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This publicity photo released by courtesy Sony Pictures Classics shows Trine Dyrholm as Ida, left, and Pierce Brosnan as Philip, in the film, "Love Is All You Need." (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, Doane Gregory)

Review: 'Love Is All You Need'? That's all you get

The message behind most romantic comedies is the simple-minded sentiment that love is all you need. So when Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier takes that title for a departure from somber drama to romance, you might expect her to deliver it with some serious irony. Yet in Bier's "Love Is All ...

This film publicity image released by Disney-Marvel Studios shows Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in a scene from "Iron Man 3." (AP Photo/Disney, Marvel Studios)

Review: 'Iron Man 3' loaded down by heavy metal

In the galaxy of big-screen superheros — a rather glum lot — Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is the snappy one. He's the sarcastic, motor-mouthed, preening, self-referential do-gooder, as opposed to all those self-serious crusaders. No matter how much of a scrap heap of metal-twisting mayhem the franchise piles on ...

This undated publicity photo released by courtesy of Paramount Pictures shows, from left, Dwayne Johnson as Paul Doyle, Mark Wahlberg as Daniel Lugo and Anthony Mackie as Adrian Doorbal in the film, "Pain and Gain," directed by Michael Bay from Paramount Pictures. The film releases in theaters April 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures)

Review: Bay's new flick is all pain, no gain

There's a siege mentality about Michael Bay's movies, as though viewers are the enemy holed up in a bunker and he's the guy ordering heavy-metal music around-the-clock to wear down our morale and force us to surrender. Bay's true-crime caper "Pain & Gain" lacks the visual-effects mayhem and sci-fi cacophony ...

Austin director Jeff Nichols is the director of ‘Mud,’ a new film starring Matthew McConaughey that takes place on the Mississippi River. Nichols is seen here on the Colorado River in Southeast Austin.

Review: 'Mud' oozes traditional qualities

The story of a sympathetic fugitive who forges a bond with two teenage boys near a mighty river down South, "Mud" is shot through with traditional qualities of American literature and drama. Jeff Nichols' much-anticipated follow-up to his breakthrough second feature "Take Shelter" feels less adventurous and unsettling but remains ...

Actors Dennis Quaid, left, and Zac Efron arrive for the premiere of "At Any Price" at the Paramount Theater on Saturday, March 16, 2013.

Review: 'At Any Price' doesn't register

The flowing Iowa cornfields of "At Any Price" have nothing on the amber waves of Zac Efron's hair. In "At Any Price," Ramin Bahrani plants a sweeping Midwest tale of fathers and sons, fields and seed. His camera floats over cornfields listening to the rustling of the stalks, but the ...

This film publicity image released by Universal Pictures shows Olga Kurylenko in a scene from "Oblivion." (AP Photo/Universal Pictures)

Review: Elegant if familiar, 'Oblivion' mesmerizes

Early in the sleek sci-fi thriller "Oblivion," Tom Cruise, as a flyboy repairman living a removed, Jetsons-like existence above an invaded and deserted Earth, intones his home sickness. "I can't shake the feeling that despite all that's happened, Earth is still my home," he narrates. One can't help but chortle ...

Review: 'Kon-Tiki' is handsome yet underwhelming

The Norwegian directing team of Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, whose biopic of World War II resistance fighter Max Manus was a huge hit on home turf, have turned to another native hero for "Kon-Tiki." One of the most-vaunted escapades of the 20th century, Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Peru-to-Polynesia expedition by ...

This publicity photo provided by Pantelion Films shows Edward James Olmos in a scene from the film, "Filly Brown." The film releases on April 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Pantelion Films/Lionsgate, John Castillo)

Review: Rodriguez saves 'Filly's' uneven script

As both an actor and a rapper, Gina Rodriguez gives an empowered performance in "Filly Brown," playing a young Los Angeles woman angling for hip-hop stardom as a means to help spring her mother from prison. But the heavy-handed, untidy story sense of co-directors Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos ...

This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson, left, and Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey in a scene from "42." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, D. Stevens)

Review: '42' is classy but tame Robinson tale

Jackie Robinson was the ideal class act to break the barrier and become the first black player in Major League Baseball. Writer-director Brian Helgeland's Robinson biopic "42" is a class act itself, though not always an engaging act. It's such a familiar story that any faithful film biography almost inevitably ...

Review: 'Scary Movie' frighteningly unfunny

You have to at least give "Scary Movie 5" points for timeliness. This latest installment of the horror movie spoof franchise manages to deliver parodies of movies as recent as last week's "Evil Dead" remake, not to mention one that hasn't even been made yet ("Fifty Shades of Gray"). But ...

This undated photo provided by Magnolia Pictures shows Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko in a scene from, "To the Wonder." (AP Photo/Magnolia Pictures, Mary Cybulski)

Review: Malick's latest is flawed but heavenly

"Wonder" has always been the word with Terrence Malick. He might be the most sought-after, high-budget art-house filmmaker on the planet, a director whose talent for cinematic poetry and freeform improvisation gives him virtually the pick of Hollywood's A-list litter. But for all his voice-over philosophizing, his movies are completely ...

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