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New Year’s Eve

360 (review)

Fri, Aug 10, 2012
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A subtle and striking globehopping ensemble drama of human interactions shaped by sex and love, honesty and deception, allure and retreat.

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting (review)

Tue, May 29, 2012
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It’s intended to be delightful, but it feels as long as a pregnancy itself, this roundrobin of forcefully interconnected tales of incipient parenthood.

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AWFJ announces 2011 awards

Wed, Jan 11, 2012
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So happy that The Artist is Best Film for us…

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question of the day: What was the most sexist movie or movie moment in 2011?

Fri, Jan 06, 2012
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Yesterday’s QOTD was about a feminist net positive: the most kickass female action character of 2011. Today, we go the other way…

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must reads: “‘New Year’s Eve’: 10 Things That Could Never Happen as They Happened”

Wed, Dec 14, 2011
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Lest today’s QOTD be misinterpreted as any sort of defense of New Year’s Eve, I invite you to join me in guffawing along with Mandi Bierly at PopWatch at the movie’s ridiculous mala-Big Apple-isms…

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question of the day: What is the magic equation to gets people to go to the movies… or to stay away?

Tue, Dec 13, 2011
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Or, why we probably shouldn’t be too excited that New Year’s Eve flopped…

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A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas (review)

Fri, Dec 09, 2011
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Want to make manchildren laugh? Blow some weed smoke out at them in 3D. Call something “Avatarded” as a compliment. Get a baby high. Har har.

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New Year’s Eve (review)

Wed, Dec 07, 2011
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What are you doing New Year’s eve? Not seeing this cheap, lazy excuse for a movie, I hope…

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New Year’s Eve (trailer)

Thu, Sep 29, 2011
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Because Satan has been waiting for the moment to spring both Sarah Jessica Parker and Katherine Heigl on us in the same movie…

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