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Even Anglophiles might get lost in this convoluted historical drama that thinks it’s clever, but is mainly just overheated.

A Shrek spinoff, Puss in Boots may be just the jumpstart animated family films needed ahead of the holiday-movie season.

While The Rum Diary hints at themes of political and corporate corruption, it never invites deeper analysis of its story.

For all the clichéd dialogue about making time count, the filmmakers don’t make the most of their own opportunities In Time.

Why anyone would adapt Alexandre Dumas’s famed novel yet again—with no new angle to boot—is a real head-scratcher.

Based on the true story of Immaculata College’s 1971-72 team, The Mighty Macs is the original Cinderella story in women’s basketball.

The remake of Footloose is still a born crowd-pleaser nearly 30 years later, especially when everybody’s dancing.

Despite starring comedians Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson, The Big Year is shockingly devoid of big laughs.

Not to be confused with those Transformers robots in disguise, Real Steel has an actual human pulse.

With a script that plays like a greatest hits of political parables, The Ides of March is done well. But we’ve seen this before.

Together a little band of pilgrims walk, drink, and fight their way along the road. But do they find what they’re looking for?

A script celebrating family is to be applauded. But the delivery of this message in Courageous is a bit heavy-handed.

Machine Gun Preacher hits its target, but as a model of bold faith, it raises more questions than it answers.

Based on screenwriter Will Reiser’s own battle with cancer, 50/50 is a funny, heartbreaking look at what happens next.

Dolphin Tale’s heart is in the right place. And that helps overcome the cynicism a formulaic plot too frequently feeds.