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High School Makes Getting High Look Less Than Fun

Jul 1st, 2012

High School has such a winning premise that you want to send everyone involved in making it back to the drawing board for a do-over — just take it from the top, folks, and this time everyone actually have a good time.


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The Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges Mixes the Cerebral and the Silly, with Lots of Eye-Poking

Apr 17th, 2012

Bobby and Peter Farrelly’s The Three Stoogesis not particularly great, though it is possibly brilliant, a picture that goes beyond homage to become its own rambunctious invention — it’s one big eye-poke, with footnotes.

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Sex Is Messy — Even Without Pie — in American Reunion

Apr 6th, 2012

It ought to be no fun watching characters you came to know as randy, unruly high school students turn into grown-ups with jobs, families and crappy sex lives.

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Hockey Comedy Goon Doesn't Sermonize About Violence, And That's a Good Thing

Apr 3rd, 2012

Michael Dowse’s hockey comedy Goon is crude, violent and deeply enjoyable. It also offers the chance to see Liev Schreiber — a guy who’s played Hamlet, ferchrissakes — living it up as a bloodthirsty minor-league thug in the kind of ’70s eight-track-guy mustache that only hockey players, bless their hearts, still try to get away with.

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Do the Curly Shuffle! "Three Stooges" Trailer is Here! Are You Laughing? Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk?

Dec 21st, 2011

Earlier this year, when I interviewed the Farrelly brothers for "Hall Pass," they talked about their planned "Three Stooges" movie.

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Elizabeth Olsen Beguiles in "Martha Marcy May Marlene"

Oct 21st, 2011

The opening scene of Sean Durkin’s debut feature Martha Marcy May Marlene suggests we’re in for a big rusty bread pan’s worth of rural miserablism, and even though we’re not, the yeasty grayness of those early moments is clearly intentional

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