It’s hard to find the romance in this love story. There’s no distracting from Lopez and Wilson’s lack of chemistry, and the fact that their characters have nothing in common save for this: they’re lonely.
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In Wonder, a deformed child isn’t the only flawed character
Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson star in this drama about a ten-year-old boy trying to fit in.
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Brando is back, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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In The Humbling, Al Pacino stars as a Shakespearean actor who can’t get it up
Barry Levinson directs the screen adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel.
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Now Playing: Are You Here
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner makes his big-screen writing and directing debut
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Young love, old bones, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The kids are all over in Delivery Man
In Delivery Man, Vince Vaughn is a sperm donor with 533 children.
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The education of an illusionist, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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George Lucas and Woody Allen: daydream believers
THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS ★★Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe MIDNIGHT IN PARIS ★★★Directed by Woody Allen Fantasy geeks have become a topic of increasing interest to indie documentary makers. Trekkies (1997), which recorded the rituals of Star Trek fanatics, was followed in the past decade by such low-budget productions as Comic Book: The Movie […]
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Bait and Switch
“You know how many actors in LA want to be in an Elmore Leonard project?” asked Morgan Freeman on a recent episode of HBO “First Look,” one of those cable shows where the studios pimp their upcoming releases. I can’t answer that one, but I do know that since Leonard began publishing fiction 53 years […]
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What Have We Learned?
In a press statement issued September 13, Paramount Classics announced that the national release of Ed Burns’s romantic comedy Sidewalks of New York would be postponed “due to recent events and sensitivity to current issues.” The maddeningly vague language was typical of the industry’s sudden timidity in the face of real-life disaster: apparently the studio […]