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Winter's Tale opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Winter’s Tale (PG-13) Adapted from Mark Helprin’s novel, this romance stars Colin Farrell as an Irish burglar who determines to use his powers of...
Zoey Deutch wields a silver stake in Vampire Academy.

Blood and Waters

Late in the supernatural teen comedy Vampire Academy, one of the gossip girls at St. Vladimir’s (Sami Gayle) tries to start a fight with...
Joel Kinnaman has mixed emotions on his homecoming to Abbie Cornish in RoboCop.

RoboCop Cleans Up

Can a movie comment on its own remake? It almost feels that way, as if the original RoboCop, with its satire of ’80s excesses...
The Attorney opens Friday in Grapevine.

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Attorney (NR) Kind of like a Korean Erin Brockovich. Song Kang-ho stars in this courtroom drama about a real-life tax lawyer who stumbles...
The fellowship of the brick: Wyldstyle, Emmet, and Vitruvius take a ride in the Batjet in The Lego Movie.

Hit the Bricks

You’re right to be suspicious of a movie based on a set of wildly popular children’s toys, and yet The Lego Movie is far...
George Clooney shows a slide of the Ghent Altarpiece to the president in The Monuments Men.

The Art of War

The true story of how a team of artists and art historians fought to keep the Nazis from looting or destroying priceless works of...

R.I.P., Philip Seymour Hoffman

Man, I hate heroin addiction so much right now. Imagine that sentence read in the magnificent, deep, rumbling voice of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and...
Labor Day opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Labor Day (PG-13) Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) directs this adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel starring Kate Winslet as a depressed mother...
Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson share a couch and a love of beer in Drinking Buddies.

Odds and Ends

I spend every December catching up with films that I didn’t see in the theater, and every year I find interesting ones that never...
I, Frankenstein opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: I, Frankenstein (PG-13) Aaron Eckhart stars in this supernatural thriller as the mad scientist’s creation who has survived into the modern age to take...