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Review: Footnote

One-sided rivalry
As one-sided rivalries go, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar Aba) has it bad.

By: ANN LEWINSON | March 20, 2012

Review: Pina

Putting 3D to good use
Who could have predicted that it would take the surviving leading lights of the New German Cinema to put 3D to good use?

By: ANN LEWINSON | January 18, 2012

Review: The Muppets

A Muppets for our ironic age
It's tough when your brother Gary is played by Jason Segel and you're only three feet tall and made of felt.

By: ANN LEWINSON | November 21, 2011

Review: Hugo

A valentine to early cinema
Martin Scorsese goes Spielberg with Hugo, as dumbed-down as the shortening of the title of Brian Selznick's Caldecott winner implies.

By: ANN LEWINSON | November 21, 2011

Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

Unfilmable and inscrutable
How do you film Stephenie Meyer's unfilmable Breaking Dawn ?

By: ANN LEWINSON | November 22, 2011

Review: Tower Heist

Employees plot to take back what was rightfully theirs from an embezzling billionaire
Ruth Madoff's 60 Minutes interview last week might as well have been set up by the makers of Tower Heist .

By: ANN LEWINSON | November 08, 2011

Review: A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

Harold and Kumar are back, still high
"Hasn't the whole 3D thing jumped the shark by now?"

By: ANN LEWINSON | November 08, 2011

Depp as the younger Hunter S. Thompson
It's neat seeing Depp, more than a decade after his balding Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , as the younger Hunter S. Thompson, softening mannerisms later made brittle with cocaine, even if the performance is all surface.

By: ANN LEWINSON | October 25, 2011

Review: Paranormal Activity 3

Little to offer
Aside from the fan-cam, 3 has little to offer: the camera is shakier and 2 's ludicrous backstory is continued.

By: ANN LEWINSON | October 25, 2011

Review: Johnny English Reborn

A small improvement
Like 2007's underrated Mr. Bean's Holiday, Johnny English Reborn, directed by Oliver Parker, improves on its unwatchable predecessor.

By: ANN LEWINSON | October 18, 2011

Review: Margin Call

Dumbed down
The financial crisis of 2008 awaits its Social Network; until then we have Margin Call, which zaps its credibility from the get-go when a downsized risk analyst (Stanley Tucci) openly passes a flash drive to an underling (Zachary Quinto) as he's escorted him from the building by security.

By: ANN LEWINSON | October 18, 2011