'What About Bob,' and other things only Bill Murray can get away with :
Bill Murray might be America's favorite celebrity prima donna.
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Bill Murray might be America's favorite celebrity prima donna. More
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on October 5th, 2012 2:18pmIt's usually Peter Sellers who gets credit for the great slapstick timing of the Pink Panther movies. But they also owe much to director Blake Edwards. More
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on August 18th, 2012 7:49amRed Hook Summer, a spiritual sequel to Do the Right Thing, is a very good Spike Lee movie. More
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on August 10th, 2012 4:22pmI thought Tony Gilroy might be able to pull off a great post-Matt Damon sequel to the Bourne Identity trilogy. More
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on August 10th, 2012 12:08pm92YTribeca is about to kick off a short but sweet retrospective called "Hitch's Bastards," a six-film series of offbeat movies that either pay homage or are indebted to the films of Alfred Hitchcock. More
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on August 3rd, 2012 2:26pmOf the titles screening at the Film Society at Lincoln Center's fun, summer-long "Midnight Movies" program, Fritz the Cat stands out for sheer lasciviousness. More
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on July 27th, 2012 4:22pmKiller Joe, based on a play about a corrupt cop in Texas trailer-park country, is a remarkable, and disgusting, movie adaptation. More
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on July 27th, 2012 12:30pmThis Sunday at "Universal 100," Film Forum's eclectically programmed Universal Studios centennial retrospective, you can attend screenings of Alfred Hitchcock's tongue-in-cheek thriller Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Steve Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). More
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on July 14th, 2012 8:00amBased on a novel by Don Winslow, Savages is Oliver Stone's most refreshing film in a while. As usual, Stone holds his viewers' hands too much in his mad need to not be misunderstood, and there's a lot of ripe dialogue and over-acting in the service of ideologically provocative themes. But it is uninhibited, and fun. More
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on July 3rd, 2012 2:03pm
