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Amy Adams
Serving Sara (2002)
The Wedding Date (2005)
It's a blessing that
The Wedding Date
doesn't try too hard, but it's a curse that it doesn't try hard enough.
Junebug (2005)
The balancing act of character contradictions ultimately becomes more about itself than true human behavior.
Sunshine (2007)
There is nothing new under the sun, but at least the talented Boyle still brings the heat.
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
A Bizarro-world Frank Capra picture...Though the story deserves more weight...still a pleasing, unusually smart, consistently witty mass entertainment.
Enchanted (2007)
Doubt (2008)
Good to the last drop: the guilt-drenched final line is a prism revealing new facets of character and theme to ponder on the way out of the theater.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Musters only a few lackluster laughs...[but] has one trump card: it’s a kid-friendly, “PG” film that celebrates museums.
Julie & Julia (2009)
Together the film's parallel stories do make slightly more than the sum of their ingredients, cooking up undemanding summer fun.
Sunshine Cleaning (2009)
The sort of movie you root for, hoping it’ll break through to be something special. It never quite does, but it still has the not-insignificant value of two fine actresses cast as sisters.
The Fighter (2010)
Doggedly obvious melodrama...But what makes the clichés palatable is a communal commitment to getting the story right.
The Muppets (2011)
Muppet News Flash! Your friends in felt are back on the big screen, ready and waiting to charm a new generation of…moppets.
The Master (2012)
The Master
begs for a reorientation of the viewer, perhaps requiring more than one viewing...there's nothing easy or conventional about this account of a doomed search for external meaning, doubling as a meditative tone poem on human frailty.
On the Road (2012)
This pretty period-pictorial companion piece to the novel fatally misses out on the brain-firing raw buzz that Kerouac felt and passed on to his readers...
Man of Steel (2013)
Man of Steel (2013)
On balance, this new cinematic take on a 75-year-old icon constitutes a worthy Superman movie and a modest improvement for a franchise that had creatively stalled.
American Hustle (2013)
There's a self-aware feel to the period pageantry, the alternatingly seductive and kinetic cinematography, and the actor's showcase this ramshackle contraption has been held together with spit and bailing wire to be.
Her (2013)
Captures the zeitgeist of a tech-centric world that may be too 'smart' for its own good...It's about the life of the mind and emotional dysfunction as much as it is a quirky romance, and every scene opens up new questions.
Big Eyes (2014)
Burton pokes fun at Keane's art, but he kids because he loves, and
Big Eyes
productively asks the question of whether the paintings are art or kitsch (probable answer: both).
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
[SPOILER-FREE REVIEW:] This is not a drill, comic-book geeks.
Arrival (2016)
A science-fiction masterpiece that’s largely about our perceptions of time and our struggles to communicate...unexpectedly romantic and profound in its deeper concerns, by exploring the happy-sad nature of existence itself, of being born to die.
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
A moody and deeply unsettling look at a pair of failed relationships, regrets and recriminations, and measures of emotional violence—oh, shall we call it 'lashing out'?—symbolized in physical violence.
Justice League (2017)
These comic-book cinematic universes...train audiences to see the forest for the trees...Enjoy the trees. For the forest is a tad gnarly.
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...
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