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Review: 'Transcendence' is clunky and lifeless

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 12:15am
HAL has come a long way.

Review: 'Rio 2' dazzling but overloaded

Fri, 04/11/2014 - 12:15am
A vivid and delightful animated spectacle, “Rio 2” is chock-full of colorful 3-D wonder and jubilant musical numbers set against a tale of family dynamics and environmental dilemmas.

'Captain America' zippy but hollow

Fri, 04/04/2014 - 12:15am
For the latest Marvel release, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," most fan boys might prefer a Consumer Reports-style product review.

'Noah' is everything — except boring

Fri, 03/28/2014 - 12:30am
What to make of Darren Aronofsky's "Noah"? Perhaps that's the wrong question. Indeed, what NOT to make of "Noah"? Because it is so many things.

'Need for Speed' a thrilling stunt fest

Fri, 03/14/2014 - 12:15am
It takes a lot for a film based on a video game to impress a crowd these days, given the dazzling advancements in gaming technology. But "Need for Speed," based on the hit EA Entertainment rac…

Review: 'Mr. Peabody' is wild trip through time

Sun, 03/09/2014 - 12:15am
With “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” Dreamworks Animation sets its “Wayback Machine” to the early 1960s and charmingly revives one of the most popular features of the old “Rocky & Bullwinkle …

'300' sequel is prettier but less thrilling

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 12:15am
King Leonidas slipped into legend at the Battle of Thermopylae, martyred with 300 Spartans for the sake of Western Civilization and Spartan glory.

Review: Neeson keeps 'Non-Stop' from crashing

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 12:15am
Settling in for a film that takes place almost entirely on an airplane, as does the latest Liam Neeson action flick “Non-Stop,” one’s instinct is to search for the nearest sleeping pill.

Review: Don't throw 'Pompeii' on the ash heap

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 12:00am
Pity Paul W.S. Anderson. He's directed so many awful movies, most of them with "Resident Evil" and "Death Race" in the title, that Sony-Tristar ineptly elected to dump his "Pompeii" at the end…

'Lego Movie' has tiny toys, huge laughs

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 12:30am
Young and old fans alike know the joy of dumping a set of Legos on the floor and chucking that instruction manual. After all, throwing a portion of a helicopter on an incomplete race car could…

Review: Streep holds nothing back in brutal drama

Fri, 01/24/2014 - 12:15am
Planning some extended family dinners? Worried that folks might not get along, that festering tensions might surface, that people might get tipsy and say too much?

Review: 'Her' explores high-tech relationship

Fri, 01/17/2014 - 12:15am
How essential are physical and emotional connections when falling in love? What would you miss — looking into someone’s eyes, caressing them, tasting them? In “Her,” Spike Jonze’s futuristic e…

Bruno Mars, Dave Matthews, Lady Gaga heat up Summerfest's 2014 lineup

Thu, 01/16/2014 - 5:30am
Summerfest has already announced four big headlining shows for 2014.

Review: 'Wolf of Wall Street' a rich tale

Fri, 01/03/2014 - 12:15am
Digging into deep-pocket gluttony, Martin Scorsese’s dark comedy “The Wolf of Wall Street” highlights a world rich in drugs, fast cars and private jets. The American dream is amplified, yet th…

Review: Stiller offers dramatic turn in 'Mitty'

Fri, 12/27/2013 - 12:15am
Marketed as Ben Stiller’s bend toward drama, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” finds the actor, who also directed the feature, seemingly exuding super-human strength while jumping between buil…

Review: 'Saving Mr. Banks' a spoonful of sugar

Fri, 12/20/2013 - 12:00am
For most scribes who have toiled in the movie industry, portraying Hollywood as a healing paradise is roughly equivalent to regaling a lobster of the soothing properties of a boiling pot of water.

Review: 'Furnace' sets dark, heavy tone

Fri, 12/06/2013 - 12:15am
“Out of the Furnace” is an earnestly crafted, passionately acted working-class drama rusted over by its noble intentions of steel-town sympathizing.

Review: Girl power warms up 'Frozen'

Thu, 11/28/2013 - 12:15am
Instead of the bygone damsels in distress — yes we’re talking about you Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty — the female royals of “Frozen,” Disney’s latest animated wonder, are feisty,…

Review: 'Catching Fire' is major upgrade

Fri, 11/22/2013 - 12:15am
A considerable upgrade over the first “Hunger Games” movie, “Catching Fire” comes across more like a remake than a sequel.

Review: Film shows horrors of slavery

Fri, 11/15/2013 - 12:15am
We expect the lashings, the leg irons, the cruelty and injustice of it all. But what Steve McQueen’s brilliant “12 Years A Slave” does for our understanding of that “peculiar” institution is t…

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