Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel writes: The blockbuster "Ice Age" movies have, to a one, left me cold. (They are) 'toons reliant on a large cast of critters (Happy Meal-friendly) with famous voices making sitcom wisecracks … verbal and scatological, with a message shoehorned in as an afterthought. Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo and Ray Romano lend their voices. Rated PG
Orphan
1/2
Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel writes: The scares are cheap, the laughs mostly intentional and the ending is a real lulu in "Orphan," the latest from Jaume Collet-Serra, director of "House of Wax." Violent, overlong and overtly sexual, "Orphan" is a parental nightmare painted in standard horror strokes. It feels too slow and moody for the Halloween crowd, and too absurd and silly for more discriminating horror fans. Rated R
Nothing Like the Holidays
1/2
Ty Burr of the Boston Globe writes: "Nothing Like the Holidays" offers proof that canned ham can still taste pretty good. A Latino entry in the weathered home-for-the-holidays genre, the movie leaves no cliché unturned, but the enthusiasm of the players and the genuine feelings that courses through the story fan a few new flames from the smoldering Yule log. The movie's not really interested in originality. Instead, it wants to wrap the old seasonal homilies in the warm specifics of time and place and ethnicity. At that, it succeeds. Rated PG-13
Whatever Works
1/2
Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel writes: Woody Allen has aged into that grandpa you hate taking out to eat because you never know what he might say. "Whatever Works" is an Allen comedy that works about half the time and flutters along just above Allen's big recent missteps. Allen covers overly familiar ground – the futility of love, the meaningless of existence, age- inappropriate love affairs, sophisticated New Yorkers vs. the "hicks" who fill the rest of America. But he does it with just enough novelty for his fans to indulge him one more time. Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr. star. Rated PG-13
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