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Pain & Gain

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • April 26, 2013 12:08 AM
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  • 4 Comments
What burns me up about "Pain & Gain" is that the trailer, and even the excerpts shown on TV, make it look like fun.

BROKEN CITY

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • January 18, 2013 12:56 AM
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  • 0 Comments
When a film purports to have a powerful secret—and then, after almost two hours, produces a “big reveal” that’s no big deal, it’s pretty disheartening. That’s how I felt at the end of "Broken City."

Contraband—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • January 13, 2012 1:05 AM
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  • 10 Comments
If ever there were a typical January movie, it’s Contraband, a film so dreary (and downright distasteful) that no studio would think of releasing it in December, when all eyes are focused on quality. I never saw the 2008 Icelandic film on which it’s based, but I presume it must have been better than this, to persuade savvy producers that it was worth remaking in English. Baltasar Kormákur, who starred in the original, directed this adaptation.