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Two big films opening this Thanksgiving weekend, we have "The Muppets" and "Hugo" -- both flicks talk about the yearning to step back into the spotlight! "The Muppets" helped me found my rainbow connection

The sweet, sweet Emily Mortimer stars as Lisette, the flower seller, in the new Martin Scorsese film, "Hugo." She is the love interest of the station inspector played by Sacha Baron Cohen. Their romantic subplot provides one of the many hearts of the fantastic film.

Trick or treaters, snowstorm in the east, and Halloween be damned, "Puss in Boots" emerged victorious at the box-office against all odds. The DreamWorks 3D flick proved that this kitty has legs beyond the "Shrek" franchise.

Not even the most enormous movie marketing budget in the world could buy the perfect timing of Andrew Niccol's In Time, an allegory about the disparity between the rich and the poor in this country that's so confident it barely even bothers to masquerade as a thriller even though, supposedly, that's the way to sell tickets.

The idea that Machete, Robert Rodriguez’s grindhouse tribute, was inspired in part by his Spy Kids trilogy of the early aughts is an appealing one. Danny Trejo played a kid’s idea of a bad guy named Machete in the films, then helped carry a genre mutation of the character over into bloody B-movie territory.

What’s daring about The Myth of the American Sleepover, a modest, untroubled elegy for the passages of middle-American youth, is as straightforward as it is uncommon.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a nice little story about two women — or, rather, two sets of women living some 180 years apart

To watch my "X-Men: First Class" movie review. For my written review of the movie. For my interview with Jennifer Lawrence who plays Raven/Mystique.

The time is 1962, John F. Kennedy is our president, and his biggest problems are the Cold War and the impending Cuban Missile Crisis. But who knew that the X-Men mutants were part of that American history?

I had a great time picking my Top 10 Best Wedding Movies of all time, but did your favorite make my list?