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Machete
This unholy mess replaces the artful ambition of The American with torture, blood spray, kinky sex, twisted fun and a bizarro critique of U.S. policy on illegal immigration. It's a digital gorefest that expands on the faux trailer Robert Rodriguez included in Grindhouse, the 2007 exploitation epic he unleashed with ...
September 2, 2010 10:30 A.M. EDTThe American
It's a tale so used, abused and broken you can hear it wheezing. George Clooney's American gunslinger and gunmaker finds himself contemplating mortality, morality and the possibility of starting over. Clint Eastwood polished this redemption theme to burnished brilliance in Unforgiven. The subject is even tackled in the video-game Western ...
September 2, 2010 10:20 A.M. EDTGoing the Distance
Having phone sex with Drew Barrymore, Justin Long yells, "I want to come all over you." And so it goes in Going the Distance, a sappy-sweet romcom that seems to have been invaded by a screenwriter — one Geoff LaTulippe — with delusions that he's David Mamet. Peter Travers reviews ...
September 2, 2010 10:15 A.M. EDTA Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Heads up, Coen Brothers junkies: Chinese master Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers, Hero) has put his own spin on the brothers' 1985 Texas film noir, Blood Simple. Set in the deserts of ancient China, the film has colors that pop like a hooker's lip gloss, ...
September 2, 2010 10:10 A.M. EDTThe Last Exorcism
For a movie made from spare parts — take The Exorcist and attach to The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity — The Last Exorcism delivers the heebie-jeebie goods. In mock documentary style (the film purports to be found footage), director Daniel Stamm follows the Rev. Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), ...
August 26, 2010 8:20 A.M. EDTPiranha 3D
Piranha 3D ends the summer on a note of shamelessly entertaining B movie bottomfeeding. Man-eating fish, blood everywhere, full frontal nudity, girl-on-girl action, a hard R rating, tacky 3D added after the fact, actors who look like they want to kill their agents, and a chance to laugh at everything ...
August 26, 2010 8:15 A.M. EDTVampires Suck
This movie sucks more. Get more news, reviews and interviews from Peter Travers on The Travers Take.
August 26, 2010 8:10 A.M. EDTThe Tillman Story
This documentary succeeds triumphantly on so many levels that its full impact doesn't hit you until you have time to register its aftershocks. If the Army had its way, you would remember Cpl. Pat Tillman as an NFL star (he was a safety for the Arizona Cardinals) who died in ...
August 19, 2010 1:45 A.M. EDTThe Switch
It's subpar sitcom: Jennifer Aniston wants a baby. She uses a sperm donor. Jason Bateman loves her, but his passion is unrequited. So he drunkenly switches his sperm for the donor's. Seven years later, the kid (Thomas Robinson) shows up like Bateman's Mini-Me. Peter Travers reviews The Switch in his ...
August 18, 2010 4:30 P.M. EDTScott Pilgrim vs. The World
Unleashed imagination is a hell of a rare thing to find at the movies this play-it-safe summer. Inception, sure, but then what? Try Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a dazzling distillation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's six-volume graphic novel. Many graybeard critics don't understand what any sentient being past the age ...
August 12, 2010 12:00 P.M. EDTThe Expendables
Admit it. the idea of Sylvester Stallone assembling a team of inglorious bastards to kick ass in The Expendables is a testosterone turn-on. And who gives a crap that the man who was Rocky and Rambo is now 64. Or that Arnold Schwarzenegger, coaxed out of the governor's office for ...
August 12, 2010 11:50 A.M. EDTEat Pray Love
Having not read Elizabeth Gilbert's bestseller about her yearlong journey to Italy, India and Bali to achieve balance and spiritual enlightenment, I can only speak of the torture of watching the movie. Despite the star shine of Julia Roberts as Gilbert and the presence of gifted Glee creator Ryan Murphy ...
August 12, 2010 11:40 A.M. EDTAnimal Kingdom
Step up for a pulverizing Aussie crime drama that cuts to the dark heart of the killing machine known as family. Jacki Weaver sets the screen ablaze as Smurf, the bottle-blond mom from hell. Smurf's three sons, Pope (Ben Mendelsohn), Craig (Sullivan Stapleton) and Darren (Luke Ford), all do her ...
August 12, 2010 11:30 A.M. EDTThe Other Guys
Take a plot about two NYPD detectives who sit on the sidelines while other cops get all the shootouts and glam headlines. Kick it up a notch by casting Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as the losers who stumble into the big time. Spice with giddy action from the script ...
August 4, 2010 4:00 P.M. EDTMiddle Men
This one's coming in under the radar. Keep an eye out. Three guys get nutso rich by giving people what they want: something to jerk off to on the Internet. The time is 1995, and Wayne Beering (Giovanni Ribisi), an ex-veterinarian, and Buck Dolby (Gabriel Macht), a NASA technician, need ...
August 4, 2010 3:45 P.M. EDTTwelve
Picture Gossip Girl with hard drugs, R-rated sex and bloody shooting massacres at parties for privileged Manhattan teens. Wait, that sounds like fun. Peter Travers picks the season's can't-miss films and the ones with a bad vibe in his summer movie preview. Joel Schumacher's Twelve, from a much better 2002 ...
August 4, 2010 3:30 P.M. EDTCairo Time
Patricia Clarkson is a consummate actress, and she crafts something artful and ardent out of this fragile romance. Clarkson's Juliette is a Canadian magazine editor – her kids have flown the nest – in Cairo for the first time to meet up with her husband, Mark (Tom McCamus). The plan ...
August 4, 2010 3:14 P.M. EDTDinner for Schmucks
When Hollywood decides to remake French farce by Francis Veber, the result can be a champagne cocktail (La Cage Aux Folles spawning The Birdcage) or pâté de merde (Les Compères degenerating into Father's Day). Dinner for Schmucks, adapted from Veber's Le Dîner De Cons, falls somewhere in the middle. What ...
July 28, 2010 4:25 P.M. EDTGet Low
Robert Duvall is an indisputably great actor who approaches his iconic roles like a man with a secret. As Felix Bush, a Depression-era hermit out of the Tennessee backwoods, Duvall finds the soul of a character who has shrouded himself in mystery for four decades. That Felix waves a shotgun ...
July 28, 2010 4:15 P.M. EDTThe Extra Man
In this maddeningly uneven film version of Jonathan Ames' acclaimed 1998 novel, Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. Kline plays Henry Harrison, a hard-pressed Manhattan aristocrat (his income can't finance his tastes) who gets by being an extra man, a walker who escorts rich elderly ladies on the ...
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