Southern Oregon CW Movie Reviews
This time, “Harold & Kumar” seek freedom, not burgers
April 25, 2008 - 3:27PM
If you loved the reefer-fueled hijinks of “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” (2004), are you preordained to laugh yourself stupid when the duo goes waaaay down south in "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay".
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“Baby Mama” is not “Knocked Up”
April 25, 2008 - 3:18PM
As Kate Holbrook, the unfashionably infertile heroine of "Baby Mama," Tina Fey embodies the reproductive flip-side of "Juno," "Knocked Up," "Waitress," et al.
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Soft drumbeat of advocacy
April 25, 2008 - 2:59PM
Like a shrewd salesman who keeps his suitcase to the side, Thomas McCarthy's “The Visitor” doesn't immediately announce itself as a movie about immigration policy.
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“21” needs to know when to hold 'em
March 28, 2008 - 12:47PM
Far less fascinating as an over-packaged, over-plotted thriller than it was as a nonfiction book, 21 is the sort of movie that inspires the question, "Why didn't they just make it into a documentary?" Certainly, the story of six MIT blackjack geeks who fleece Las Vegas would have been more informative and credible that way.
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“Stop-Loss”: A meandering and uncertain drama
March 28, 2008 - 12:43PM
As a battle-tested Iraq war hero who cuts and runs when Uncle Sam invites him back for more, Ryan Phillippe embodies the progressive protest-politics of Kimberly Peirce's Stop Loss.
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“The Hammer” hits the comedy nail on the head
March 28, 2008 - 12:37PM
Adam Carolla has always been a bob-and-weave kind of comic – whining about this, riffing on that, finding humor in the details.
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“Under the Same Moon” sweet but forgettable
March 28, 2008 - 12:29PM
Under the Same Moon is a sweet but forgettable togetherness yarn, poised ever-so-lightly on the knife edge of America's immigration debate.
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