Year of the Dog
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Year of the Dog (SAM)
Year of the Dog
Quirky tale -- by turns, wryly amusing, sad and thought-provoking -- about a lonely office worker (Molly Shannon) whose beloved beagle dies suddenly, prompting her to reevaluate her priorities as she interacts with her hunting-obsessed neighbor (John C. Reilly), an animal rights activist (Peter Sarsgaard), her paranoid boss (Josh Pais), best ...
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Year of the Dog (CNS)
Year One
Ramshackle road comedy in which two misfit hunter-gatherers (Jack Black and Michael Cera) set out from their prehistoric village and encounter a series of biblical figures, including Cain (David Cross), Abraham (Hank Azaria), Isaac (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and the elite of Sodom (most prominently Oliver Platt). Director and co-writer Harold Ramis' lumbering ...
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Year One (CNS)
Yes Man
Fitfully funny comedy in which a bored bank employee (Jim Carrey) attends a seminar run by a self-help guru (a comically intimidating Terence Stamp) and vows to say yes to every invitation or suggestion, leading to romance with a quirky singer (Zooey Deschanel), a renewed relationship with his best friend (Bradley ...
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Yes Man (CNS)
Yogi Bear
Hey hey hey—it's "Yogi Bear" (Warner Bros.). The beloved Hanna-Barbera television cartoon character, first seen in 1958, returns in a new 3-D big-screen adventure. While the look of this strictly-for-the-kids film is impressive—with seamless interaction between the computer-generated talking bears, live actors and real settings—its one-joke premise fast wears out its ...
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Yogi Bear (CNS)
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
Warmhearted documentary celebrating the life and career of Gertrude Berg, the creator, principal writer and star of "The Goldbergs," a popular radio series about a middle-class Jewish family that became one of TV's first sitcoms in 1949. Filmmaker Aviva Kempner's accomplished profile of this media pioneer, whose scripts promoted familial relationships ...
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Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (CNS)
You Again
The phrase "best friends forever" (BFF) takes on a whole new meaning in "You Again" (Disney/Touchstone), an entertaining, multigenerational comedy in which grown-ups find it hard to leave the dramas—and traumas—of their teen years behind.
Amid the resurgence of teen angst and unresolved conflicts, the film offers refreshingly positive messages ...
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You Again (CNS)
You Can Count on Me
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You Can Count on Me (SAM)
You Don't Mess With the Zohan
Typically vulgar Adam Sandler comedy centers on Zohan Dvir, a lethal Israeli commando who abandons an illustrious army career in order to fulfill his dream of becoming a New York hairdresser. Perhaps the best that can be said about this inanity is that a message of intercultural harmony and understanding seeps ...
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You Don't Mess With the Zohan (CNS)
You Got Served
Slight hip-hop musical that follows a dancing crew led by two friends (Omari Grandberry and Marques Houston) who must put aside their recent feuding to triumph at the biggest dance competition of the year. High-energy, acrobatic dance scenes and all-the-rage pop singers may attract a young crowd, but the boilerplate script ...
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You Got Served (CNS)
You, Me and Dupree
After losing his job, home and car, the boorish best friend (Owen Wilson) of the groom moves in with the newlyweds (Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson) creating havoc until, midway through, he straightens himself out and proves himself useful. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo's uneven comedy starts out irritating and contrived, ...
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You, Me and Dupree (CNS)
Young Adam
Bleak tale set in Glasgow during the 1950s about a young Scottish drifter (Ewan McGregor) working and living on a coal barge, who becomes entangled in a web of adulterous seduction and death when the discovery of a drowned woman opens the book on a dark secret from his past. Underneath ...
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Young Adam (CNS)
Young Adult
In Jason Reitman’s new film, written by
Diablo Cody who won an Oscar for “Juno” (2008), the young adult of their film
is a divorced, disturbed, alcoholic ghostwriter of adolescent fiction named
Mavis, played by Charlize Theron.
“Young Adult” tries hard to be witty but it falls flat at
every turn. It is a ...
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Young Adult (SRR)
Young Black Stallion, The
Feel-good family adventure set in 1946 North Africa about a young Bedouin girl (Biana Tamimi) who befriends and tames a fiery wild stallion, which she eventually rides to victory in an important tribal horse race in order to restore her grandfather's reputation among the regional clansmen after losing all his wealth ...
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Young Black Stallion, The (CNS)
Young@Heart
Often funny and ultimately moving documentary about a Northampton, Mass., senior citizens' chorus whose repertoire includes rock, R&B and punk selections as they rehearse over a two-month period for a hometown concert and cope with the death of one member and the ill health of others. Director-narrator Stephen Walker's film quickly ...
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Young@Heart (CNS)
Young@Heart
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Young@Heart (SAM)
Your Highness
Audiences won't have to consult Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage -- the standard British reference work on all things royal and aristocratic -- to recognize that the comedy "Your Highness" (Universal) might more aptly be styled "Your Lowness." That's because the humor in this sophomoric send-up of medieval swashbucklers has more to ...
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Your Highness (CNS)
Yours, Mine & Ours
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Yours, Mine & Ours (SAM)
Yours, Mine & Ours
Inferior remake of the 1968 Henry Fonda-Lucille Ball charmer about a widowed naval officer (Dennis Quaid) with eight children, and a free-spirited widow (Rene Russo) with 10, who marry years after being high school sweethearts, and the comic complications that arise from merging the families. Despite a heart-tugging ending, director Raja ...
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Yours, Mine & Ours (CNS)
Youth in Revolt
Though sometimes witty, "Youth in Revolt" (Dimension) is, far more consistently, a sex-focused coming-of-age comedy that begins with its main character, lonely California teen Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), engaged in an audible (though not visible) act of autoeroticism, and rarely departs from the theme of physical gratification thereafter.
Much of ...
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Youth in Revolt (CNS)
Youth Without Youth
Visually rich but dramatically deficient fable in which a 70-year-old Romanian scholar (Tim Roth) regains his youth and acquires superhuman powers -- as well as a split personality -- after being struck by lightning, is protected and given a new identity by his doctor (Bruno Ganz), romances a Nazi spy (Alexandra ...
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Youth Without Youth (CNS)
You've Got Mail
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You've Got Mail (SAM)
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie
Incoherent animated action adventure about a teenager named Yugi (voiced by Dan Green), whose invincible alter ego -- an Egyptian pharaoh whose spirit he channels through a mystical amulet he wears around his neck -- faces off against an ancient evil demon in a high-stakes card duel, with the fate of ...
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (CNS)
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