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- This time, “Harold & Kumar” seek freedom, not burgers
- CRAIG OUTHIER
- If you loved the reefer-fueled hijinks of “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” (2004), are you preordained to laugh yourself stupid when the duo goes waaaay down south in "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"? Does Willie Nelson...
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- “Baby Mama” is not “Knocked Up”
- CRAIG OUTHIER
- As Kate Holbrook, the unfashionably infertile heroine of "Baby Mama," Tina Fey embodies the reproductive flip-side of "Juno," "Knocked Up," "Waitress," et al. Though she wants a baby in the worst way, Kate is facing the cold, hard truth of being a would-be...
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- “Deception” is cold and emotionally vacant
- CRAIG OUTHIER
- Beware, filmmaker, the dread "erotic thriller." It has stunted greatness. It has smashed careers. And it's given audiences little besides "Fatal Attraction" and an inexhaustible reservoir of late-night Cinemax alone-time specials....
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- Soft drumbeat of advocacy
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- Like a shrewd salesman who keeps his suitcase to the side, Thomas McCarthy's “The Visitor” doesn't immediately announce itself as a movie about immigration policy. Instead, this enormously affecting, thought-provoking drama does it the smart...
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- “21” needs to know when to hold 'em
- CRAIG OUTHIER
- Far less fascinating as an over-packaged, over-plotted thriller than it was as a nonfiction book, 21 is the sort of movie that inspires the question, "Why didn't they just make it into a documentary?" Certainly, the story of six MIT blackjack geeks who...
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- “Stop-Loss”: A meandering and uncertain drama
- CRAIG OUTHIER
- As a battle-tested Iraq war hero who cuts and runs when Uncle Sam invites him back for more, Ryan Phillippe embodies the progressive protest-politics of Kimberly Peirce's Stop Loss. It's anti-war but pro-soldier; love the player, hate the game....
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- “The Hammer” hits the comedy nail on the head
- CRAIG OUTHIER
- Adam Carolla has always been a bob-and-weave kind of comic – whining about this, riffing on that, finding humor in the details. Unlike funnymen who honed their sweet science in stand-up comedy clubs, the former "Man Show" host isn't one to rely...
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- “Under the Same Moon” sweet but forgettable
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- Under the Same Moon is a sweet but forgettable togetherness yarn, poised ever-so-lightly on the knife edge of America's immigration debate. That the movie manages not to bloody itself speaks both to its twinkle-toed charm and meager dramatic weight.To...
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