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The Watch—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • July 27, 2012 12:58 AM
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'The Watch' is the cinematic equivalent of a bag of pork rinds: wholly unappealing to some people and catnip to others.
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More: Film Reviews, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, The Watch

21 Jump Street—movie review

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  • March 16, 2012 1:00 AM
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Following in the hallowed footsteps of 'The Brady Bunch Movie', '21 Jump Street' revives a vintage TV series and subverts it at the same time. Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who have written and directed TV and theatrical animation such as 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs', resist the temptation to turn this into a live-action cartoon, which is all to the good. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are well cast as former high school rivals who meet up again as police academy students and become friends.
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Moneyball—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • September 23, 2011 4:30 AM
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Moneyball is easy to admire, a bit more difficult to love. That’s because the film, like its central character (well played by Brad Pitt), keeps its emotions in check so much of the time. It should be no shock that the film is intelligent and well-made, considering the source material (a book by financial writer Michael Lewis, who also authored The Blind Side), the screenwriters (Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin), and the director (stage veteran Bennett Miller, whose first film was Capote). What’s somewhat surprising is how engrossing a story about—

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