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COWBOYS & ALIENS (Out Dec. 6) (2011) * *1/2 (B-) Directed by Jon Favreau Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown, Keith Carradine, Noah Ringer Universal//Rated PG-13//Sci-Fi/Western//118...

Typically giving her role her all, Anne Hathaway ultimately is foiled by the effort to maintain a British accent in this adaptation of David Nicholls' novel about two college acquaintances whose lives are traced over 20 years on the same day ... July 15,...

0.5 stars (out of four) For no clear reason, Dexter (Jim Sturgess) and Emma (Anne Hathaway with a shaky British accent) neglect to have sex during a one-night stand and then decide a platonic friendship is the way to go. And though we’ve never seen...

On the one hand it guarantees an audience of avid devotees; on the other hand it runs the risk of damaging the perfect scenario created in your head as you turn the pages. I was mesmerized by British author David Nicholls’ bestseller, “One...

  The best thing about One Day was that I was watching it at 11 a.m. with a room full of other critics, and we all just heckled the screen. Even a scene where somebody dies horrifically, me and a few others laughed out loud. We never once rooted for...

Not a lot of love affairs, real or cinematic, can have it said of them that they end better than they begin.  But “One Day” ends with a heartfelt flourish that was sorely missing from its first 90 minutes. This episodic romance works in fits...

The trades — Variety and The Hollywood Reporter — used to be known for their more commercial approach to movie reviews. What are the film's box office prospects? That was their byword. Then, in the explosion of reviewing that marked the advent...

May 6 The Beaver A once-successful toy executive and family man suffering from depression begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet. With Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin. Written by Kyle Killen. Directed by Foster. Summit...