Movie critic Craig Outhier's irreverent guide to the best and worst of what's now playing in theaters. This week: "The Visitor" is compelling, while erotic thriller "Deception" is anything but.
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1. “The Visitor”: Backs up its pro-multicultural message with real dramatic muscle. Playing exclusively at the Harkins Camelview.
2. “In Bruges”:Pound for dementedly funny pound, still the best comedy out there. Colin Farrell is brilliant.
3. “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”: The grand pooh-bah of comedy, Judd Apatow, anoints another star in Jason Segel.
4. “Baby Mama”: Remember that Burt Reynolds movie “Paternity”? It’s like that, only now he’s Tina Fey.
5. “Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay”: Reefer-addled irreverence, thy name is Kal Penn and John Cho. |
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1. “Deception”: Three years from now, in a Des Moines, Iowa, hotel room equipped with free Cinemax, after a fruitless night in the bar downstairs, you will finally watch this movie.
2. “Leatherheads”: Rigorous government studies have demonstrated that one out of every five George Clooney movies sucks eggs.
3. “21”: Whitewashed cast the least of its problems.
4. “Stop Loss”: The latest timely commentary on the Iraq War that nobody wants to see.
5. “Expelled”:Evidently, Darwinism caused the Holocaust. Thank goodness there are rational, fair-minded people around to tell us these things.
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