Adaptation of writer-director Dito Montiel's gritty memoir about his turbulent adolescence (where he's played by Shia LaBeouf) in Queens, New York, with its street violence, casual sex and drugs, his longing for his dad's (Chazz Palminteri) love, and ultimately his flight from and eventual return to the neighborhood as an adult ...
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The Guilt Trip
The inevitable tensions of family life have served as the basis for many a screen comedy. In the current holiday season alone, they provide grist for two very different cinematic mills: the crude misfire "This Is 40" and the warmhearted mother-and-son road movie "The Guilt Trip" (Paramount).
Though the latter includes ...
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The Guilt Trip (CNS)
Gulliver's Travels
"Gulliver's Travels" (Fox) answers the question whether a movie rated PG can be considered morally offensive.
Yes, it sure can.
It's not because the project is a mediocre effort attempting to cash in on the elusive comic abilities of Jack Black, who plays a modern riff on the traveler Lemuel Gulliver, ...
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Gulliver's Travels (CNS)
Gunner Palace
Raw and unfocused but affecting anti-war documentary chronicling the daily lives, fears and frustrations of soldiers serving in a U.S. Army unit known as the "Gunners" and stationed in a volatile area of Iraq, traveling with them on hazardous night patrols and raids of houses of suspected insurgents, as well as ...
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Gunner Palace (CNS)
Guru, The
An Indian
An Indian man (Jimi Mistry) newly arrived in New York City to become an actor finds himself unwittingly posing as a guru promoting sexual healing while falling for a bride-to-be (Heather Graham) who secretly stars in porno films. Director Daisy von Scherler Mayer's colorful comedy has funny moments but depicts pornography ...
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Guru, The
An Indian (CNS)
Guy Thing, A
Stale romantic comedy about an anxious groom-to-be whose future marital bliss is shattered when he falls for his fiancee's free-spirited cousin. While director Chris Koch has assembled an attractive young cast, the contrived premise is mired with cliches, never progressing past sophomoric toilet humor and a predictable plot. Implied sexual relation, ...
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Guy Thing, A (CNS)
Guys, The
Moving drama in which a New York City journalist (Sigourney Weaver) is asked to help a fire captain (Anthony LaPaglia) write a series of eulogies for the firefighters he lost at the World Trade Center as they both struggle to come to terms with the event. Based on the play by ...
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Guys, The (CNS)
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