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Movies 2010:
Reviews of the latest films.
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- I'm a Mac, and I Was in E.T. Justin Long and Drew Barrymore in Going the Distance.
Sept. 2, 2010 - The Really Quiet American George Clooney in a contemplative spy thriller.
Sept. 1, 2010 - Soul Kitchen A slight but fun movie about bohemians and junk food.
Aug. 20, 2010 - The Switch Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman almost save this romantic comedy.
Aug. 19, 2010 - Scott Pilgrim vs. the World A delightful package of cinematic Pop Rocks.
Aug. 13, 2010 - Eat Pray Watch Julia Roberts on a year-long journey of self-discovery.
Aug. 13, 2010 - Step Up 3D A dance movie that breaks all the "dance movie" rules.
Aug. 6, 2010 - The Other Guys Don't call it a Will Ferrell comeback.
Aug. 5, 2010 - Dinner for Schmucks A comedy for idiots, about idiots.
July 29, 2010 - Salt Is Angelina Jolie She's icy, invincible, and a lot of fun.
July 23, 2010 - The Heat-Seeking Panther A few thoughts on the mannered weirdness of Nicolas Cage.
July 23, 2010 - Orlando Does Not Fade Revisiting Tilda Swinton's legendary "nonperformance."
July 21, 2010 - Inception Mind-blowing but not heart-moving.
July 14, 2010 - The Kids Are All Right The movie we've been waiting for all year.
July 8, 2010 - Summer Lovin', Happened So Fast I lift my spirits at the Grease Sing-A-Long.
July 7, 2010 - Teenagers in Love Twilight: Eclipse is a moving bulletin from the trenches of contemporary American girlhood.
June 30, 2010 - Prawn Porn and Hunger Strikes The operatic charms of I Am Love, the comical wisdom of I Was Born, But ...
June 25, 2010 - Quentin Tarantino's Barney Miller The winners of the invent-your-own-movie-based-on-an-'80s-TV-show contest.
June 24, 2010 - Cheerful yet Vaguely Malevolent Tom Cruise flirts with self-parody in Knight & Day.
June 23, 2010 - Get Him to the Shrink Jonah Hill nurses a serious Oedipal complex in Cyrus.
June 18, 2010 - Tear Story The wonderful highs and lows of Toy Story 3.
June 17, 2010 - The A-Team Was this movie scripted by 8-year-old boys?
June 11, 2010 - The Karate Kid Amazingly, this remake does not sweep the leg of the original.
June 11, 2010 - Get Him to the Greek A buddy comedy that leaves out the buddy part.
June 3, 2010 - The Not So Fresh Prince Jerry Bruckheimer's Prince of Persia is derivative and dumb. But also kind of fun.
May 28, 2010 - Alejandro Amenábar's Agora A swords-and-sandals epic about the fall of Alexandria.
May 28, 2010 - Sex and the City 2 Even worse than the first movie.
May 27, 2010 - MacGruber Yet another SNL-inspired script flops on the big screen.
May 21, 2010 - Holy Rollers Jesse Eisenberg plays a Hasidic drug dealer in Kevin Asch's feature-film debut.
May 20, 2010 - Ken Loach's Looking for Eric A gritty social-realist movie about an imaginary friendship.
May 14, 2010 - Ridley Scott's Robin Hood Not as terrible as it could have been.
May 13, 2010 - Babies! It's like a YouTube video with high production values.
May 7, 2010 - Iron Man 2 Robert Downey Jr. suits up for a sequel.
May 6, 2010 - Oceans Crazy-looking fish, beautifully photographed.
April 23, 2010 - The Back-up Plan Jennifer Lopez's new romantic comedy.
April 23, 2010 - The Secret in Their Eyes Imagine a really long, really awesome episode of Law & Order set in Buenos Aires.
April 16, 2010 - The Dubious Charms of Kick-Ass Was it a good idea to cross Tarantino with a Y.A. novel?
April 15, 2010 - Taking the iPad Pill Watching The Matrix on Apple's new rectangle.
April 9, 2010 - Date Night The funniest comedy of the year.*
April 9, 2010 - Half Mortal, Totally Stupid The gods battle in Clash of the Titans.
April 1, 2010 - When Nudity Isn't Enough Atom Egoyan's erotic thriller, Chloe.
March 26, 2010 - Hot Tub Time Machine This should have been great.
March 25, 2010 - Teenage Wasteland Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in The Runaways.
March 19, 2010 - Bitter Focker Ben Stiller looks for love in Greenberg.
March 18, 2010 - Take This Bong Hit Bong Joon-Ho's new film, Mother, is terrific.
March 12, 2010 - Oh, So That's Where They Were! Matt Damon goes looking for WMD in The Green Zone.
March 11, 2010 - Alice in Wonderland Don't follow Tim Burton down this rabbit hole.
March 5, 2010 - The Crazies What's missing from the latest well-made horror film.
Feb. 26, 2010 - The Ghost Writer Roman Polanski has made a great thriller—damn it.
Feb. 19, 2010 - I'm Surrounded by Crazy People Leo DiCaprio scrunches his face in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.
Feb. 18, 2010 - Wuthering Wolfman The fog, the fur, the failure to entertain.
Feb. 12, 2010 - Valentine's Day Fine, mush your boring faces together already.
Feb. 11, 2010 - Percy Jackson & the Olympians Derivative book, meet cornball director!
Feb. 11, 2010 - The Red Riding Trilogy Like The Wire but British.
Feb. 5, 2010 - Dear John This is the hardest letter I've ever had to write …
Feb. 4, 2010 - 44 Inch Chest It's no Sexy Beast.
Jan. 29, 2010 - Goddam Hollywood Phonies Catcher in the Rye was never adapted, but its influence is everywhere.
Jan. 29, 2010 - Rock Bottom Can't believe I watched Tooth Fairy.
Jan. 22, 2010 - I Want a Range Life The beautiful sheep of Sweetgrass.
Jan. 22, 2010 - If I Don't Write a Good Business Plan, My Child Will Die I sort of liked Extraordinary Measures.
Jan. 22, 2010 - Fish Tank An unsettlingly good British film about a teenage girl in a housing project.
Jan. 14, 2010 - Body and Soul The appeal of an Eric Rohmer film.
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