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Lou Lumenick, a native of Astoria, Queens who's been covering movies since 1981, is The Post's chief film critic. He's covered the Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and New York Film Festivals many times. Lou co-curated the Turner Classic Movies film series "Shadows of Russia'' and has appeared on the network as an on-air guest programmer. He will introduce "Design for Living'' on April 29 at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood.
Still going strong in its sixth — and arguably most entertaining, or at least loudest — installment (with a seventh already announced), you could look at the 12-year-old “Fast and Furious’’ series as a steroid-pumped... May 22, 2013
From MoviesThis is less a documentary than a wholly uncritical celebration — with scant personal details — of Andrew Breitbart, the pugnacious conservative Internet media mogul who died suddenly of heart failure in March 2012, at... May 17, 2013
From Movies‘Why would a Starfleet admiral ask a 300-year-old frozen man for help?’’ asks Captain Kirk in his latest adventure — and, after sitting through two-plus hours of the mind-numbing “Star Trek Into Darkness,’’ damned if I... May 14, 2013
From MoviesThis fascinating documentary by Sarah Polley — the superb Canadian actress who directed the wonderful old-age drama “Away From Her’’ — starts out with her elderly father and siblings remembering the mother who died of... May 10, 2013
From MoviesOne of my favorite character actors, the ubiquitous Canadian Bruce Greenwood, has played a wide variety of characters in his long career, everything from John F. Kennedy (“Thirteen Days’’) to Madonna’s husband (“Swept... May 10, 2013
From MoviesBaz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” is the first must-see film of Hollywood’s summer season, if for no other reason than its jaw-dropping evocation of Roaring ’20s New York — in 3-D, no less. Given the director’s penchant... May 07, 2013
From NationalExcuse the pun, but it’s hard to warm up to “The Iceman,’’ a sketchy, flatly directed biopic based on one of the most compelling true crime stories out of New Jersey from the lengthy period when I lived and worked in... May 02, 2013
From MoviesPierce Brosnan plays a middle-aged businessman who finds love on a picturesque, sun-dappled Mediterranean island where he’s arrived for a wedding in “Love Is All You Need.” But rest assured, he does not bellow songs... May 02, 2013
From MoviesMatthew McConaughey continues one of Hollywood’s most unlikely comebacks with another triumph as a feral fugitive in “Mud,’’ a wonderful, piquant modern-day variation on “Huckleberry Finn.’’ The Huck in Jeff Nichols’... April 26, 2013
From MoviesThe Central Intelligence Agency, which has rarely been treated sympathetically by Hollywood, scored positive portrayals of its agents last year in both “Argo” and “Zero Dark Thirty.” But the agent in this interesting... April 26, 2013
From MoviesHow many Oscar winners does it take to totally screw up a comedy? The brutally unfunny, cringe-worthy “The Big Wedding’’ provides ample opportunities for Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams... April 25, 2013
From MoviesOne of the best films released so far this year, “At Any Price” signals the arrival of Iranian-American Ramin Bahrani in the ranks of major US directors. Switching gears from his small neo-realistic slices of the Big... April 23, 2013
From EntertainmentIs master illusionist (and sometimes actor) Ricky Jay putting one over on us and filmmakers Molly Bernstein and Alan Edelstein? This documentary is so entertaining that really doesn’t matter. The former Ricky Potash of... April 19, 2013
From MoviesTurns out the Mayans were wrong about predicting Armageddon in 2012, but that hasn’t deterred filmmakers one whit. Those who can’t wait for the all-star “This Is the End’’ in two months are welcome to this practically... April 12, 2013
From MoviesYou can take most movies labeled “true story’’ with a barrel of salt. But not “42,’’ an inspiring, old-school biopic that doesn’t pull any punches in depicting the ugly racism that Jackie Robinson faced on a daily basis... April 11, 2013
From MoviesAt 76, Robert Redford is at least a decade too old to play a former 1970s radical on the run from the FBI. But that’s far from the biggest problem with this all-star, self-directed thriller, in which his wanted poster... April 05, 2013
From MoviesJames Gandolfini was courted to play Ralph Kramden in the ill-fated 2005 big-screen version of “The Honeymooners” (Cedric the Entertainer got the part). Is it irony or coincidence that he ended up in a little indie shot... April 05, 2013
From MoviesTruthfully, if it hadn’t been my paying job as a critic to watch Fede Alvarez’s remake of “Evil Dead’’ all the way to the end, I probably would have headed for the exit door long before the point where somebody cuts off... April 04, 2013
From MoviesThe hippie heroine of this wacky Aussie comedy cheerfully theorizes that Australia was actually originally settled not by convicts but by mental patients — which may possibly explain the antics of Russell Crowe and... March 29, 2013
From MoviesJust in time for Easter, we have a movie about a young woman warrior possessed by a vaguely Christ-like extraterrestrial who bewitches a pair of smouldering hunks constantly debating whether to kill her or make out with... March 28, 2013
From MoviesHow low can she go? A dazed-looking Lindsay Lohan follows her recent terrible performance as Elizabeth Taylor by playing “herself’’ — doing a bad impression of Marilyn Monroe — in an inept, brutally unfunny collection... March 22, 2013
From MoviesThis week’s installment of forgotten Oscar nominees stars Minnie Driver (“Good Will Hunting’’) as a free-spirited high-school drama teacher staging a rock-opera version of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest’’ in 1976 Wales. ... March 22, 2013
From MoviesThe political passions that roiled 1969 America get boiled down to Nicholas Sparks-style mush in this silly romantic drama, seemingly designed primarily to offer up the shirtless, non-period-authentic abs of Liam... March 22, 2013
From MoviesThe beloved Tina Fey has some very funny moments in “Admission” as a tightly wound Princeton University admissions officer whose life is upended because of her long-ago college pregnancy. She’s so good that — up to a... March 21, 2013
From MoviesSteve Carell is fatally miscast as an arrogant, flamboyant third-rate magician in “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,’’ which by all rights should have been a second-rate Will Ferrell vehicle. Carell, as Burt, gives it... March 15, 2013
From MoviesJames Franco, all is forgiven. He failed miserably (except at the box office last week) in the title role of “Oz the Great and Powerful.’’ But he’s a hoot as a cornrowed rapper/drug dealer with metal teeth who bails out... March 15, 2013
From MoviesTommy Lee Jones, who should have won an Oscar for goosing audience interest with a riveting performance as a fiery abolitionist in the lumbering “Lincoln,’’ takes on another formidable historical character — Gen.... March 08, 2013
From Movies"I’m just not the man you wanted me to be," James Franco’s fraudulent wizard all-too-obviously points out in “Oz the Great and Powerful,’’ Disney’s long-threatened, Baum-bastic $200 million prequel to you-know-what. By... March 05, 2013
From MoviesTodd Robinson’s “Phantom’’ gives us a couple of things we haven’t seen in a while: the great Ed Harris and a Cold War submarine thriller. It’s not something you want to plunk down $12 for, but just diverting enough to... March 01, 2013
From MoviesA glorified TV movie, “Snitch” adds a novel new argument you can present to your kids when you’re lecturing them to stay away from drugs: Your old man might end up having to work as a delivery man for a cartel on your... February 21, 2013
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