It could have been much worse. Of all the 2011-released movies I saw this year (a little more than a hundred), most fell into the “merely OK” category. Like many of you, I chose not see some of the year’s obvious clunkers, like Adam Sandler’s cross-dressing “Jack and Jill” or the new “Chipmunks” movie. And, […]
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Adventure is out there this Christmas weekend, and not just the high-tech gadgetry and stunts found in the latest “Mission: Impossible” film. The first of two Steven Spielberg movies this holiday season, “The Adventures of Tintin” is a motion-capture thrill ride with the energy and fun of Spielberg’s Indiana Jones franchise and the Saturday morning
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Let those teenagers have their “Twilight” saga. And let the kids suffer through another one of those wretched “Alvin and the Chipmunks” sequels. The movie I want to see again and again this holiday season is “The Muppets.” “The Muppets” won’t win any awards, and one could make a fair case that it isn’t even
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