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- 'The Great Gatsby' director Baz Luhrmann hopes his movie will inspire viewers to party like it's the '20s
'The Great Gatsby' 'captures summer in New York... accurately... viscerally,' the director said. 'The Great Gatsby' stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the titular character and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan.
- 'Peeples' is clunky, but star Craig Robinson is entertaining
'Peeples' is predictable, but Robinson keeps many of the movie's gags from collapsing.
- 'Venus and Serena' has fascinating then-and-now footage
The documentary is more testimonial than investigation, but seeing the tennis champions at a young age is enjoyable.
- 'The Great Gatsby' is an over-the-top misfire
'The Great Gatsby,' directed by Baz Luhrmann, tries too hard to update the story and piles on the party scenes.
- Ray Harryhausen was a special-effects pioneer
Ray Harryhausen perfected the stop-motion method of effects, creating characters that were from 3 to 15 inches tall for his sequences. Ray Harryhausen is cited as an inspiration by director George Lucas and writer Ray Bradbury.
- 'Scarface' actor Mario Machado dies
'Scarface' actor Mario Machado died Saturday in Los Angeles. The 'Scarface' actor enjoyed a career as a TV news anchor as well as appearances in movies such as the 'Robocop' series and 'Scarface.'
- 'Iron Man 3' is all action match-ups
'Iron Man 3' has a great leading man in Robert Downey Jr., but the fight sequences in the movie rang from passable to interminable.
- 'Midnight's Children' tells Salman Rushdie's story of a pair of Indian boys switched at birth
'Midnight's Children' sustains the magical tone of Rushdie's novel at first, but the plot eventually gets bogged down.
- 'Something in the Air' shows that revolutionaries like comforts as much as the ruling class
'Something' shows director Olivier Assayas's sympathy with the movie's would-be revolutionary.
- 'What Maisie Knew' gives Henry James a New York spin
'What Maisie Knew' focuses on the daughter of two parents getting divorced.
- The 25 best movie musicals of all time The American Film Institute picks the best song-and-dance stories ever put on film.
- 'In the House' has a great premise but fails to fully explore its plot
'In the House' is directed by François Ozon.
- 'To the Wonder' is director Terrence Malick at his most incomprehensible
'To the Wonder' stars Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko.
- 'Arthur Newman' has a dreary plot despite its star leads
The plot of 'Arthur Newman' – loners embark on an odyssey full of life lessons – seems to be more interesting to filmmakers than audiences.
- 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' has a great cast and timely story
'Reluctant' is occasionally too touchy-feely, but the cast, including Kiefer Sutherland and Liev Schreiber, are all good.
- 'Pain & Gain' never comes to life
Director Michael Bay seems to have forgotten he's directing humans rather than robots in his new film.
- '42' is a dull treatment of Jackie Robinson's story
'42' emphasizes Robinson's ordeal in baseball to the exclusion of everything else in his life.
- 'The Angels' Share' is an odd mix of frivolous and socially conscious
'Angels' follows a group of Glasgow toughs who try to pull off a robbery of high-end whiskey.
- 'Django Unchained' pulled from Chinese theaters: Did it run afoul of censors?
'Django Unchained' was taken out of Chinese theaters on its opening day. The importer said it was not screened because of a technical issue, but some speculate that Chinese censors may have objected to some scenes in the film.
- 'Trance' tries to fit into too many genres
'Trance' tries to appeal to every audience member, but the effect is more alienating than enjoyable.