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Gary Thompson: In Hollywood, summer has come to mean momentousness, a space where you can't play unless you've got a gargantuan budget and a 2.5-hour running time.
Gary Thompson: Rashida Jones has been such a consistent, pleasant and welcome presence in movies and television, we may not have noticed she hasn't been given a lot to do.
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'ParaNorman' more mainstream than creepy 'Coraline'
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Gary Thompson: The animators who gave us the memorably creepy "Coraline" are back with "ParaNorman" - more mainstream, but still on the macabre side.
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Will Ferrell 'kind of fascinated' by John Edwards
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"The perfect hair, the eloquence, and then he just makes these really horrible choices," says Will Ferrell, whose character in The Campaign is loosely modeled on John Edwards.
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'Campaign' leaves us in a blue state
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Gary Thompson: In "The Campaign," some of Hollywood's top comic talent takes on our laughable political system and comes up with something that's curiously short on laughs.
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Little 'Hope' in this romcom
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Gary Thompson: "Hope Springs" stars Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as a wife and husband entering couples' therapy after 30 years of marriage. Except its not really couples therapy. It's full-on sex therapy.
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‘Beasts of the Southern Wild' director Benh Zeitlin defends film
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Gary Thompson: Some dissenters think early Oscar contender "Beasts of the Southern Wild" is a condescending portrayal of impoverished people. We had a chance to ask accused dilettante and director Benh Zeitlin about assertions that his movie paints a rich kid's rosy view of poverty.
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Thanks to Biel, Beckinsale, ‘Recall' isn't a ‘Total' misfire
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Gary Thompson: The Colin Farrell "Recall" is different from the Arnold Schwarzenegger "Recall" — the Martian colonies have been replaced by earth colonies, and coherence has been replaced by ceaseless rolling action sequences and loud banging noises.
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‘Ruby Sparks' an offbeat romantic comedy
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Gary Thompson: Ruby is a bubbly redhead who shakes Calvin out of the personal and creative rut, and you're thinking, here we go again with the kooky redemptive dame. In Zoe Kazan's version, Ruby is not quite real, quite literally.
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‘Queen of Versailles' gets royal treatment
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Gary Thompson: What we do have is the amazing documentary "Queen of Versailles," and if you had to pick one movie to place in a time capsule to explain our foolishness to future generations, this might be the one.
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‘Watch' has plenty of time for penis jokes
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Gary Thompson: In the raunchy sci-fi comedy "The Watch," four suburban guys form a town watch that ends up being the last line of defense against an alien invasion.
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Oliver Stone and his ‘Savages' take on drug war
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Gary Thompson: Oliver Stone examines the war on drugs in "Savages" and finds it a mostly futile exercise, useful mainly as a source of garish material for wigged-out R-rated movies like this one.
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