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...Wedding Crashers, is a nifty performer. Her charms are enough to keep the movie - entering the marketplace just as the country's financial situation becomes truly dire - from being criminally distasteful. She's got that rare gift for making slapstick seem organic. Confessions runs her through the chick-flick moves of endearment (walk into glass, run in high heels, spill food on self and others), but there are a few scenes where she cuts loose and we get to see her Lucille Ball-style warmth and wackiness. It's a simple pleasure to watch Becky attempt to retrieve a wrongly...
...particularly awkward scene of the Valentine’s Day chick flick, “He’s Just Not That Into You,” Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) sits on a sofa with her friend, Alex (Justin Long). Alex, yawning, announces that he is going to retire to bed, and Gigi immediately follows up with, “Is that an invitation?” Such cringe-inducing moments are not rare in the movie; however, unlike the typical chick flick, the film uses these episodes to translate genuine sentiment. Despite the ever-present threat of takeover...
...Jean-Claude Van Damme stomped skull like he was trying to break the bank. But the era of the action star is long gone, and despite Van Damme’s prolific career over the last two decades, the Muscles from Brussels hasn’t made a memorable flick since his too-cool-to-be-cool turn as Guile in the movie version of popular 90s video game “Street Fighter.” “JCVD” is like nothing anyone could have expected from Van Damme. A brilliantly entertaining confessional, the movie...
...actress - and instead competed against herself for best actress - we'll never know. And France's I've Loved You So Long (starring British actress Kristin Scott Thomas, who speaks fluent French) raised a few eyebrows when it beat odds on Oscar favorite Waltz With Bashir and Italian Mafia flick Gomorrah to the foreign language film award. (See pictures of some of the greatest ever animated movies...
...While Slumdog does succumb to this weakness, it compares favorably to the average Bollywood flick, which lacks both narrative credibility and discernible substance. The result is that a nation with so many challenges and so vibrant a film culture produces so many movies that feature meaningless plots punctuated only by feel-good song-and-dance routines. Indeed, it’s not that the movies fail to penetrate the surface—it’s that they don’t even capture it. And so it has fallen to talented British producers to make movies that actually bring...