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Steve Carell
Peter Segal—
Get Smart
—02/23/08
I thought it would be interesting to see how he becomes Max. How they met. I know there was one story of how they met, obviously, in the pilot, in 1965, but I thought, 'Okay, what if we take a little license there and come up with our own...'
Steve Carell—
Get Smart
—02/23/08
Probably the riskiest thing I did was being pulled behind a moving SUV down train tracks. Um, that was a little scary.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
Sweet and raunchy in equal measure, which I suppose makes it the aged-to-perfection version of
American Pie
.
Over the Hedge (2006)
The voice work and animation are both a cut above the average, and the film's energy is brisk.
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Pulls off the trick of the feel-good movie in a way movies haven't managed in a long time.
Evan Almighty (2007)
Will presumably charm wee ones, and...go over like gangbusters with the holy rollers, but others may notice this comedy of faith skimps on the comedy.
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who (2008)
Dan in Real Life (2007)
Get Smart (2008)
For the summer months, it'll do nicely, and we can all thank our lucky stars that we get Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart.
The Office: Season Four (2008)
NBC's
The Office
has become a TV comedy classic in its own right and holds the crown of the funniest series on American TV today.
The Office: Season Five (2009)
The Office
has the funniest ensemble of any sitcom on the air...
Date Night (2010)
Much as I would prefer to see the subtler Carell of
Dan in Real Life
comically negotiate a struggling marriage to Fey, we’re in a land of gunfire and super-computers.
Despicable Me (2010)
Weds a Charles Addams drollness to Looney Tunes one-upmanship.
Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
A fairly typical Hollywood bromantic comedy in that one suspects that the improvisatory chops of its likeable star duo made them real-time script doctors.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
For the apocalyptic circumstances to be more than cheap window dressing, Scafaria owes us more thought and insight and satiric zest than her film offers up.
Hope Springs (2012)
There’s a weirdly riveting intensity—and a palpable sense of privilege—to the way the movie takes us into squirmy private moments...
Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Culminates in a double-music video finish designed to see audiences out in a pop-narcotic laughing-gas daze. As a tactic, it’s a poor substitute for a satisfying story.
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
Had me at 'Ride Like the Wind.' But by 'Shilo,' I was not so sure.
Foxcatcher (2014)
Quietly but firmly interprets the disturbing story of millionaire John du Pont through bifocal lenses of American dreaming and the sexual fantasies made accessible by wealth.
Freeheld (2015)
No movie can fully suppress the talents of Moore, Page, and Shannon, but in Ron Nyswaner’s script, every theme gets put in a character’s mouth, and every plot point gets telegraphed, mailed, emailed, and texted ahead of its arrival.
The Big Short (2015)
Elucidate[s] the fiscal rigamarole leading up to the bursting of the housing and credit bubble circa 2008, while also whipping up a palatable froth of cynicism and absurdity.
Vice (2018)
As strikingly original in form as Oliver Stone’s
JFK
...infotaining Hollywood history that’s equal parts funny and horrifying in its high-stakes political gamesmanship...
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Makes a good case for itself as the addiction movie America needs right now...[offers] a primal 'you are not alone' catharsis for sufferers under the powerful grip of addiction or with a front-row seat to it.
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