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BBC Picks Best Film of 21st Century, and You'll Prob Agree

BBC Culture polled 177 film critics on their favorite movies of the 21st century (so far!) and coming in at number one is 2001 Skin favorite Mulholland Drive. Those pervs! Check out the hot lesbian scene with Naomi Watts and Laura Harring and decide if you agree! … read more

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The happythankyoumoreplease Trailer Leaves Us Hoping for More, Please

You should never really judge a film by its trailer, if only because, like books and their covers, the trailer only tells the part of the story marketing wants you to know. So, let’s all give the new trailer for Josh Radnor’s well-received 2010 Sundance Audience Award winner a pass…because, hoo boy , is this one horrible.

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REVIEW: Genre Confusion Makes For Hard-to-Watch Dilemma

The Dilemma , Ron Howard’s cheerless, would-be relationship farce, begins with two couples around a dinner table and ends with two men running into each other’s arms. Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) are tight. Friends since college, they share their lives, they share a business — Nick designs car engines and Ronny sells them to Big Auto — and they’ve shared a woman at least once, just to keep things on the level. They share, in other words, the kind of bond that has transformed a certain kind of comedy into a homo-social love story, a soft-core sausage fest.

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Sex and the City 2, Little Fockers Named Worst Movies of 2010 by Top Critics

Over at Vulture , fifty top film critics — including Movieline’s own Stephanie Zacharek and Michelle Orange — have voted on the worst movies of the year. The winner? Sex and the City 2 , of course! Wrote Stephanie : “Positing itself as a fun girls’ night out, an escapist fashion fantasy, this Manolo-hoofed monstrosity gave us only crass consumerism of the lowest order, a parade of brand names masquerading as style and failing miserably.” Other films on the list: Furry Vengence , Grown Ups , The Last Airbender and, shockingly, Black Swan . It would be a critics’ list without some controversy! [ Vulture ]

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Sex and the City 2: The Myth of the Critic-Proof Movie

Ah, Memorial Day Weekend. The unofficial start of summer has finally arrived and so to have the annual think pieces about the relevancy of film critics. If it feels like this is happening earlier here in 2010 than it did in 2009, that’s because it is. The debate didn’t start last year until Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen dropped a big turd on multiplexes — it had a 20 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes — yet still garnered $836 million worldwide from viewers. This year the party got started with Sex and the City 2 , a film so roundly hated by film critics that it has drawn comparisons to feces, terrorism and rape. And yet for every negative review, it feels like another 100 tickets are sold. The conventional wisdom states that Sex and the City 2 is “critic-proof,” but that implies that critics matter to a film’s financial success. Spoiler: They don’t.

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Former Timesman Very Opposed to Paying Taxes

We take our eye off the Detroit News for a few days and what happens? Former NYT movie critic and amateur cigar smuggler Elvis Mitchell is found to owe the IRS half a million bucks

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Former Timesman Very Opposed to Paying Taxes