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  • "1408" downplays gore for less predictable chills

    2007-06-18 15:46

    Any film that uses the Carpenters' pop hit "We've Only Just Begun" for scares instead of sentimentality must be credited with a quirky sense of humor.

  • "DOA" brings video-game vixens to big-screen life

    2007-06-18 14:37

    Seen opening day -- forget about press screenings, of course -- "DOA: Dead or Alive" did manage to produce feelings of giddy fun, if only briefly.

  • `Ocean's' sequel plays same hand

    2007-06-06 13:24

    The third roll of the dice for George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and their merry band of casino crooks is an almost certain winner for its makers, a break-even deal at best for audiences.

  • "Day" delivers dazzling surface, little else

    2007-06-05 20:48

    "Day Watch," a successor to the Russian sci-fi extravaganza "Night Watch" (2004), is every bit as messy and moronic as the original film.

  • `Knocked Up' is a knockout

    2007-05-30 10:11

    Everything you've heard about "Knocked Up" is true: It's even more riotously and consistently hilarious than its predecessor, Judd Apatow's 2005 sleeper hit "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," with even greater heart.

  • Even Depp can't save clogged 'Pirates'

    2007-05-25 14:24

    It takes an age before Johnny Depp shows his face in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," and when he does, it's the tip of his nose that looms into screen left, eventually succeeded by a flaring nostril.

  • Review: Third 'Shrek' feels hackneyed

    2007-05-15 08:47

    "Shrek the Third" begins with a death, and from there the movie itself steadily dies.

  • Review: Spidey's web too long this time

    2007-05-01 10:01

    Forgiveness is on the minds of many characters in "Spider-Man 3." They ponder if they're capable of offering it, worthy of receiving it — and whether, as the saying goes, it will ultimately prove divine.

  • Fracture

    2007-04-30 11:18

    There is a shot of Ryan Gosling in the new crime thriller "Fracture," tooling down a residential street in Los Angeles behind the wheel of a well-used red BMW.

  • Vacancy

    2007-04-30 11:22

    "Vacancy" begins in a world of darkness on a road to nowhere, and it soon proves to be the kind of sleazily effective horror or genre movie Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino were trying to make in "Grindhouse."

  • Hot Fuzz

    2007-04-24 17:12

    In its climactic village assault, the English comedy "Hot Fuzz" risks becoming the excessive, slow-mo-slaughter affair it's satirizing.

  • 'Disturbia' provides genuine chills

    2007-04-16 10:35

    Disturbia is a savagely efficient eyewitness-to-murder thriller, a Rear Window for the YouTube generation.

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