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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30586786/","\"Star Trek\"","As a summer blockbuster, it delivers on pyrotechnics, fist-clenching excitement and three-dimensional characters. As a reboot of a popular franchise, it takes us back to square one in a way that feels both familiar and fresh. (As opposed to, say, the muddled “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”) And as a remake of a TV show, it captures the essence of the original while allowing the big-screen version to expand in new and thrilling directions. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30627093","\"Next Day Air\"","The plot of “Next Day Air” revolves around a drug shipment that gets delivered to the wrong apartment, but the movie itself is an object lesson in not trusting packaging — while the ads and trailers for the film would lead you to believe that it’s a comedy starring Donald Faison and Mos Def, neither of those charming comic leads appear for very long in the film.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30609741/","\"Adoration\"","Mixing together a panoply of themes that writer-director Atom Egoyan has previously pursued — including survivor’s guilt (“The Sweet Hereafter”), puzzle-box narrative (“The Adjuster”), communication technology exacerbating our inability to connect (“Family Viewing” and “Speaking Parts”), the toxic legacies of dysfunctional parenting (“Felicia’s Journey”) and violence fed by racism (“Ararat”) — “Adoration” nonetheless winds up feeling muted and muddled, a movie full of ideas and themes that never find a satisfying resolution.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30609438/","\"Rudo y Cursi\"","“Rudo y Cursi” is enormously hackneyed in concept yet surprisingly enjoyable in execution, thanks to some amusing, surreal details and the genuine camaraderie of Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30607995/","\"Julia\"","“Julia” requires an enormous amount of its star, and of its audience. Tilda Swinton gives a brash and unflinching performance as a lonely, self-destructive alcoholic who makes some questionable choices, to say the least. And in doing so, she and French writer-director Erick Zonca ask that we go along and stick by her side, every treacherous step of the way.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30606517/","\"Love 'N Dancing\"","Everything about this film cries out “made-for-TV,” from the flat, glossy lighting to the stilted dialogue to the one-dimensional characters. Would-be moments of drama quickly turn melodramatic, but are just as quickly solved, and the supposedly comic scenes are just plain corny. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30503793/","\"X-Men Origins: Wolverine\"","This is one of those movies where the script feels like an afterthought; one imagines a meeting in which it’s decided that they want eight separate shots of Jackman getting mad and showing the veins in his muscly neck, as well as a sequence with Jackman riding a cool vintage motorcycle, and then the writers went off and figured out how to accommodate those requests. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30458747/","\"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past\"","While “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” was probably never going to be a particularly good movie, it certainly could have managed to be a little less awful without that ghastly jackanapes Matthew McConaughey in the lead role. His self-satisfied and oleaginous performance scrapes away the trace amounts of charm the film has to offer. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30502556/","\"The Battle For Terra\"","While I’m not saying a science-fiction movie about colonization and genocide couldn’t be appropriate for young audiences, I will say that “Battle for Terra” is not one that I would recommend to parents. Nor do I think it’s smart or interesting enough to qualify as an animated movie that’s really intended for mature audiences. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30459305/","\"The Garden\"","“The Garden” focuses on one of the most fundamental functions of human existence: the process of working the earth to grow healthy fruits and vegetables. But it also digs deeper to reveal more complicated truths about community, identity and self-worth, as well as greed, deception and racism.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30486727/","\"The Limits of Control\"","Paint drying. Photosynthesis. Rush-hour traffic on the 405. All these activities would be more entertaining to watch — and probably speedier — than Jim Jarmusch’s “The Limits of Control.” The writer-director’s latest contains so many of the themes and aesthetic choices that have permeated his previous movies, it almost plays like a parody.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30330624/","\"The Soloist\"","Sitting through “The Soloist” is not unlike watching a dieter resisting a bowl of chocolates; this drama, based on a true story as told by a Los Angeles Times columnist, keeps skirting the gassy clichés of the uplifting triumph-of-the-underdog movie before it ultimately surrendering to soppy sentimentality. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30393177/","\"Obsessed\"","For most of its slightly overlong running time, “Obsessed” is a reasonably well-made stalker thriller, about a yuppie financial exec and the temp who becomes… well, the title role, let’s say. But when wronged wife and crazy lady finally let loose on each other in the film’s final scenes, “Obsessed” becomes a wildly campy and deliciously trashy must-see. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30355689/","\"Tyson\"","Calling it a documentary suggests many voices and sources contributing to paint an objective, balanced picture of the larger-than-life former fighter. You won’t see that here. Instead, you get wall-to-wall Tyson and nothing else — an extended monologue, a stream-of-consciousness couch confessional — which makes for riveting viewing. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30350771/","\"Fighting\"","There’s been no press coverage of any final-cut squabbles over “Fighting”; so far as we know, director Dito Montiel didn’t have his movie taken away from him and chopped up by studio drones. So why does it feel like there’s a good half-hour missing from the final product? Specifically, the 30 minutes where the characters and motivations are explained?
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30315597/","\"Earth\"","Basic, familiar occurrences are photographed and edited with such striking scope, clarity and ingenuity in the documentary “Earth,” you’ll feel as if you’re learning about them for the first time. And for the children who are the targets of much of this material, “Earth” offers colorful entertainment with, thankfully, a not-too-heavy-handed message about the perils of climate change.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30268887/","\"Crank: High Voltage\"","With its combination of fourth-wall-shattering onscreen graphics, self-conscious art direction and camera moves, ADHD editing, incongruous song choices (lowriders blast Little Anthony and the Imperials’ “Tears on My Pillow” on their car stereo, for instance), pneumatic nudity and outrageous ultra-violence, “Crank: High Voltage” is, in its own unique way, pure cinema. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30250930/","\"17 Again\"","There’s an unspoken but understood arrangement between filmmakers and the audience: Filmgoers don’t object when movie people rehash old movies and TV shows, so long as the end product injects some kind of new life or wit or spin or take on the material. And then there’s a movie like “17 Again,” which grafts together oodles of familiar characters and storylines without the benefit of anything new to say.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30233251/","\"State of Play\"","“State of Play” starts out like an “All the President’s Men” wannabe, but the story eventually begins very cleverly twisting upon itself in a way that never feels like a cheat or an insult to the audience’s intelligence. The script, an adaptation of a British TV production, is the product of three veterans of newspaper movies and political thrillers: Matthew Michael Carnahan (“Lions for Lambs”), Tony Gilroy (“Michael Clayton”) and Billy Ray (“Shattered Glass”).","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30157543/","\"Dragonball Evolution\"","It may be silly and occasionally miscast, but “Dragonball Evolution” never loses steam; the movie is both entertainingly ridiculous and ridiculously entertaining. And as counter-programming for kids who wouldn’t be caught dead at “Hannah Montana: The Movie,” this live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese anime and manga series makes a much more exciting Intro to Martial Arts movie for kids than the turgid “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.”","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30109666/","\"Observe and Report\"","The trailers make it look like a movie you’ve seen a thousand times before, most recently under the title “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” — bumbling mall cop outsmarts the police and solves a crime in order to win the love of his lady. Trust me when I say that almost none of the story plays out quite that way.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30094908/","\"Hannah Montana The Movie\"","If there’s a fan of the Disney Channel’s smash musical sitcom “Hannah Montana” in your household, then you’ve probably already made plans to see “Hannah Montana: The Movie” when it hits the big screen. And it’s a movie that will very much appeal to fans of the show, as it doesn’t skimp on the singing, the slapstick and the life lessons.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29979538/","\"Fast & Furious\"","The four original stars of “The Fast & The Furious” are back for the streamlined-title sequel “Fast & Furious,” but the producers’ effort to assemble them anew assumes that audiences are coming to these movies for the characters and not for the car stunts. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29979747/","\"Adventureland\"","While the ads for “Adventureland” promise that it’s “From the director of ‘Superbad’!” it might actually be truer — if less advantageous from a marketing point of view — to say “From the director of ‘The Daytrippers’!” While Greg Mottola is the filmmaker behind all three of these comedies, his new movie is more about understated wit than outrageous antics. (Not that there’s anything wrong with either.) ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30001748/","\"Alien Trespass\"","The midnight-movie success of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in the late 1970s and the publication of “The Golden Turkey Awards” in 1980 firmly established that, yes, those old 1950s creature features sure were hokey, what with the stiff acting and the crappy special effects and all. So why, in 2009, does the movie “Alien Trespass” pretend that this is new and fresh territory for satire?
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30001515/","\"The Escapist\"","Lacing together bleakly procedural step-by-step obstacles in the escape process with informative flashbacks that tell us how this elaborate plan came to be, “The Escapist” maintains an atmosphere of suspense and excitement, even though it’s more interested in the mechanics of the jailbreak than in the lives of the men performing it. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29839421/","\"Monsters vs. Aliens\"","It’s a rarity akin to finding that 100th monkey who can type “Hamlet” — even through “Monsters vs. Aliens” is one of the season’s most saturation-advertised films, it actually lives up to the hype. Combining creepy-crawly creatures with exhilarating action, eye-popping animation (see it in 3D if at all possible) and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of sharp, smart laughs, it’s a treat for all ages. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29916733/","\"The Haunting in Connecticut\"","Calling your movie “The Haunting in Connecticut” is pretty much asking for it; heck, call it “Casablanca in Tennessee” while you’re at it. Robert Wise’s 1963 “The Haunting” is generally considered to be the scariest haunted-house movie ever made, while this new one … won’t be. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29866835/","\"The Education of Charlie Banks\"","“The Education of Charlie Banks” marks the surprisingly sensitive directing debut of Fred Durst, the lead singer of Limp Bizkit, whose hits include the oh-so-catchy “Break Stuff.” Having directed music videos for his band and others, Durst displays a calm, sure hand here, an understated style with fluid tracking shots and long takes that allow the actors’ performances to speak for themselves.
","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29884155/","\"Hunger\"","Is “Hunger” trying to enlighten us about man’s inhumanity to man, or merely startle us? With a mix of visuals that are both harrowing and strangely beautiful — sometimes simultaneously — it’s hard to tell exactly what writer-director Steve McQueen’s aim is with his feature debut.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29778030/","\"Knowing\"","When a movie shows a subway train jumping the track and careening wildly through a crowded station, it’s unsettling. When a movie does a POV shot through the train’s windshield, so that we get a first-hand look of innocent civilians being mowed down and spreading their viscera across the glass, that crosses the line into the offensive. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29743548/","\"Duplicity\"","The idea that two retired spies could get an erotic charge from each other’s facility with lying and double-crossing harkens back to Ernst Lubitsch’s classic romance “Trouble in Paradise,” in which two con artists literally pick each other’s pockets as foreplay. If only “Duplicity” had a fraction of the friskiness and audacity of that earlier film.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29744204/","\"I Love You, Man\"","The movie itself doesn’t operate at the level of Paul Rudd’s performance — it generates steady laughter, yes, but never reaches Apatovian heights of brilliance or insight. Still, even if it pales next to “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (the previous team-up of Rudd and co-star Jason Segel), “I Love You, Man” is a perfectly entertaining lesser entry in the genre of coming-of-age comedies for and about adults. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29777502/","\"The Great Buck Howard\"","No amount of psychological manipulation from John Malkovich can make us believe the lightweight comedy “The Great Buck Howard” is nearly as poignant or profound as it aspires to be. The film is a rather facile, softhearted satire about this business we call show.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29777511/","\"Sin Nombre\"","Sin Nombre” is at once subtle and intense, familiar but refreshing, intimate even as it tells a story untold numbers have endured. There’s great inherent drama in this tale of Central Americans struggling to make their way to the United States, but writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga never amps it up.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29681190/","\"Race to Witch Mountain\"","It’s apparently Bankruptcy of Ideas Week at your local cineplex: Grown-ups get the grisly remake of “The Last House on the Left” and that stew of Sundance clichés “Sunshine Cleaning,” while the kids can see Disney’s retread of 1975’s “Escape to Witch Mountain,” now appropriately retitled “Race to Witch Mountain,” since this new version piles on one car chase after another.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29664329/","\"Last House on the Left\"","While Wes Craven’s “Last House of the Left” launched the horror director’s career by filming a rape-murder with sickening and almost documentary-like detail, it’s a movie that could stand some improvements. Between the inappropriate moments of humor, the happy-time-Shakey’s-Pizza bluegrass score and the less-than-honed acting, the original “Last House” stood as a perfect candidate for a remake. And now we have one, but the result is a movie that is more polished and professional, yet still completely odious in its own way.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29600410/","\"Sunshine Cleaning\"","Any movie that has “Sunshine” in the title and features both Alan Arkin and a run-down van is already begging for comparisons. But while “Sunshine Cleaning” doesn’t borrow too heavily from “Little Miss Sunshine,” this new film methodically follows the Sundance Film Festival formula.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29604535","\"The Edge of Love\"","Somewhere, buried deep down, there are probably some real emotions and honest moments to be had in “The Edge of Love.” They’re hard to find, though, smothered beneath self-aware, hyperstylized visuals and corny, old-fashioned melodrama.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29512171/","\"Watchmen\"","Film is something of an awkward mishmash, with certain characters rendered extraneous while others don’t have a consistent logic behind them. And woe to the actors here — Patrick Wilson and Billy Crudup being the best of the bunch — stuck with lines that were great in word balloons but fall flat when spoken aloud.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29496887/","\"Phoebe in Wonderland\"","First-time writer-director Daniel Barnz makes everything work, from the performances of his first-rate cast to the film’s lush and lived-in look to the screenplay’s sharp observations about parenting, education and emotional fragility. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29434178/","\"Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience\"","The Jonas Brothers — in all their pop-twink, Disney-cultivated, allegedly virginal, new-millennial Cowsills glory — take their onslaught upon pop culture to the big screen with “Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience.” And as the saying goes, people who like this sort of thing will like this sort of thing. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29431430/","\"Street Fighter\"","Not only is the acting consistently ludicrous — with some performances falling into the laugh-out-loud embarrassing category — and the script flimsy, but the hand-to-hand combat fails to generate any adrenaline whatsoever. To top it all, “Street Fighter” is just wretched to look at, comparable to a third-generation bootleg DVD projected onto the big screen. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29372012/","\"Crossing Over\"","With immigration remaining a constant subject in the news and the punditocracy, you can’t accuse the new drama “Crossing Over” of neglecting the zeitgeist. There’s so much you can accuse it of, however, from a disastrous script to erratic performances to a general air of sanctimony that all combine to make the movie laughable when it isn’t flat-out unwatchable.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29397636/","\"Gomorrah\"","Two cocky Italian teenagers run around their dilapidated Naples neighborhood, melodramatically riffing on “Scarface” lines to each other: “Now it has to be ours, the whole world. Miami, all of it.” They’re certainly no more over-the-top than Al Pacino. But this is the closest director and co-writer Matteo Garrone comes to any sort of traditional, Hollywoodized depiction of mob life in “Gomorrah.”
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29306373/","\"Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail\"","condemnation for making billions of dollars each year selling unhealthy food to a ravenous populace that can’t get enough. Yet somehow, Tyler Perry is praised for “knowing what his audience wants” when he pops up two or three times each year to sling his casserole of heavy-handed melodrama, come-to-Jesus sermonizing and lower-than-low physical comedy served on a bed of indifferent cinematography and acting.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29262038/","\"Fired Up!\"","It’s too bad that some marketing drone decided that “Fired Up” needed to be a PG-13 movie; the comedy about tail-chasing football players going to cheerleading camp has a wonderfully rude sense of humor, and an R rating might have allowed it be something of a high-school classic. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29247257","\"Eleven Minutes\"","Even if you’re a devoted fan of “Project Runway” — or, maybe especially if you are one — you’ll find “Eleven Minutes,” the documentary about first-season winner Jay McCarroll seriously lacking.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29164126","\"Friday the 13th\"","The new “Friday the 13th,” I’m sort of surprised to report, isn’t bad. If you’re a slasher fan, you’ll enjoy the variety of homicides on display and the jolting moments of suspense as one unsuspecting teen after another gets bumped off. Those who have never liked this kind of movie, however, won’t have their opinion changed by this one. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29143223/","\"Confessions of a Shopaholic\"","Watching “Confessions” is akin to enduring a Nickelodeon pilot that attempts to cash in on the success of “The Devil Wears Prada” and the “Sex and the City” movie; audiences for the new film are expected to forget everything they know about the media, shopping, writing, the economy and human behavior in general for the plot to work. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29125301/","\"The International\"","There’s an extraordinary shoot-out at the Guggenheim Museum coming to theaters this week; unfortunately, you have to sit through “The International” to see it. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29128323/","\"Two Lovers\"","If you’ve been searching for a non-addictive, non-chemical cure for insomnia, “Two Lovers” may be the answer to your prayers. For those of us who prefer to stay awake at the movies, however, it’s more than a little disappointing. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29126800/","\"Under the Sea 3D\"","You never get used to it. Even about halfway in, even having settled into your seat with those plastic glasses nestled on your nose, you’ll still find yourself dazzled again and again by the impossibly breathtaking beauty of the IMAX adventure “Under the Sea 3D.”
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29016869","\"He's Just Not That Into You\"","Perhaps John Waters put it best, in his comedy “Female Trouble,” when he had a character observe, “The world of heterosexuals is a sick and disgusting life.” Certainly there’s nothing in the new comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You” that would act as a particularly persuasive advertisement for male-female relationships, with its portrayal of women being either clingy or demanding while the men are cruel or befuddled.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29000976/","\"Coraline\"","Whether or not they’re adaptations of classic fables, animated films often wind up being parables that contain morals for young viewers about believing in yourself, being kind to others, not trading your voice to sea witches, whatever. But “Coraline” stands out among recent animated features because its message is aimed at parents: Pay attention to your kids, because if you don’t, someone else will.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29002325/","\"Pink Panther 2\"","A quick tip for those MGM executives so starved of new ideas that they’re plundering the vaults for properties, like “The Pink Panther,” to remake: Blake Edwards is still alive. And yes, the genius behind the original “Panther” movies may have eventually run that franchise into the ground, but I’d still rather watch the one with Roberto Benigni as Clouseau’s son than endure another go-round with Steve Martin lazily hamming it up. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29060542/","\"Push\"","After a lot of frantic exposition, we’re basically left with a movie that involves a lot of chasing and fighting. We also have heroes and villains who are matched not only by their funky powers but also by their utter dullness. I thought Hayden Christensen in last year’s “Jumper” would be as bland a mutant as the screen would ever give us, but that was before I saw Chris Evans in “Push.” ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29021595/","\"Fanboys\"","\"Fanboys” isn’t so much a cohesive movie with a plot as it is a shoddily shot litany of random geek arcania. The year is 1998, and four friends schlep from Ohio to California to break into George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch and sneak an early peek at “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.”
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28879346/","\"Taken\"","If Paul Schrader had cast Charles Bronson instead of George C. Scott in the sordid ’70s drama “Hardcore,” about a man searching for his runaway daughter in the porn world, the result might have resembled “Taken,” which stars Liam Neeson as a former CIA tough guy who smashes a lot of Parisian skulls to rescue his daughter from a sex-slavery operation. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28880662/","\"New in Town\"","“New in Town” is the sort of movie that’s so painfully dull-witted and predictable that I actually spent the first 20 minutes waiting for the film to pull the rug out from under me, as though it were lulling me into a state of complacency only so it could surprise me with some shocking revelation.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28816425/","\"Underworld: Rise of the Lycans\"","If you’ve had enough Oscar-nominated oatmeal, and you’re in the mood for a big bowl of sugary cereal with no nutritional content whatsoever, “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” is ready for you to sink your fake fangs into it. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28778888/","\"Inkheart\"","Since “Inkheart” purports to champion reading and the printed word, the best way to honor the film’s intentions would be to give kids a copy of the original book by Cornelia Funke. Actually seeing “Inkheart” would be enough to turn anyone off of not only literacy but also filmgoing. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28642708/","\"Hotel for Dogs\"","If you know any kids who were traumatized by “Marley & Me,” the cure might be a stay at “Hotel for Dogs,” a movie that balances adorable dogs of all breeds and sizes with clever set design. Oh yeah, there are some people in it, and they’re perfectly OK. But it’s not their movie.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28661902/","\"Paul Blart: Mall Cop\"","The biggest crime of all in “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” is not the bank heist that goes down at a New Jersey mall on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year. Rather, it’s the egregious way in which Kevin James’ innate likability goes to waste.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28661902/","\"Notorious\"","“Notorious,” the life story of legendary rapper Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, may have one of the most stacked decks of any recent cinematic biography; two of the main figures in Wallace’s life — his mother, Voletta Wallace, and his producer, Sean Combs — aren’t just characters in the movie. They’re also producers.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28530351/","\"Bride Wars\"","As if to assuage the anxieties of the millions of same-sex couples deprived of the right to wed in this nation, here comes “Bride Wars” to make the entire institution of marriage look almost as awful as last year’s dreadful “27 Dresses” did. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28583440/","\"Not Easily Broken\"","Somehow bypassing a Promise Keepers’ weekend marriage encounter and going directly into mainstream theaters, “Not Easily Broken” takes a moralistic view of relationship problems by suggesting that everything will be fixed if the wife spends less time in the office and more time having children. This may well be the first film ever made about the male biological clock. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28564295/","\"The Unborn\"","The Kabbalah. Hot college students. An abandoned mental institution. Gary Oldman. Jogging. Twins. Nazi scientists. A suicidal mother. A lost blue mitten. What do these things have in common? They’re all pieces in the convoluted mythology of “The Unborn.”
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28471585/","\"Good\"","Jean-Luc Godard once said that the best way to review a movie is to make another movie; sometimes, all it takes is seeing a second movie about a certain subject matter to highlight everything that the first movie did wrong. Such is the case with “Good,” which deals with an intellectual who gets swept up into the Nazi party without ever thinking about the larger issues at stake; it’s a powerful film on its own merits, but it also points out how tame and impotent “The Reader” is in examining similar issues. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28437482/","\"Defiance\"","“Defiance” director Edward Zwick certainly isn’t afraid of archetypes: We know who the villain’s going to be (it’s the guy with the bad teeth), we know who’s going to marry the hero (it’s the one woman who looks stunning with apparently no makeup on) and we know who the hero is (it’s Daniel Craig as the movie’s one blond, blue-eyed Russian Jew). ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28367309/","\"Revolutionary Road\"","I genuinely regret never having read Richard Yates’ novel “Revolutionary Road,” not only because its admirers tell me it’s a compelling look at mid-century ennui but also because any future attempts to read it will be tainted by the dreary film adaptation currently being inflicted upon audiences. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28354794/","\"Valkyrie\"","Mark Twain might have subtitled “Valkyrie,” “The Not-So-Private History of a Campaign That Failed.” Director Bryan Singer is a master of forward motion in his storytelling, but he never distracts us enough from the knowledge that doom is around the corner for our heroes, a cadre of Nazis who sought to kill Hitler and negotiate with the Allied forces in the waning days of World War II. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28298150/","\"The Spirit\"","The previews and trailers indicated this movie would be “Sin City” 1.5 in terms of art direction. I knew enough about the comic books to know that this style might conflict a bit with the source material. Despite this conflict, or perhaps because of it, somewhere inside “The Spirit” is a great film. Its potential can be seen in bits and pieces all over the screen.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28353939/","\"Bedtime Stories\"","Even though “Bedtime Stories” represents a first for Sandler — a comedy that’s appropriate for all ages — it still feels like a giant leap backward for him. As Skeeter Bronson, the handyman at a boutique Los Angeles hotel, Sandler is doing that same silly, growly voice he uses in his “Hanukkah Song.” ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28356484/","\"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button\"","Screenwriter Eric Roth is no doubt hoping that you won’t notice how many of his ideas from “Forrest Gump” have made it into his adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novella “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” And even fans of that earlier film may find themselves overburdened; “Gump” director Robert Zemeckis isn’t exactly known for his light touch, but next to “Button” man David Fincher, he’s practically Ernst Lubitsch. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28368111/","\"Last Chance Harvey\"","If there’s such a thing as the Laptop Lotto for screenwriters, “Last Chance Harvey” writer-director Joel Hopkins hit the Superball. Hopkins, best known for his award-winning 1998 short film “Jorge,” somehow scored Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson for a screenplay that, by rights, should have snagged Daniel Hugh Kelly and Catherine Oxenberg before winding up on one of the channels you’d ignore on a trans-Atlantic airline. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28371982/","\"Waltz With Bashir\"","Unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, “Waltz With Bashir” will change your ideas about the possibility of film. It’s an animated documentary, which probably sounds like a contradiction in terms, but even describing it that way threatens to place it in the kinds of tidy, well-defined boxes that “Waltz With Bashir” consistently defies.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28368788/","\"Marley and Me\"","A word of warning to parents out there who have been seduced by the adorable-puppy-in-Christmas-bow advertising of “Marley & Me” and are considering taking their youngsters to see it: Don’t. The dog — and this may technically count as a spoiler, even though the movie is based on a best-selling book — dies. And “Marley & Me” milks audience grief (and will traumatize children) more than “Bambi” and “Old Yeller” combined.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28269718/","\"Yes Man\"","“And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself” isn’t just a line from “A Visit from St. Nicholas” — it’s how I felt about Jim Carrey’s performance in the new comedy “Yes Man.” Having been annoyed by his antics in many of his recent outings — take “Fun with Dick and Jane,” please — the world-class mugger dials it down and delights in this breezy (if somewhat formulaic) flick. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28256883","\"Seven Pounds\"","“Seven Pounds” slogs about, impressed with its own supposed depth, as we watch Will Smith play a man attempting to pay for his past sins. Director Gabriele Muccino (“The Pursuit of Happyness”) seems to think he’s in Ingmar Bergman territory, but he’s actually made the longest, most dour episode of “My Name is Earl” imaginable. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28257275/","\"The Wrestler\"","It’s hard not to look for traces of the off-screen Rourke, ’80s movie legend gone off the rails, in his portrayal of Randy “The Ram” Robinson, past-his-prime ’80s wrestling legend, in “The Wrestler,” and perhaps director Darren Aronofsky would rather we didn’t. But Rourke’s work in the film transcends mere stunt-casting; his performance is a howl of pain that seems to come from a very real place, and it’s a potent reminder — as was his compelling role in “Sin City” a few years ago — that even if Rourke has made a mess of his career, his talent remains intact. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28285852/","\"The Tale of Despereaux\"","Which came first, the rat or the mouse? Doesn’t really matter. Even though Kate DiCamillo’s book “The Tale of Despereaux” came out in 2003 — and won a Newbery Medal for outstanding children’s literature — the animated film version still feels like a rip-off of “Ratatouille,” which was only released last year.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28166691/","\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\"","If you’re looking for chuckles this holiday season, bypass the miserably unfunny “Four Christmases” and go where the real comedy is — “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” a clumsy, moronic remake of Robert Wise’s brilliant 1951 classic about an alien invader trying to save the human race from its own self-destructive impulses. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28148891/","\"The Reader\"","I’ve generally been a defender of the films of Stephen Daldry, but seeing “The Reader” made me understand why some people hated his previous movie, “The Hours.” That film, they said, was fussy and airless, tamping down truth and humanity in favor of the brand of dry “culture” that lures certain segments of the moviegoing public with the promise of a tastefully prim Sunday matinee. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28166470/","\"Gran Torino\"","You’ll pretty much figure out exactly where “Gran Torino” is taking you within the first 30 minutes, but it’s a testament to the vehicle that you’ll mostly enjoy the ride anyway. Director-star Clint Eastwood brings his advancing age front and center here — he could have called the movie “Grandpa Torino” — with a performance that’s almost shamelessly crowd-pleasing at times. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28160651/","\"Nothing Like the Holidays\"","Like the plantains and empanadillas that adorn the film’s Christmas dinner table, “Nothing Like the Holidays” is comfort food. Though its title suggests uniqueness, “Nothing Like the Holidays” is exactly like most holiday films, with the notable exception of an almost entirely Latin cast.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28117453/","\"Doubt\"","I never saw John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt” performed onstage, but Shanley’s film version certainly doesn’t shy away from theatricality. Light bulbs explode, telephones ring insistently during tense arguments, literal and metaphorical winds whip up — heck, an actual cat chases an actual mouse, just to make sure the audience knows what’s going on. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28117437/","\"Che\"","Steven Soderbergh’s “Che” is by no means a perfect film, but in a season laden with dopey historical movies like “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk” and “The Reader,” it’s exhilarating to watch a film that doesn’t hit all the usual biopic script beats. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28022273/","\"Frost/Nixon\"","You know how a comedian can completely ruin his own joke by stopping to explain the punch line? The filmmakers behind “Frost/Nixon” do the same thing, undercutting some of the film’s most powerful moments by tossing in scenes where the characters tell the audience what it has already seen.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28041926/","\"Cadillac Records\"","While it tells the story of an exciting period in American pop culture, “Cadillac Records” winds up being so trite, tidy and two-dimensional that you would swear you were watching a late-night infomercial for the great music of Chess Records. All that’s missing is a toll-free number and a paid walk-on by Frankie Avalon.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28034066/","\"Nobel Son\"","Just in time for year-end “worst movie” lists comes “Nobel Son,” a movie far too confident in its own cleverness and charm, two elements it lacks in abundance. “Nobel Son” is so utterly idiotic, that I can’t even bring myself to explain the plot. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27908245/","\"Four Christmases\"","Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon star in this holiday comedy that starts out casting a sardonic eye on marriage and family but winds up being a treacly advertisement for those very things.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27908230/","\"Milk\"","“Milk” brings the politician’s story to life, but it almost mechanically ticks off all the moments you’d expect to see in a biopic. Watching director Gus Van Sant tamp down everything that makes him interesting as a filmmaker to make a big mainstream movie is rather disheartening.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27908240/","\"Australia\"","Nobody does “outsized” like Baz Luhrmann, who most recently juiced up both the musical and the tragic romance to heart-exploding intensity with “Moulin Rouge!” Now he’s back to give the business to romantic epics with “Australia,” a sprawling ode to his home country that throws kangaroos, didgeridoos, the outback, a cattle drive, Japanese air raids and Nicole Kidman into a slightly overboiled stew that’s never less than compelling.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27806302/","\"Twilight\"","“Twilight” is a vampire movie, but it’s not a horror movie. It’s never an easy task to bring a hit book to the screen, but by filling the screen with stares, stammers and silences, director Catherine Hardwicke and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg tread into the territory of unintentional hilarity.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27789334/","\"Bolt\"","One could forgive a movie aimed at children for shamelessly cribbing plot points from “The Last Action Hero” and “The Truman Show” — which “Bolt” totally does — since its target audience is ostensibly not familiar with movies that came out way back in the ’90s. But when the canine protagonist of “Bolt” borrows a character arc from Buzz Lightyear, even youngsters will smell a rip-off. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27667220/","\"Quantum of Solace\"","As played by Daniel Craig in “Casino Royale” and now “Quantum of Solace,” there’s a case to be made for 007 as masochist. Craig’s Bond lets the audience feel the impact of every blow to the head, every bullet to the shoulder, every face-first landing into the side of a building.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27669648/","\"Slumdog Millionaire\"","“Slumdog Millionaire” is a movie so compelling and, ultimately, upbeat, that it left me grinning wider than anything I’ve seen in ages.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27669648/","\"A Christmas Tale\"","If the title “A Christmas Tale” summons up visions of family warmth and tenderness, get ready for anything but that in this fascinating, gut-punching story that explores the kind of damage and emotional wounds that only blood relatives can inflict upon each other. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27543560/","\"Role Models\"","With “Role Models,” Paul Rudd may suddenly find himself getting the attention he has largely avoided, because his work here is at a game-changing level for a young actor. The fact that he also shares a writing credit should provide a boost as well.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27543759/","\"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa\"","Seriously, “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” may not be the worst of the animated features that have been forced down our collective gullet since the genre’s rebirth with “The Little Mermaid” almost 20 years ago, but it feels like a collection of tropes and gags so familiar that even 4-year-olds could map out where they’ve seen all this before.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27544204/","\"Soul Men\"","The plot outline for “Soul Men” could fit comfortably on a single note card, with room left over for a grocery list and a few phone numbers. A road-trip rip-off of “The Sunshine Boys” infused with soul music and vulgar, misogynist humor, this dreadful film marks a sad end to the distinguished careers of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27557879/","\"Repo! The Genetic Opera\"","“Repo! The Genetic Opera” is easily one of the worst movies of the year, if not all time. This goth garbage isn’t clever enough to be “Sweeney Todd” and it isn’t campy enough to be “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” — it’s not even worthwhile in a culty, midnight-movie way. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27562325/","\"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas\"","The family drama “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” depicts the Holocaust through the simplistic eyes of a child: all the brutality, all the absurdity, crystallized by the innocence of an 8-year-old boy. Writer-director Mark Herman has created a needlessly overpowering film.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27427479/","\"Zach and Miri Make a Porno\"","It’s a lovely, naughty little movie that allows writer-director Kevin Smith to indulge his twin penchants for scatological sex talk and heartfelt slacker romance. Having old friends realize they love each other during the making of a pornographic video might not be the usual romantic comedy convention, but no one could accuse the maker of “Chasing Amy and “Dogma” of pursuing the tried-and-true.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27477273/","\"The Haunting of Molly Hartley\"","Points to “The Haunting of Molly Hartley” for defying conventions in its provocative final twist, but the movie really makes you work for it — to get to the finish line, audiences will be forced to endure trite dialogue, familiar situations and uninspired acting. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27440432/","\"Splinter\"","The feature debut from British writer-director Toby Wilkins is a truly inspired mix of stripped-down, 1970s-style scares and vivid special effects. It has so many gnarly, oh-my-God-did-that-just-happen? moments, your jaw will hurt from hitting the floor so often.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27299307/","\"High School Musical 3: Senior Year\"","Would that “HSM 3” contained a single new idea. This latest and last of the series is a stitched-together Frankenstein monster of an entertainment, featuring major components that were already trotted out the first two times. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27299307/","\"Changeling\"","Working from a fascinating true story, director Clint Eastwood starts out with an interesting thriller-melodrama that drags its story out a full half-hour or so past its emotional climax. Rather than run one of those crawls that explains the rest of the story, Eastwood tells you every last detail, thus minimizing whatever power the movie ever had.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27299333/","\"Synecdoche, New York\"","If a seasoned filmmaker created a work as funny, moving, perplexing, thought-provoking, poignant and powerful as “Synecdoche, New York,” that alone would be reason for exultation. The fact that this little gem — both intimate and epic, cerebral and emotional — marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman makes the achievement all the more worthy of celebration. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27305767/","\"Pride and Glory\"","Everything about the dirty cop thriller “Pride and Glory” is formulaic and forgettable, even down to its generic title. Edward Norton and Colin Farrell chew up the scenery and spit it back out again as brothers-in-law and brothers in blue. When a cop killer takes down four of their comrades, years of schemes and resentments come bubbling to the surface.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27199931/","\"W.\"","Even though Stone can’t resist the occasional lapse into cartoonishness, “W.” winds up being a thought-provoking examination of a crucial turning point in American history. What may wind up being most shocking to the conservatives who have been pillorying Stone for months is how sympathetic the film is to its leading character","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27226626/","\"Max Payne\"","I’ve always wondered why, when I see a great Mark Wahlberg performance in a film like “I Heart Huckabee’s” or “The Departed,” I have to remind myself all over again that the artist formerly known as Marky Mark can be a very fine screen actor. But then I see “Max Payne,” and it reminds me; I forget how good he can be because of his frequent participation in brainless bullet-fests like this new big-screen adaptation of the popular videogame.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27243945/","\"What Just Happened?\"","Hollywood producers are — speaking generally, of course — rich, pampered, selfish, spoiled and powerful. That doesn’t mean that a talented filmmaker couldn’t make a smart, compassionate movie that would make an audience feel some sympathy for one of these guys. “What Just Happened?” is not that movie. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27184603/","\"The Secret Lives of Bees\"","Bringing Sue Monk Kidd’s novel to the big screen, Prince-Bythewood gets a lot of things right, but every time a mouth-breathing redneck pops up to torment one of the movie’s African-American characters, “Bees” loses a dimension. Still, the film has lots to offer.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27087625/","\"Body of Lies\"","Add “Body of Lies” to the heap of snoozeburger films about the War on Terror. If you thought that director Ridley Scott, working with actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe and screenwriter William Monahan (“The Departed”), was going to break the Hollywood Goes to Iraq curse with his latest, get ready for disappointment — the Hollywood Surge still isn’t working.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27104085/","\"City of Ember\"","Would that this new movie had a tenth of the charm or the smarts of the \"Wall-E.\" All “City of Ember” offers are uninteresting characters in a grimy and bleak world — the production design all but screams “It’s a set!” — and instead of suspense or even empathy, there’s just noise and ugliness.
","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27073175/","\"RocknRolla\"","To attempt to recap the plot of Guy Ritchie’s new film “RocknRolla” would probably require flashcards, a dry-erase board and PowerPoint; suffice it to say that while the movie never tires of adding more characters and plot twists to its runnething-over-cup, Ritchie brings enough flash and silliness to the proceedings to make it a fun, if exhausting, ride.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27074674/","\"Happy-Go-Lucky\"","It’s the predictability of most movies that makes the work of Mike Leigh so refreshing. If you’ve ever seen one, you know that his films present unforgettable characters and fascinatingly intimate stories, but do so within structures that feel organic and lifelike, slowly and subtly working their way toward the audience understanding just who these people are and what guides their behavior.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26960958/","\"Blindness\"","In his previous overrated hit films, “City of God” and “The Constant Gardener,” Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles has looked at humanity as wriggling specimens pinned to a board. His movies attach people-puppets to big, bold statements, but the films flounder when those people are supposed to be, you know, multi-dimensional human beings.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26997105/","\"How to Lose Friends and Alienate People\"","After “The Devil Wears Prada” detailed an up-and-comer at Vogue magazine, “How to Lose Friends & Alienate People” attempts to do the same with Vanity Fair. Cross your fingers that Hollywood eventually gets to Field & Stream.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26977740/","\"Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist\"","Despite an appealing cast and a tone of mildly sardonic sweetness, the movie is missing that X factor that makes you understand why the characters fall for each other and gets you to root for them being together. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26961209/","\"Rachel Getting Married\"","Where “Rachel Getting Married” needs the fast-forward button is, oddly enough, when Rachel finally gets married. Up until that point, the film is a compelling mix of painful comedy and revelatory tragedy, but when we get to the wedding reception, director Jonathan Demme gets completely distracted by the musicians he’s cast to perform in the film. ","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26962944/","\"Flash of Genius\"","Director Mark Abraham spells out for the audience exactly where he’s going with “Flash of Genius,” a bland David-and-Goliath tale of corporate greed and deception that’s based on true events.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26947018/","\"Religulous\"","Bill Maher is preaching to the choir with “Religulous,” a documentary that dissects organized religion, but he’s doing it in his laceratingly funny, typically sardonic way.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26857005/","\"Miracle at St. Anna\"","Director Spike Lee wins a lot of battles in his new film, the World War II–set “Miracle at St. Anna,” but he ultimately loses the war. A powerful cast delivers, and many individual sequences stand out, so it’s too bad that the sum total of the project feels so muddled and excessive.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26871886/","\"Nights in Rodanthe\"","Many critics will no doubt tar this film with the dreaded “Lifetime movie” epithet, but I’d venture a bit further — “Nights in Rodanthe” is the world’s longest General Foods International Coffee commercial.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26859636/","\"The Lucky Ones\"","Soldiers might be clamoring to re-enlist if they all saw as much action in their homecoming as the threesome in “The Lucky Ones.” This is the latest casualty in Hollywood’s unsatisfying parade of war-on-terror dramas, a movie built on improbabilities.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26875177/","\"Choke\"","The novel from “Fight Club” writer Chuck Palahniuk, about a sex addict who pretends he’s choking in restaurants to make money to pay for his demented mom’s hospital care, wasn’t exactly great literature. But the characters felt vaguely real beneath the weirdness — or perhaps because of it — and the story had glimmers of poignancy at which writer-director Clark Gregg’s film hints only rarely.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26741780/","\"Lakeview Terrace\"","If only “Lakeview Terrace” could have been as honest about its intentions. This schlocky suspense flick about African-American L.A. cop Sam Jackson blowing a gasket when a mixed-race couple (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) move in next door is no deeper than “Unlawful Entry,” but oh, how it wants you to think it has some resonant message about race in the post-riot, new-millennial Los Angeles.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26795629/","\"My Best Friend's Girl\"","Want to spend a seemingly endless 100 minutes watching a dullard trying to decide between a douchebag and a eunuch? Then run, don’t walk, to “My Best Friend’s Girl,” a supremely irritating movie about idiots and their dull quest for unconvincing love.
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all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26795477/","\"Appaloosa\"","If the two paradigms for American Westerns are going to be haunting and beautifully evocative recollections of an era long past (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”) or unambitious but entertaining shoot-em-ups (“3:10 to Yuma”), put Ed Harris’ “Appaloosa” firmly in the latter category, with a few wispy suggestions of artifice lurking in the background.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
all_moviereviews2[i++] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26776208/","\"Ghost Town\"","You can only wander down this comic road for so long; once you’ve run through a few sight gags, you have to go somewhere else with this old-fashioned, high-concept premise. Unfortunately, director and co-writer David Koepp heads toward sticky sentimentality — and that’s not nearly so good a fit for star Ricky Gervais. The way in which the ghosts find closure, and the visual effect that accompanies that moment, is too feel-good and looks especially cheesy.","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
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