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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’
A word to the wise for parents: When you go to weddings in 15 years thrown by the little girls who grew up on this Miley Cyrus flick, you better know how to perform the hoedown throwdown. Published April 10, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Tokyo!’
Throw three avant-garde filmmakers on the streets of a famous city and ask each one to create a short. It's an idea that has been done plenty of times — typically with more mainstream filmmakers — in movies such as 2006's "Paris je t'aime." Published April 10, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Harvard Beats Yale 29-29’
There's something oddly dissonant about listening to a gaggle of Harvard graduates talk about being scrappy, blue-collar underdogs. But that's the heart of "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29," Kevin Rafferty's new documentary about the 1968 game between the two Ivy League powers. Published April 3, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Fast and Furious’
"The Fast and the Furious" has spawned a third sequel, the first to star the original cast. This one is called "Fast and Furious." The reason for dropping the "the" is unclear. Published April 3, 2009
Economy delaying 3-D hits
The move to 3D has been slowed by the economy. Published April 3, 2009
Folksy, controversial Cosby wins Twain prize
As a young child, Bill Cosby would nod off in his crib at night to his mother's bedtime readings of the Mark Twain classics. Published April 2, 2009
Cosby to receive Mark Twain Prize
Bill Cosby was announced as the 2009 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, the Kennedy Center's annual honor celebrating the career of a renowned comedian. Published April 1, 2009
Bromance ‘Love’ a hit
In many ways it's a golden era in Hollywood for a filmmaker like John Hamburg, director and co-writer of "I Love You, Man." Published March 31, 2009
BEYOND: Czech film festival returns to District
For the second year in a row, the Echoes of One World film festival comes to Washington, bringing the highlights of the Czech Republic's foremost documentary film festival to the United States. Published March 27, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Spinning Into Butter’
"Spinning Into Butter" is the perfect example of a movie taking a fairly interesting premise and, through sheer incompetence of acting, writing and directing, turning it into an unwatchable mess. Published March 27, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’
On the one hand, "Monsters vs. Aliens" is a totally formulaic computer animated comedy. On the other hand, is a genre-busting technical achievement akin to "Toy Story" or "Snow White" in its cinematic ambition. Published March 27, 2009
EDGE: Having faith in film
It isn't a huge shock that "Knowing" has taken a critical drubbing; this is, after all, a big-budget Nicolas Cage picture, and they tend to get trashed. Published March 27, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Knowing’
In "Knowing," director Alex Proyas finally overcomes his habit of capping films with lowbrow violence and, instead, churns out a relatively fascinating interpretation of the biblical story of Ezekiel. Published March 20, 2009
ANALYSIS: Jonas Bros. shun clean image
Tween pop sensation the Jonas Brothers have suffered such pitiless ridicule for being squeaky clean that they are now trying to deflect public attention from their wholesome image. Published March 20, 2009
BEYOND: Fleeting fame
It's sometimes a little sad to remember that the vast majority of stars don't burn out. They just fade away. "The Great Buck Howard" is the tale of one such star. Published March 20, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘I Love You, Man’
It's a sign of just how bleak the cinematic landscape was before the resurgence of the R-rated adult comedy that even an Apatow-lite retread like "I Love You, Man" scores huge laughs in the theater. Published March 20, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Duplicity’
"Duplicity" thinks it's a far more clever movie than it actually is. Published March 20, 2009
Taking a chance on war films
Some argue that the public simply has "Iraq fatigue," while others suggest that the public isn't interested in entertainment that disparages the military. Published March 13, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Race to Witch Mountain’
"Race to Witch Mountain" is pretty standard kiddie fare: Cute, precocious children are protected by a world-weary, wisecracking father figure; one-liners abound; the good guys triumph in the end. Published March 13, 2009
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Last House on the Left’
It's one of the lower things that a critic can do, to spoil the ending of a movie he doesn't like in order to dissuade his readers from seeing it. But what happens when the movie spoils itself in the trailer? Published March 13, 2009
