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Comedy  Rated: PG-13
"...just funny enough, but not because of star Steve Carell."
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The Kids Are All Right
Drama  Rated: R
"No matter what its plot particulars, The Kids Are All Right ultimately takes place within the human heart."
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Salt
Thriller  Rated: PG-13
"Salt is a spy movie on the wrong side of ridiculousness..."
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Restrepo
Documentary  Rated: R
"Valuable ... but misses a golden opportunity to intersect access and art."
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Inception
Thriller  Rated: PG-13
"If you're not ready to engage Inception - to be open to the possibility that a summer movie may make you work - you'll be left in the dust."
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Predators
Action/Adventure  Rated: R
"Here’s to director Nimrod Antal, who since coming to Hollywood has managed to overcome at least two unpromising movie assignments..."
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Despicable Me
Family  Rated: PG
"No wonder I couldn't tell what Despicable Me was about when I saw its first trailer. The finished movie itself doesn't even know."
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Winter's Bone
Drama  Rated: R
"By its towering ending, the movie feels like a feminist reworking of a classical heroic myth."
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Drama  Rated: PG-13
"Forget romantic thriller; this is an abstinence thriller."
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Knight and Day
Action/Adventure  Rated: PG-13
"Knight and Day is something no other summer movie has managed to be: fresh."
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Toy Story 3
Family  Rated: G
"...evokes that time in your life when anything was possible if you had a toy or two and an hour or so on your own."
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The A-Team
Action/Adventure  Rated: PG-13
"Creative exhaustion led to the development of an A-Team movie; the film itself is simply exhausting."
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The Karate Kid
Family  Rated: PG
"...it's odd that the movie fails to recognize our understanding of bullying has significantly changed since 1984."
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Get Him to the Greek
Comedy  Rated: R
"There are a lot of illegal drugs in Get Him to the Greek, and the movie itself sort of works like one."
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Sex and the City 2
Comedy  Rated: R
"...a moving, surprisingly traditional 'women's picture' in ridiculous, overpriced clothing."
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Shrek Forever After
Family  Rated: PG
"...as fun and witty as its predecessors, but the movie has a completely different reason for being."
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Iron Man 2
Action/Adventure  Rated: PG-13
"...may mark the beginning of Mickey Rourke's re-descent (cooing to a cockatoo in Russian will do that)."
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Please Give
Drama  Rated: R
"Holofcener explores the contemporary female experience with a camera that is at once empathetic and merciless."
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