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Movie review: ‘Bridesmaids’ reinvents an old genre
Posted on May 18, 2011 | No CommentsBy Christy Lemire/AP Movie Critic LOS ANGELES, California (AP) – “Bridesmaids’’ takes the typically cliched wedding movie genre and completely upends it and reinvents it into something surprisingly daring and... -
“Country Strong” is a weak movie
Posted on January 12, 2011 | No CommentsBy Christy Lemire/AP Movie Critic Some of the best country songs are the ones that tell a story – ones that feature vivid imagery, a strong narrative drive and a... -
Movie review: “True Grit” truly entertaining
Posted on December 30, 2010 | No CommentsBy Christy Lemire/AP Movie Critic “True Grit’’ is one of the most mainstream, crowd-pleasing films Joel and Ethan Coen have ever made. It’s sort of a screwball Western, if you... -
Movie review: Latest “Harry Potter” is grim, forboding
Posted on November 22, 2010 | No CommentsBy Christy Lemire/AP Movie Critic Fear and loathing, doom and gloom permeate nearly every minute of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1,’’ the beginning of the end of... -
Movie review: “Unstoppable” moves fast, stays gripping
Posted on November 17, 2010 | No CommentsBy Christy Lemire/AP Movie Critic Finally, we’ve found the ideal use for Tony Scott’s hyperkinetic, headache-inducing filmmaking style: a movie about a runaway train, barreling through small Pennsylvania towns filled... -
Movie review: Strange ending flaws “Last Exorcism”
Posted on September 1, 2010 | No CommentsBy Christy LemireAP Movie Critic “The Last Exorcism’’ is one of the scariest movies to come along in a long time, until the last five minutes or so, when it... -
Movie review: “Eat Pray Love” feeds its audience
Posted on August 18, 2010 | No CommentsBy Christy Lemire/AP Movie Critic “Eat Pray Love’’ does exactly what it should to satisfy its core audience: It provides a gorgeous escape, exquisitely photographed and full of female wish... -
Movie review: “Dinner for Schmucks” is a thin meal
Posted on August 4, 2010 | No CommentsBy Christy Lemire/AP Movie Critic There’s a lot less bite in “Dinner for Schmucks’’ than there was in the classic French farce that was its inspiration. Whereas “The Dinner Game’’... -
Movie review: Zaniness rules in “Ramona and Beezus”
Posted on July 28, 2010 | No CommentsBy Christy LeMire/AP Movie Critic Little kids and tweens – girls, specifically – probably will eat up “Ramona and Beezus,’’ or at least be suitably amused by it. They will... -
Movie review: “Inception” is a four-star roller coaster
Posted on July 21, 2010 | 3 CommentsBy Christy Lemire/AP Movie Critic Driving home from a screening of “Inception’’ the other night, my husband said to me, “I don’t know how you’re going to write about this...








