Movie Reviews

'Scott Pilgrim' offers a high-energy mix

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

This is going to sound like blasphemy — especially to the film's target audience — but here goes: "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" is way more involving when it focuses on actual people and the palpable angst of young love rather than ... Full story

'Animal Kingdom' an intense thriller

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

We know we're in for a different kind of family values early in "Animal Kingdom" — right off the top, actually — as we watch a teenager sitting next to his passed-out mother on the couch while some inane game show blares on the tele... Full story

'Eat Pray Love' will satisfy fans

ByCHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

"Eat Pray Love" does exactly what it should to satisfy its core audience: It provides a gorgeous escape, exquisitely photographed and full of female wish fulfillment. Yet it also offers sufficient emotional heft and self-discovery to make you f... Full story

Stallone's nostalgia, 'The Expendables'

BY JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

"The Expendables" is an exercise in nostalgia for the bygone era of muscly, macho action films. It's willfully out of date, like an aging hair band that can't pack away the spandex. Sylvester Stallone, the director, co-writer and star, has said... Full story

Fur flies with the jokes in 'Cats & Dogs'

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

Dogs and cats, living together ... mass hysteria? Maybe not so much. While these animals were resourceful and well-equipped enemies in the original "Cats & Dogs" from 2001, now they're forced to band together to fight a common foe in the se... Full story

Duvall and Co. fly high with 'Get Low'

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

Robert Duvall looks great as a grizzled old coot, while Bill Murray makes a mighty fine funeral director. Surround them with sharp old-timey details of the Depression-era boondocks and the roles fit them even better. That's the lowdown on "Get... Full story

'Toy Story 3' doesn't shine quite as brightly

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

This is what happens when you're good at your job: Everyone expects excellence from you, and anything even slightly short of that feels like a letdown. "Toy Story 3" is a gorgeous film — funny, sweet and clever in the tradition of the best P... Full story

'Cyrus' delivers extremely Oedipal humor

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

The romantic charmer "Cyrus" works in spite of — and maybe a bit because of — two physical mismatches audiences are asked to accept in this story of a suitor stymied by the extreme Oedipal complex of his girlfriend's kid. One: That pet... Full story

'Jonah Hex' is short, sugarcoated violence

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

Critics always gripe that movies are too long and could stand some pruning. Then you get the occasional movie, like comic-book adaptation "Jonah Hex," that's too short — so short, and so bad, you cringe at the thought of how awful whatever e... Full story

'Winter's Bone' is a backwoods masterpiece

By DAVID GERMAIN,AP Movie Writer

The sober little indie gem "Winter's Bone" is a stellar alternative to the studio dreck that has given Hollywood a case of the box-office ho-hums right now. The tale of an indomitable Ozark Mountain teen determined to hold together her family and ... Full story

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