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50/50 (R) I have no reservations about
a comedic (probably best termed dra-
medic) take on a 27-year-old's struggle
to beat cancer so long as it stars
Joseph Gordon-levitt, Seth Rogen as
the buddy and Oscar nominee Anna
Kendrick (Up in the Air) as Levitt's
therapist I enjoyed director Jonathan
Levine's debut. The Wackness, enough
to warrant curiosity in his follow-up
•ABDUCTION (PG-13) Taylor
Lautner. whose apparent acting idol
was Derek Zoolander, has translated his
however-many-pack into a Taylor-made
bomb Abduction attempts to force
moviegoers fo recognize Lautner as a
superstar at gunpoint, and it's as ter
rible a movie as you suspect it to be
AMELIE (R) 2001 Jean-Pierre
Jeunel's quirky, lovely fairy tale
brought Audrey Tautou to the atten
tion of American filmgoers as Amelie
Poulain. an innocent young Parisian
waitress looking to help those around
her Surprisingly, love awaits her in
the guise of Nino (filmmaker Mattheiu
Kassovitz). a guy fascinated by pass
port booth photos who works in a
porn shop J'adore Amelie. one of the
loveliest, sweetest films I've ever seen
Nominated for five Academy Awards,
including Best Foreign Language Film
and Best Original Screenplay.
BAD TEACHER (R) As very bad
teacher Elizabeth Halsey. Cameron
Diaz reminds the moviegoing public
that there was something about Mary,
and she had a lot to do with it Forced
to return to a 10b she hates at which
she is not very good. Elizabeth treats
her students and coworkers with equal
disdain, until she sets her sights on
wooing rich new sub. Scott (Justin
Tirnberlake). with a boob job she must
rather questionably finance
CONTAGION PG-13) Steven
Soderberghs new What i! .” epi
demic chiller is an excellent feature-
length Twilight Zone ‘ What if a deadly
new, highly communicable virus
entered the population 7 How quickly
and effectively would the world's
governments and health agencies (rep
resented by Laurence Fishburne. Kate
Winslet. Bryan Cranston and Marion
Cotillard) respond 7
CRAZY. STUPiD. LOVE. (PG-13)
What a crazy, stupid idea 1 Write a
mature comedy script Cast pretty.
talented, appropriately aged stars.
Only almost everyone who doesn't
greenlight studio projects Steve Carell
stars as Cal Weaver whose wife, Emily
(Julianne Moore), suddenly bombs
him with a divorce pronouncement
that leads him to a local bar where
Cal meets inveterate womanizer Jacob
(Ryan Gosling)
THE DEBT (PG-13) An above-average
old people action-thriller that could
have been so much more. The Debt
boasts an Academy Award nominated
director John Madden (Shakespeare
in Love), a script by X-Men: First
Class' Matthew Vaughn, music by
Thomas Newman AND a cast of Helen
Mirren. "It Girl’ Jessica Chastain Sam
Worthington. Ciaran Hinds and Tom
Wilkinson.
• DOLPHIN TALE (PG) I am not a
sucker for sentimental animal mov
ies Were I, then I am sure Dolphin
Tale would have fit the bill. A lonely
12-year-old Sawyer (Nathan Gamble),
rescues a dolphin (real tail-less dol
phin, Winter, as herself) caught in a
crab trap With the help of a marine vet
(Harry Conmck Jr ), his daughter (Cuzi
Zuehlsdorff) and a doctor who special
izes in prosthetics (Morgan Freeman).
Sawyer helps save the dolphin by
fashioning a fake appendage It's far too
average to require parents to shell out
3D ticket money just so the kiddies can
get their cute animal fix
DREAM HOUSE (PG-13) Will Atenton
(Darnel Craig) and his family move
to a new town, but their new house
has a tragic history A mother and her
children were murdered in their new
residence Though everyone else sus
pects the murdered woman's surviving
husband, Will and a local resident. Ann
Patterson (Naomi Watts), discover the
truth may be more disturbing
DRIVE (R) Drive slides through the
alleys and sidestreets of its criminal
Los Angeles with the precision, skill
and style of its nameless Driver (Ryan
Gosling), calied the Kid by his boss/
handler, Shannon (Bryan Cranston)
Stuntman by day. getaway man tor hire
by night, the driver slides his leather
driving gloves on and gets his bumpers
bloody when a cute neighbor (Carey
Mulligan) with a little tyke runs afoul of
some local toughs Drives leading ttie
race lor my favorite film of 2011
FINAL DESTINATION 5 (R) Do you
enjoy watching creatively gory death
scenes 7 How about creatively gory
death scenes in 3D? If you answered
yes. Final Destination 5 is handcrafted
from the dismembered limbs of hun
dreds of previous slasher victims
THE GUARD (R) Brendan Gleeson
and Don Cheadle star in Ned Kelly
writer John Michael McDonagh's
feature debut, an 80s-sounding buddy
cop-corn He's an unorthodox Irish
policeman (Gleeson); he's an uptight
FBI agent (Cheadle). International
cocaine smugglers better watch out
when they begrudgingly team up This
Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee
won the Berlin International Film
Festival's Honorable Mention for Best
Debut Film and the Audience Award
from the Sarajevo Film Festival.
HARRY POTTER AND THE
DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG-
13) It's over The final battle rages over
the and through the hallowed halls of
Hogwarts as Harry (Daniel Radclitfe).
Hermione (Emma Watson), Ron (Rupert
Grint) attempt to end Voldemorts
(Ralph Fiennes) evil reign HP7.2 is
filled with blood, death and violence yet
is still fit for the entire family (besides
the littlest ones)
THE HELP (PG-13) An audience-
wooer a la The Blind Side this '60s
Mississippi set melodramedy will draw
raves from your mother, grandmother,
aunt, the ladies of the church, etc. but
the whitewashed world of The Help
lacks the proper depth to leel r eal
HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) Nick
(Jason Bateman) works for an evil
corporate shark played perfectly by
Kevin Spacey Dale (Charlie Day of the
best sitcom on TV, “It s Always Sunny
in Philadelphia”) is getting seriously
sexually harassed by his seriously
hot dentist boss (Jennifer Amston).
Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) answers to a
cokehead douchebag that resembles a
balding Colin Farrell (Farrell) With the
help of a murder consultant with a very
blue name (Jamie Foxx), these three
friends decide the solution to their
employment problems is to murder
eacti other s boss
I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES
IT (PG-13) This imitation Carrie
Bradshaw chick flick—it even has the
cloying inner monologue just right-
might fool its "Sex and the City”
clienlele. but no one else cares how
SJP does it Sarah Jessica Parker is
Kate Reddy, a working mom who's sad
because she’s missing out on her two
kids' big moments (first haircuts and
such) but unwilling to stop doing what
it takes to survive in a "man's world ”
• KILLER ELITE (R) Nothing against
Killer Elite I liked Killer Elite However.
I couldn t remember I'd seen Killer
Elite three hours after it -was over. What
seems like another kinetic actioner
m Jason Statham's interchangeable
(besides the two hits of Crank) is
actually a pretty solid exercise in real
men (Statham. Clive Owen, Robert De
Niro and a bunch of British toughs)
playing war
somehow finds a way to throw in the
Indonesian folklore, while throwing out
the time traveling cyborgs.
LOS DUE SE QUEDAN (NR) 2008
This moving documentary examines
what happens to those who remain
(the English translation of the title)
when family members migrate North
for work Jaime Chavez, a graduate
student from Romance Languages, will
introduce the screening, and a Q&A
will follow.
MANHATTAN SHORT FILM
FESTIVAL (NR) Cin6 brings the larg
est short film festival in the world to
Athens with the 10 best short films
selected from 598 entries representing
48 countries The festival is interactive
as well Audience members aren't just
passive viewers, they're judges, loo.
MARGARET (R) After a loooooong
time on the shelf (Margaretwas filmed
in 2005), Iwo-time Oscar nominee
Kenneth Lonergan's follow-up to the
fabulous You Can Count on Me is
finally seeing the dark of a theater. With
Anna Paquin.
• MONEYBALL (PG-13) Based on
Michael Lewis' bestseller, director
Bennet Miller's follow-up to the Oscar
winning Capote actually makes base
ball statistics interesting Oakland A's
General Manager Billy Beane (Brad
Pitt) attempts to build a championship
ballclub through On Base and Slugging
Percentage rather than traditional
scouting. Does it work 7 Anyone famil
iar with Major League Baseball already
knows the answer Moneyball isn't
quite this year's The Social Network.
SARAH'S KEY (PG-13) A Parisian
journalist (Kristin Scott ThomasLinves-
tigating the notorious 1942 Vel' d'Hiv
Roundup becomes embroiled in the
mystery of a young girl whose family
ties were severed by the Holocaust.
With MSIusine Mayance as 10-year-old
Sarah Starzynski and Niels Arestrup
SENNA (PG-13) The late Brazilian
Formula One racer Ayrton Senna gets
the documentary treatment in this film
from BAFTA Award winner and Cannes
Film Festival nominee Asif Kapadia
(The Warrior and the short. The Sheep
Thief). The three-time F1 champion,
revered as a saint in his native country,
died like NASCAR superstar Dale
Earnhardt, felled on live television by
the sport he loved.
SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE
WORLD (PG) Robert Rodriguez’s
family espionage franchise is reborn,
and Miramax is hoping for this flick
to be a big hit. A former spy (Jessica
Alba) returns to battle the villainous
Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) who is
plotting to rule the world Expect
appearances from series regulars
STRAW DOGS (R) I have a sneaking
suspicion this remake of the violent
1971 Sam Peckinpah classic will play
a lot differently in the Deep South than
filmmaker Rod Lurie might expect
Character identification issues might
abound, giving this Straw Dogs a
level-unavailable to the original (to
anyone besides small town Northern
Englishmen). Hah-vuhd educated
Hollywood screenwriter David Sumner
(James Marsden) and his actress wife,
Amy (Kate Bosworth). return to her
backwoods Mississippi hometown
TAKE SHELTER (R) Curtis Laforche
(Michael Shannon. Revolutionary
Road) is having apocalyptic visions
Now he must decide who to protect his
family from: a coming storm or him
Shannon has proven to be a command
ing presence in such works as Bug.
"Boardwalk Empire” and more
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE
MOON (PG-13) What exactly did
Michael Bay think was wrong with the
last Transformers movie? Whatever he
fixed made Transformers 3 cringingly
bad and the worst of the bunch. After
defeating the Deceptions, the Autobots
help pursue the U S. government's
global agenda until a lunar discovery
brings about a cataclysmic battle that
only the Bols and a select group of
Americans can win.
WARRIOR (PG-13) Warrior is to The
Fighter what MMA. remains to box
ing. for the majority of the population
that still mistakes Mixed Martial Arts
for some sort of wrestling offshoot.
Don't expect Gavin O'Connor's clichfid
follow-up to pick up any Oscar noms,
but dude knows his sports movies.
WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (R) Anna
Faris searches her past 20 loves to see
if one of them may have been her one
and only The cast is a strong one..
THE WHISTLEBLOWER (R)
Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz
(The Constant Gardener) stars as
Kathryn Bolkovac. the Nebraska cop
who outed the United Nations' com
plicity in the cover up of cases of sex
trafficking.
ZOOKEEPER (PG) Kevin James is
Griffin, a nice guy who nicely lakes
care of nice animals for a nice living.
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advenlure of Dragon Warrior Po (v
Jack Black, who is better heard than
seen) and Ihe Furious Five has more
visual inventiveness than it does comic
or narrative combined
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