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• "Chernobyl Diaries" Movie Review: A Toxic Waste of Handheld Cameras

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Spoiler alert:Chernobyl Diaries is toxic waste. Based on a premise by Paranormal Activity director Peli, Chernobyl Diaries tags along with a... More >>

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  Men in Black 3

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? Chances are, if you saw both MIB... More >>

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  Payback

  By Mark Holcomb

  This riff on Margaret Atwood's 2008 book-length essay, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, avoids the traps of recent social-problem... More >>

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  The Dictator

  By Karina Longworth

  In The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb leader of fictional North African nation Wadiya. Under... More >>

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  Battleship

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless that it achieves a certain grandeur. Battleship, which I swear to God is... More >>

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  Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story

  By Ernest Hardy

  In an old news clip that is played in the documentary Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, a newscaster says, "You can tell a lot about a people... More >>

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  What to Expect When You're Expecting

  By Eric Hynes

  Heidi Murkoff's mega-best-selling manual, What to Expect When You're Expecting, actually makes perfect sense as a vehicle for Hollywood, an... More >>

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  Dark Shadows

  By Nick Pinkerton

  A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts:... More >>

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  The Perfect Family

  By Ernest Hardy

  Eileen (Kathleen Turner) is consumed by the Catholic Church and its doctrine — so much so that her nonstop charitable work for the church... More >>

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  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

  By Nick Pinkerton

  A group of disparate British retirees is lured to the Indian subcontinent for cut-rate surgery, low-overhead living, or reasons they hope to keep... More >>

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  Natural Selection

  By Michelle Orange

  An emancipation story that takes place mostly on the road and on the run, Natural Selection tells the story of how a God-fearing 40-something... More >>

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  Girl in Progress

  By Melissa Anderson

  Single mother Grace (Eva Mendes) toils as a maid and a waitress to keep her petulant daughter, Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez), in private school in... More >>

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  The Avengers

  By Karina Longworth

  At the start of the long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick The Avengers, a powerful, potentially dangerous glowing cube is in the hands... More >>

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  Chico & Rita

  By Michelle Orange

  In Oscar nominee Chico & Rita, the life of Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdés seems to have been translated first into fairy tale and... More >>

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  Darling Companion

  By Melissa Anderson

  "Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms," George Eliot once wrote. That's certainly the appeal... More >>

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