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Review: Love Crime

A deconstruction of the mystery genre
Love Crime deconstructs the genre by showing how to put together a mystery in order to deceive and manipulate those who would try to take it apart.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 04, 2011

Review: The Ides of March

George Clooney's new directorial effort
Though more contemporary than Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005), George Clooney's new directorial effort seems less topical.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 04, 2011

Review: Margaret

Unexpected situations
Kenneth Lonergan offers no resolutions in this complex and moving parable, unless it's the observation that the only resolutions in life are in art.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 04, 2011

Review: What's Your Number

Faris fails to carry comedy to Bridesmaids heights
I was hoping that Mark Mylod's comedy might, like Bridesmaids , show that women could hold their own when it comes to subversive humor.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 05, 2011

Review: 3

Three's company
Unmarried and childless, Hanna and Simon have reached the point in their 20-year relationship where his testicular cancer operation coincides with her initiating an affair.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 05, 2011

Jackie Chan, deprived of his comic and physical skills, falls flat
Few in the West know about it, and are likely to be more confused by this bombastic, incoherent, though occasionally eloquent period.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 05, 2011

Review: Littlerock

Altogether original
Two young Japanese tourists, siblings Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka), get stranded when their car breaks down in the California backwater of the title.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 05, 2011

Review: 50/50

An edgy concept, and a fine cast
In 50/50 , Jonathan Levine, whose The Wackness (2008) showed a talent for sardonic comedy, makes a halfhearted attempt to raise Will Reiser's script (partly autobiographical) above clever stereotype.