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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)

Even the biggest Twi-hards can admit that Stephenie Meyer’s final book in the Twilight series was a bit of a train wreck. Where the first three books (and movies)...

Linda
The Cutting Edge (1992)

The Cutting Edge (1992)

Why is The Cutting Edge still so enjoyable? The two decades since its initial release reveals the cheesy 80’s music (in a movie made in the early 90s), the...

Linda
The Four-Faced Liar

The Four-Faced Liar

We’ve all seen this before: Young twenty-somethings seem to know everything until life and unexpected love (or lust?) throws them for a loop. In this case, we have squeaky-clean...

Linda
Eat Pray Love (2010)

Eat Pray Love (2010)

Julia Roberts stars as Gilbert, who leaves her husband (Billy Crudup) and embarks on what’s meant to be a year-long global journey of self-discovery but which, in Roberts hands,...

Vickie
Cairo Time (2009)

Cairo Time (2009)

The always-lovely and fabulous Patricia Clarkson plays Juliette, a woman who has traveled to Egypt’s capital city to meet her UN-worker husband for a holiday. But alas, he is...

Linda
Antarctica (2008)

Antarctica (2008)

No, Antarctica doesn’t take place in Antarctica at all (dammit!), but the far away continent and obscure travel destination serves as a metaphor. How far would you go for...

Linda
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

Yes, I’ve read all of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books, and frankly, I couldn’t remember a single plot point about Eclipse, aka Book Number Three in the series. So, let’s...

Linda
Adam (2009)

Adam (2009)

Written and directed by Max Mayer, and minus all the high-concept, big-budget bells and whistles that fill screens this time of year, the film is just a simple love...

Vickie
Valentine's Day (2010)

Valentine’s Day (2010)

Ostensibly, casting every bankable star in Hollywood in the same movie is a great idea. Who doesn’t love it when even the extras in a film turn out to...

Vickie
When in Rome (2010)

When in Rome (2010)

Not surprisingly, then, this would-be rom-com is neither romantic nor particularly funny, and is precisely the kind of movie you’d expect to hit screens at this cinematic dead-zone time...

Vickie
A Good Year (2006)

A Good Year (2006)

Even more surprising is that the film is helmed by big-budget tough guy Ridley Scott, who last teamed with Crowe for the decidedly less-genteel Gladiator. Based on the book...

Jennifer
Away We Go

Away We Go

Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski play Verona and Burt, a unmarried 30-something couple who fit together like a pair of old shoes. They are obviously on the long-term path...

Linda