Comedies

Sex. Mila Kunis. Sex. Body double nudity. We can pretend. Mila Kunis. Thankfully, Friends and Benefits is that and more. A self-aware romantic comedy that also stars Justin Timberlake, Friends and Benefits is a surprisingly entertaining movie that works more often than not, even though it falls victim to the one rule it doesn’t break: predictability.

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A pothead hippie idealist who was stupid enough to sell drugs to a uniformed police officer is released from jail and integrates not-so-seamlessly into the lives of his three sisters in Our Idiot Brother, a surprisingly thoughtful comedy that doesn’t stir up a lot of laughs but is genuinely enjoyable nonetheless.

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Alexander Payne’s last movie was 2004′s Oscar-winning dramedy Sideways, which means audiences should pay attention to his newest release The Descendants, an alluring and engaging drama that maneuvers the fine line between life’s sadness and humor.

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It’s worth celebrating when Hollywood produces a Christmas movie that’s actually worth watching. There’s a reason why the most popular holiday movies are from yesteryear: it’s hard, apparently, to make a movie that sincerely captures the Christmas spirit. Over the last decade, Tim Allen and Vince Vaughn have combined to almost singlehandedly destroyed the genre, giving us such disasters as Santa Claus 3, Christmas with the Kranks, Fred Claus and Four Christmases. There hasn’t been a good holiday-themed movie since 2003′s Elf.

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“It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights…”

I’m a child of the 80′s.  I grew up watching classic Disney, “Fraggle Rock”, and “The Muppets”.  So, needless to say, I was really excited to see The Muppets, their first theatrical release in over a decade.  And with all the positive hype it was getting, my hopes were set pretty high.  I was not disappointed.

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Trolls exist, and they are big, angry and smell like trolls. In the found-footage adventure tale TrollHunter, a group of college filmmakers investigating the mysterious deaths of several bears in Norway track down a bear hunter who is anything but a bear hunter. What ensues is a surprisingly slick, engaging and fun movie about friendship, love and dogs. Or about trolls.

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The good news is that Mirror Mirror looks considerably different from its competitor Snow White and the Huntsman, to the degree that no one will confuse the two movies. The bad news is that the trailer pales in comparison in every possible way to the other movie’s trailer that debuted just last week.

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When aliens attack, they better not land in inner city South London. That’s the message in Attack the Block, the entertaining but inconsequential action-comedy about a bunch of pitch-black aliens with glowing razor-sharp teeth who meet their match in a group of ragtag hoodlums.

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The box office battle for first place… really wasn’t much of a battle. After a disappointing $34 million debut for DreamWorks’ Puss in Boots last week – which was at least partially attributed to opening the movie on Halloween weekend – the Antonio Banderas-starring family film bounced back in a big way, earning $33 million from 259 fewer theaters. The cute-but-dangerous cat dropped only 3% from last weekend, bringing its overall total to a more respectable $75 million, based on estimates.

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It’s that time of year again. Halloween is over, which means it is Christmas season. Screw Thanksgiving. Between now and the end of the year, it’s the time for buying gifts, holiday parties, snow, bad sweater parties, decorating the Christmas tree and enjoying the heartwarming Christmas movies that grace the airwaves, that embrace the holiday spirit, celebrate Christ and bring families closer together. Christmas movies like A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.

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What do you get when you let a director known for adequately average films and two comedians who haven’t starred in a good movie in years attempt to convince people to spend their hard-earned cash on a movie about people losing their hard-earned cash? A surprisingly convincing crime-comedy called Tower Heist, which, strangely, isn’t very funny.

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The title may be A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, but the second sequel to the cult classic rides into theaters on November 4, 2011 – just a couple of weeks away. In anticipation, we’ve added 20 new stills from the comedy, which returns John “Sulu” Cho and Kal “unretired” Penn to their respective roles of angry pot-smoking best friends who find themselves in a world of hurt. Naturally, NPH returns as NPH. Uh, Neil Patrick Harris. Duh.

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