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Action/Adventure  Rated: R
"Trejo has one gnarled, weather-beaten mug, as if he had a staring contest with the sun - and won."
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The American
Thriller  Rated: R
"...cleverly, disconcertingly hushed."
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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Documentary  Rated: R
"This is a fiercely intelligent, maniacally driven, crushingly funny comedian who comes across as less a human being than a sentient career."
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Piranha 3D
Horror  Rated: R
"The definitive film for this latest 3-D era: It exploits sex and gore the same way studios are exploiting moviegoers with 3-D tickets."
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The Switch
Romantic Comedy  Rated: PG-13
"A textbook case of Hollywood chauvinism."
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Comedy  Rated: PG-13
"...an exhilarating burst of adolescence, a youth movement of wit, energy, ingenuity and sweetness."
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The Other Guys
Comedy  Rated: PG-13
"At any moment, the movie will press its own pause button, abandon the plot and take off on some deranged comic tangent."
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Get Low
Drama  Rated: PG-13
"Duvall’s acting often consists more of hissing, sighing and clicking of the tongue than actual dialogue, so playing a man of few words fits beautifully."
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Dinner for Schmucks
Comedy  Rated: PG-13
"...just funny enough, but not because of star Steve Carell."
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The Kids Are All Right
Drama  Rated: R
"No matter what its plot particulars, The Kids Are All Right ultimately takes place within the human heart."
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Salt
Thriller  Rated: PG-13
"Salt is a spy movie on the wrong side of ridiculousness..."
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Restrepo
Documentary  Rated: R
"Valuable ... but misses a golden opportunity to intersect access and art."
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Inception
Thriller  Rated: PG-13
If you're not ready to engage Inception - to be open to the possibility that a summer movie may make you work - you'll be left in the dust."
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Despicable Me
Family  Rated: PG
"No wonder I couldn't tell what Despicable Me was about when I saw its first trailer. The finished movie itself doesn't even know."
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Winter's Bone
Drama  Rated: R
"By its towering ending, the movie feels like a feminist reworking of a classical heroic myth."
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Drama  Rated: PG-13
"Forget romantic thriller; this is an abstinence thriller."
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Toy Story 3
Family  Rated: G
"...evokes that time in your life when anything was possible if you had a toy or two and an hour or so on your own."
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