Review: 'Transformers' is another loud bruiser

To his credit, Michael Bay does try to put more human touch into "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," aiming to make up for the clattering mess of overgrown kitchen appliances that duked it out in the franchise's last installment. Bay went to the far side of the moon and even ...

• 5:25 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Movie trailer: Larry Crowne (July 1)

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• 5:13 p.m. Monday, June 27, 2011

Movie trailer: The Perfect Host (July 1)

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• 5:11 p.m. Monday, June 27, 2011

Movie trailer: Monte Carlo (July 1)

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• 4:18 p.m. Monday, June 27, 2011

Review: Supporting cast carries 'Bad Teacher'

An employee of the Chicago Public Schools system, the ha-cha seventh grade educator Elizabeth portrayed by Cameron Diaz in "Bad Teacher" blows most of her classroom time showing her students (whose names she never learns) movies such as "Lean on Me," "Stand and Deliver" and "Dangerous Minds" while she nurses ...

• 8:20 a.m. Friday, June 24, 2011

Review: Cedar Rapids

3 stars They were staples of popular literature, Broadway and the movies long before the movies could talk: comic yarns in which small-town naifs pack their bags and hit the big city, where they learn about life and love and what they've been missing. In the 1920s, playwright George S. ...

• 3:52 p.m. Monday, June 20, 2011

Review: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

2 stars Released a year ago, the first "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" movie captured remarkably little of the sly charm of the Jeff Kinney books that line my son's bookshelf. The film did, however, capture enough of the fan base to warrant a sequel. And here we are. And ...

• 3:50 p.m. Monday, June 20, 2011

Review: The Adjustment Bureau

3 stars "The Adjustment Bureau" unfolds on two separate planes of reality: the human world as we know it, where we presume to be in charge, and the world of the fate-masters pulling our strings and controlling our destinies. Compared to the five levels of play in the much grander ...

• 3:47 p.m. Monday, June 20, 2011

Review: Unknown

3 stars Sleek and, until a stupidly violent climax, very entertaining, "Unknown" is the opposite of "Memento." It's about a man who knows who he is but everybody around him has forgotten, or thinks he's delusional, or lying. In other words, it's a metaphor for the film industry. Liam Neeson ...

• 3:46 p.m. Monday, June 20, 2011

Movie trailer: Cars 2 (June 24)

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• 12:30 p.m. Monday, June 20, 2011

Movie trailer: Bad Teacher (June 24)

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Movie trailer: A Better Life (June 24)

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Movie trailer: Conan O'brien Can't Stop (June 24)

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• 12:20 p.m. Monday, June 20, 2011

Review: Battle: Los Angeles

3 stars Most everything about "Battle: Los Angeles" is either derivative or a lie, including its top-line credit that reads: "Columbia Pictures presents, in association with Relativity Media, an Original Film production." Original, it's not. Exciting, it is. This jacked-up B-movie hybrid of "Black Hawk Down" and "War of the ...

• 4:27 p.m. Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Review: Red Riding Hood

2 stars "One bite," whispers the man with the supernatural gaze to the woman in the hood, "and you'll be like me." Wait. Is this the latest arrival in the "Twilight" franchise? Contractually, no. In every other way, yes. "Red Riding Hood," director Catherine Hardwicke's overheated yet underpowered version of ...

• 4:26 p.m. Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Review: Hall pass

2 stars Up until their remake of "The Heartbreak Kid," two of the unfunniest hours ever, Peter and Bobby Farrelly could be counted on to provide a few fine rude laughs even when their films wobbled. Take, for instance, the shot of Jim Carrey attempting to go to the bathroom ...

• 4:20 p.m. Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Movie trailer: Mr. Popper's Penguins (June 17)

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Movie trailer: The Art Of Getting By (June 17)

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Movie trailer: The Stone (June 17)

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Movie trailer: Buck (June 17)

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• 6:00 a.m. Monday, June 13, 2011