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Step Up (2006)

Drama Rated PG-13

You could choreograph the entire plot outline of Step Up after hearing only a brief description of the movie’s premise, but the dancing is another matter entirely. This follows the cliched, Romeo-and-Juliet romance between a criminally inclined Baltimore street dancer (Channing Tatum) and a high-strung ballet student (Jenna Dewan), but rather than concentrating on the

Searchers, The (1956)

Drama Rated NR

The Searchers has such disturbing implications concerning racism and sexual panic beneath its familiar Western elements that it was years before anyone felt comfortable enough to discuss what the movie was actually about. The part of Ethan Edwards is one of John Wayne’s most conflicted roles, that of a brave man whose most valiant gestures

Brick (2006)

Thriller Rated R

Brick employs a simply brilliant movie high concept: It’s a classic film-noir detective story set in a contemporary high school. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays an intelligent teen loner who has been recently dumped by his social-climbing girlfriend. He’s still infatuated, of course, so when she disappears he sets out to find her by winding his way

Seven Samurai (1954)

Action/Adventure Rated NR

“Possibly the least daunting, 207-minute foreign-language film ever made…”

Annapolis (2006)

Drama Rated PG-13

This means to be James Franco’s An Officer and a Gentleman and Top Gun all rolled into one, but I don’t remember Tom Cruise grimacing much in Top Gun, which is about all Franco manages. As a young welder who has grown up across the water from the U.S. Naval Academy and has been given

From Hell (2001)

Thriller Rated R

This gory take on the Jack the Ripper legend, starring Johnny Depp as an opium-addicted detective, wants to be a thinking person’s slasher flick, even quoting the killer as saying, “I gave birth to the 20th century.” That’s an intriguing boast, but sibling directors Albert and Allen Hughes, adapting a graphic novel by Alan Moore,

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

Family Rated PG

Mercenary, which is not the quality you want in an animated kids’ flick. This sequel’s prehistoric characters might as well be stretching their paws out for money, because the picture gives them little else to do. Everyone’s back – including Scrat – but they’ve been ordered to work by the studio accounting department, not born

Descent, The (2006)

Horror Rated R

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Formula 51 (2001)

Action/Adventure Rated R

Shockingly amoral, Formula 51 follows a “master chemist” (Samuel L. Jackson) who’s trying to sell a new drug to the highest bidder. If you think that makes for a questionable hero, wait until you witness the callous and casual cruelty with which endless characters are killed off. A bullet to the face is considered a

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

Comedy Rated PG-13

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Recent Reviews

Silkwood (1983)

Drama Rated R

“Streep is as loose as she’s ever been…”

Mother Mary (2026)

Drama Rated R

“A collage of religio-goth gestures…”

The Great Dictator (1940)

Comedy Rated G

“Charlie Chaplin was not messing around.”


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