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'The Three Stooges': Lots of Yucks Amid the Nyuck-Nyuck-Nyucks

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 April 12, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 2 days ago

"The Three Stooges," the comedy nobody wanted, turns out to be hilarious. It's the Farrelly Brothers' best since “There’s Something About Mary”

  

Bonnie Raitt Review: For World-Weary Fans, 'Slipstream' Arrives in the Nick of Time

 April 10, 2012 By Chris Willman 5 days ago

On her first album in seven years, Raitt splits the difference between quiet covers of Dylan's most depressing ballads and reviving that greasy, slide-guitar-fueled, "Thing Called Love" spirit

  

Monica Review: 'New Life' Makes the Ex-'90s Teen Queen Sound Sleepy Before Her Time

 April 9, 2012 By Chris Willman 5 days ago

It's admirable that Monica wants to act her age (31) and eschew hip-hop for R&B. But just one up-tempo club banger wouldn't have killed this collection of droopy ballads

  

'Damsels in Distress' Review: Whit Stillman's Latest Has Great Lyrics, But the Music's a Little Off

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 April 6, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 1 week ago

“Metropolitan” director Whit Stillman returns after a long hiatus and once again charts the mating habits of the contemporary preppy

  

'American Reunion' Review: This Pie Has Become Tasteless

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 April 5, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 1 week ago

The balance of sweet and smutty that made the original “American Pie” so memorable is sorely absent from this pointless sequel

  

Nicki Minaj Review: 'Roman Reloaded' Is a Hot-Pink Mess

 April 3, 2012 By Chris Willman 1 week ago

Nicki Minaj's second album is full of adventurous hip-hop for its first third. Then it turns into the season's least interesting, most bloated dance-pop record

  

'Goon' Review: Comedy - and Brutality - on the Ice

Movies
 March 30, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 2 weeks ago

Seann William Scott’s kindhearted hockey brute anchors this hilariously brutal sports comedy

  

'Bully' Review: Best Intentions Don't Always Lead to Best Movies

Movies
 March 30, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 2 weeks ago

"Bully," the buzzed-about documentary, says all the right things about the hot-button issue of bullying but doesn’t say them particularly well

  

'Mirror Mirror' Review: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It's Down the Drain We Go

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 March 29, 2012 By Leah Rozen 2 weeks ago

"Mirror Mirror's" contemporized "Snow White" is a sadly earth-bound fairy tale

  

All-American Rejects Experience Growing Pains on 'Kids in the Street'

 March 27, 2012 By Chris Willman 2 weeks ago

Reaching for maturity on an uneven fourth album, the former pop-punk band All-American Rejects sacrifices too much spunk

  

Lionel Richie Goes Barely Country for 'Tuskegee'

 March 27, 2012 By Chris Willman 2 weeks ago

Only Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles cuts through the smooth-pop clutter in their duet on "Hello"

  

Madonna Review: 'MDNA' Has a Great Beat and You Can Pay Alimony To It

 March 26, 2012 By Chris Willman 2 weeks ago

Madonna becomes the Material Matron on her latest album "MDNA." It's two-thirds disco thumper, one-third divorce diary

  

‘The Deep Blue Sea’ Review: Passion and Torment in a Cold-Water Flat

Movies
 March 23, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 3 weeks ago

Rachel Weisz mixes sex appeal and melancholy in this examination of an unfaithful wife in post-WWII London

  

Shins Review: 'Port of Morrow' Bogs Down in Studio Splendor

 March 20, 2012 By Chris Willman 3 weeks ago

The first Shins album in 5 years ditches the group's former propulsion for luscious, listless production. It's not a terrible tradeoff, but what would Natalie Portman say?

  

Esperanza Spalding Review: 'Radio' Heralds Jazz's First Music-Video Star

 March 20, 2012 By Chris Willman 3 weeks ago

New album establishes Spalding as that rarest of things, a jazz singer capable of crossing over with self-penned tunes

  

'Hunger Games' Album Review: NPR-ish Teen Angst From Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Arcade Fire

 March 20, 2012 By Chris Willman 3 weeks ago

T Bone Burnett's quietly wily companion album for the movie eschews pulse-pounding tension for acoustic angst

  

'Hunger Games' Review: Compelling But Implausible, Like 'American Idol' with a Body Count

Movies
 March 20, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 3 weeks ago

Even non-readers of Suzanne Collins’ bestsellers will get sucked into this future dystopia where teens are forced to compete in bloodsport

  

‘Natural Selection’ Review: One Great Performance Can’t Save Trite-and-True(ish) Comedy

Movies
 March 16, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 4 weeks ago

Rachael Harris blossoms when she hits the highway to find her husband’s long lost son in a movie with too many familiar signposts

  

'Kid With a Bike' Review: Cannes Hit a Heartfelt, Powerful Fairy Tale

Movies
 March 15, 2012 By Leah Rozen 4 weeks ago

Set in a world of working class hurt, "Bike" won the grand jury prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival

  

'21 Jump Street' Review: You Have the Right to Remain Amused

Movies
 March 15, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 4 weeks ago

Action-comedy starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum treats the forgettable cops-in-high-school show as a launching pad for inspired lunacy

  

'Jeff, Who Lives at Home' Review: Funny ... and Surprisingly Surprising

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 March 15, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 4 weeks ago

Comic heavyweights Jason Segel and Ed Helms play brothers in a film that takes one unpredictably fascinating turn after another

  

'Once' Review: Cast Album Not the Real Swell Season, But An Incredible Simulation

 March 13, 2012 By Chris Willman 4 weeks ago

The bitter edge of Glen Hansard's voice is missing in otherwise lovely Broadway cast covers of tunes from the indie film hit "Once"

  

‘Footnote’ Review: Father & Son Battle Their Wits in Darkly Funny Oscar Nominee

Movies
 March 9, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 5 weeks ago

In a wonderfully twisted plot, politics become personal as parent and child vie for the same prize

  

'Friends With Kids': A Movie With All the Laughs of an All-Night Crying Jag

Movies
 March 8, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 5 weeks ago

Not even four "Bridesmaids" alums can make this trite would-be comedy about relationships and babies anything but bland pabulum

  

'A Thousand Words' Review: The Gag's on Eddie Murphy

Movies
 March 8, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 5 weeks ago

Eddie Murphy mugs his way through yet another high-concept comedy that skids into smarmy, feel-good territory

  

'John Carter' Review: Lifeless on Mars

Movies
 March 8, 2012 By Alonso Duralde 5 weeks ago

“Avatar” and all the other subsequent pillagers of the original Edgar Rice Burroughs story make this big-screen treatment feel redundant

  
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