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REVIEW: Ellen Barkin Snarls to Life in Ruthless, Unpleasant Another Happy Day

As a general rule in the movies, dysfunction is better offered as a side dish rather than a main course, accenting what’s really a story of grieving and letting go, or coming of age, or self-acceptance. Screaming, crying, acting out and mistreating others are tougher to take when they’re the primary focus instead of symptomatic of something deeper to be excavated and explored.

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REVIEW: Ellen Barkin Snarls to Life in Ruthless, Unpleasant Another Happy Day

Ricky Gervais Promises This Year’s Golden Globes Will Be His Last and Most Offensive

Maybe Ricky Gervais wasn’t kidding when he tweeted that he has already claimed the Holocaust and pedophilia as Golden Globe monologue material. The polarizing Globes host and comedian has taken to his blog to express his true (R-rated) intent in hosting this year’s ceremony and to declare that he will be making guests even more uncomfortable than they felt last year. Yikes!

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Ricky Gervais Promises This Year’s Golden Globes Will Be His Last and Most Offensive

REVIEW: Broken Beds! Bloody Placenta! Breaking Dawn — Part 1 Goes to Crazytown — Almost

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part I is such a departure from the previous three Twilight pictures that you could almost consider it a rogue offshoot. Director Bill Condon steers the franchise away from visions of wan, suffering teens and fake-fur werewolf tussles and brings it closer to — if not necessarily close to — something resembling human adult sexual obsession and its attendant responsibilities and anxieties. It’s like Jules and Jim for the Tiger Beat set.

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REVIEW: Broken Beds! Bloody Placenta! Breaking Dawn — Part 1 Goes to Crazytown — Almost