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| • Review: Dinner for Schmucks an Awkward Dinner Party You Can Skip |
 Review in a Hurry: Paul Rudd and Steve Carell reteam for their third outing (40 Year Old Virgin, Anchorman), a remake of the French farce The Dinner Game, about a smart guy who gets in over his...
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| • Review: Charlie St. Cloud a Smart, Cliché-Free Tearjerker |
 Review in a Hurry: Sort of a Sixth Sense without that freaky, scary feel, Charlie St. Cloud is a well-crafted tearjerker with a grown-up performance from Zac Efron. If you don't mind risking...
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| • Review: Ramona and Beezus a Wise and Whimsical Good Time |
 Review in a Hurry: Ramona and Beezus is really more about Ramona, but since star Selena Gomez plays Beezus, her marquee mention must have been a requirement from the suits in the corner...
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| • Review: Salt a Flavorless, Muddled Mess |
 Review in a Hurry: You'd hope an action thriller called Salt might at least have some kick to it and raise your blood pressure a bit. But this muddle, starring Angelina Jolie as a maybe,...
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| • (Mostly) Spoiler-Free Review: Inception a Total Dream |
 Review in a Hurry: It's tough to review a movie when everyone you mention the title to sticks their fingers in their ears and goes "LALALALA! No spoilers!" So all we'll say to...
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| • Review: Sorcerer's Apprentice a Magical Time at the Movies |
 Review in a Hurry: It's some kind of magic. Against many odds, a big-budget Jerry Bruckheimer remake—of a story best known with Mickey Mouse in the lead!—manages to hit every mark...
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| • Review: Despicable Me Formulaic but Gleefully Fun |
 Review in a Hurry: A self-proclaimed supervillain plots to steal the moon but then encounters an even greater challenge: caring for three adorable orphan girls. You gotta watch out for those...
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| • Review: Predators a Spinoff Done the Right Way |
 Review in a Hurry: The spinoff movies featuring those acid-bleeding aliens didn't work out so well, so this time, the big, disappearing, dreadlocked hunters from outer space must face off...
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| • Review: The Last Airbender Epically Boring |
 Review in a Hurry: In a martial-arts world divided into four elemental kingdoms—fire, water, air and earth—a kid with the ability to manipulate all the elements has the power to bring...
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| • Review: Eclipse Just as Bad as Other Twilight Movies |
 Review in a Hurry: The Twi-hards will adore The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, no matter what. It's made for people who thought the first movie was quality cinema, after all, and for them, our grade...
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| • Review: Grown Ups Just Needs to Grow Up, Already |
 Review in a Hurry: Oh grow up already! In this lazy, lame-o comedy, five best buds reunite some 30 years after their middle-school basket ball championship and reminisce about those glory days....
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| • Review: Knight and Day Coulda Been a Contender |
 Review in a Hurry: More of an old-fashioned screwball comedy than an action blockbuster, Knight and Day features Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz at their most charismatic, charming each...
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| • Review: Jonah Hex a Fistful of Suck |
 Review in a Hurry: Not unlike Ghost Rider, Jonah Hex takes a gothic, moody, western-inspired comic book, and eliminates all traces of subtlety in the awkward transition to the big screen. Josh...
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| • Review: Toy Story 3 Is Terrific—What Did You Expect? |
 Review in a Hurry: Another sentimental journey with some old friends, new scene-stealers and a powerful, heartfelt mix of sugar and spice. (Let's just say, there ain't a dry eye in the...
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| • Review: The Karate Kid Kicks and Misses |
 Review in a Hurry: Like a kung-fu master poised on one leg, a movie must have balance—between action and emotion, heart and head, fast and slow. This rebooted Kid wobbles, flails, and...
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| • Review: The A-Team is All Kinds of Campy and Cool |
 Review in a Hurry: Pretty much everything you could have hoped for in an A-Team movie, this big-screen update of the '80s TV show hits all its marks. True-to-character performances, wacky...
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| • Review: Killers as Funny as Getting Shot in the Head |
 Review in a Hurry: Insecure hottie Katherine Heigl meets suave, muscular Ashton Kutcher during a vacation in the South of France, and she marries him swiftly. But nobody's perfect, and his...
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| • Review: Big Laughs + No Surprises = Get Him to the Greek |
 Review in a Hurry: Dorky intern (Jonah Hill) and cool rock star (Russell Brand) are forced together in a race against time to get the latter to his designated rock concert. As you might expect,...
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| • Review: Splice is Smart, Strangely Sexy Sci-Fi |
 Review in a Hurry: Two wunderkind geneticists create a new lifeform that's part human, part creepoid. It quickly evolves into something very cool, and so does this creature feature,...
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| • Review: Marmaduke a Worn-Out Pelt of Dog Fur |
 Review in a Hurry: You can see the ending a mile away: Big dog creates chaos and annoys owner, but lovably teaches everyone about friendship and acceptance. A lame, worn-out story wrapped in a ...
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