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Best buds!

Best buds!

The buddy movie has been a staple of American cinema since the early days, and some believe the pairing of two characters — often men, often mismatched — can be traced to vaudeville stage shows and even classic literature, such as...   Full Story

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  • Sunrise settles

    Sunrise settles

    What happens after the couple you’ve been rooting for gets their happily ever after? It’s been nine years since we last saw Celine and Jesse, the...  

  • Pyramid scheme

    Pyramid scheme

    No movie has ever generated as many headlines as 1963’s “Cleopatra’’ — because of the scandalous affair between stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard...  

  • 'Star Trek Into Darkness' is lost in space

    'Star Trek Into Darkness' is lost in space

    ‘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...  

  • Greta Gerwig shines in the effervescent but lightweight ‘Frances Ha’

    Greta Gerwig shines in the effervescent but lightweight ‘Frances Ha’

    Near the end of Noah Baumbach’s lightly enchanting “Frances Ha,” the title character and her best friend Sophie are lying next to each other. Frances...  

  • How Greta Gerwig is channeling her inner Diane Keaton

    How Greta Gerwig is channeling her inner Diane Keaton

    A new Queen of Quirk is in town. Greta Gerwig is quickly conquering the indie film world with her laid-back look, goofy persona and Everygirl roles....  

  • ‘Black Rock’ channels ‘Deliverance’ with a camping trip gone wrong

    ‘Black Rock’ channels ‘Deliverance’ with a camping trip gone wrong

    Three buddies on a wilderness excursion find themselves in dire straits after an unfortunate encounter with some local hunters. No dueling banjos...  

  • 'Bidder 70' review

    As dully earnest, disorganized and self-righteous as an editorial in a student newspaper, the doc “Bidder 70” relates the story of one Tim...  

  • Vivid view of Verdi in 'Becoming Traviata'

    Vivid view of Verdi in 'Becoming Traviata'

    There are warhorses, and then there are 10-ton granite monuments like “La Traviata,” Giuseppe Verdi’s 1852 opera about courtesan Violetta’s doomed...  

  • '33 Postcards' review

    Were it not for the staccato bursts of violence, this Chinese-Australian co-production about how an adorable orphan brings love into the life of a...  

  • 'Hating Breitbart' review

    This is less a documentary than a wholly uncritical celebration — with scant personal details — of Andrew Breitbart, the pugnacious conservative...  

  • ‘Augustine’ review

    ‘Augustine’ review

    Hysteria, that 19th-century catchall women’s malady, is back at the cinema with “Augustine,” the debut feature from French director Alice Winocour....  

  • 'Pieta' review

    ‘Pieta’’ is the newest masterpiece of sex and brutality by South Korean wild man Kim Ki-duk. Winner of the top prize at the prestigious Venice Film...  

  • 'Erased' review

    Expat tech-whiz Ben Logan (Aaron Eckhart) seems normal, apart from a scarred back that’s straight out of a David Cronenberg movie. His wife is dead,...  

  • Set phasers to dumb

    Set phasers to dumb

    In one of the more memorable scenes from 2009’s “Star Trek,” a young James T. Kirk speeds through the desert behind the wheel of a vintage Corvette...  

  • Summer movies prove it's the end of the world as we know it

    Summer movies prove it's the end of the world as we know it

    Movie: “It’s a Disaster” Release Date: Out now Stars: Julia Stiles, David Cross, America Ferrera Plot: Los Angelenos gather for Sunday brunch so the...  

  • Tyler Perry-produced ‘Peeples’ pits rich family vs. poor schlub in a movie-length sitcom

    Tyler Perry-produced ‘Peeples’ pits rich family vs. poor schlub in a movie-length sitcom

    So my dream came true. Craig Robinson, one of the funniest comic actors working, finally got to be the leading man in a movie . . . produced by Tyler...  

  • A truly great ‘Gatsby’

    A truly great ‘Gatsby’

    Baz 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...  

  • 'What Richard Did' review

    'What Richard Did' review

    Director Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film has its roots in the notorious death of a teenager outside a Dublin nightclub, later detailed in Kevin Power...  

  • 'Aftershock' review

    A weird mash-up of disaster, horror and dystopia genre pictures, “Aftershock” fails to make the Earth move. “Hostel” director Eli Roth amusingly...  

  • 'Stories We Tell' review

    'Stories We Tell' review

    This fascinating documentary by Sarah Polley — the superb Canadian actress who directed the wonderful old-age drama “Away From Her’’ — starts out...  

  • 'Java Heat' review

    The terrorism thriller “Java Heat” sure is violent. I don’t even want to tell you how viciously Mickey Rourke mangles the French accent he’s trying...  

  • 'Sightseers' review

    'Sightseers' review

    What begins as an alert and witty barbed satire degenerates into a senseless bloodbath in the black comedy “Sightseers.” Alice Lowe and Steve Oram...  

  • 'Venus And Serena' review

    The Williams sisters are one — well, two — of the best stories ever in professional sports, coming from South Central LA to take the rarefied, lily...  

  • 'And Now A Word From Our Sponsor' review

    'And Now A Word From Our Sponsor' review

    One of my favorite character actors, the ubiquitous Canadian Bruce Greenwood, has played a wide variety of characters in his long career, everything...  

  • 'No One Lives' review

    It took about three days to capture Richard Speck, who murdered eight nurses in one night. That’s because Speck, like most mass killers, was stupid...  

  • 'He's Way More Famous Than You' review

    'He's Way More Famous Than You' review

    Halley Feiffer, “daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist Jules Feiffer,” had a brief spurt of fame with a part in “The Squid and Whale” in 2005....  

  • Baz wants Leo for Hamlet adaptation: report

    Baz wants Leo for Hamlet adaptation: report

    Aussie director Baz Luhrmann wants to team up with Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio for a third time – in an adaptation of "Hamlet."  Luhrmann...  

  • Gatsby's golden girl

    Gatsby's golden girl

    Every so often comes a role that’s catnip to all the beautiful young actresses in Hollywood. The trophy role of the 1930s was Scarlett O’Hara of...  

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