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REVIEW: Friends with Benefits Pays Almost Zero Dividends

The idea of romantic comedies is that you want to see the two leads get past all their false starts and misunderstandings and get together. But what happens if you just don’t care? Scratch that: What happens if the leads in question are Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis and you still don’t care?

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REVIEW: Friends with Benefits Pays Almost Zero Dividends

TRAILER: Could Friends with Benefits Be the Movie No Strings Attached Wished It Was?

Confession time: I love Justin Timberlake. Not his music career, mind you — though who doesn’t love a little ” Rock Your Body ” every once in a while — but his acting one. You can grumble that he jumped the shark with endless appearances on SNL and his performance as himself — er, Sean Parker in The Social Network , but for my money, Timberlake constantly hits it out of the park. He even makes something as disposable as Bad Teacher look moderately watchable in a “Let’s wait to see it on a Wednesday night on HBO2 !” sort of way. All of which is a long way around saying that his presence in Friends with Benefits is key to making this summer rom-com look positively charming.

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TRAILER: Could Friends with Benefits Be the Movie No Strings Attached Wished It Was?

REVIEW: Emma Stone Scores a 4.0 in Easy A

Judged on a curve, set by the testosterone-fueled raunch-a-thons that have dominated teen comedies from American Pie to Superbad and beyond, Easy A deserves an A+, with extra credit for lack of misogyny, cock talk, or flatulence. But curves or concessions aren’t necessary. Not when the film exhibits this much wit and intelligence, and not with Emma Stone casually owning the screen and turning this buoyant lark into a star-making vehicle of Pretty Woman proportions.

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REVIEW: Emma Stone Scores a 4.0 in Easy A

Easy A Director Will Gluck on Emma Stone’s Star Quality and Amanda Bynes’s Semi-Retirement

The upcoming Emma Stone vehicle Easy A is all about how one simple thing can change your reputation overnight, so what will the highly anticipated high school comedy do for director Will Gluck? In advance of the film’s Toronto Film Festival premiere, Movieline talked to Gluck about his postmodern approach to comedy, his next movie Friends with Benefits (which is competing against two other projects that want to use that title), and the asthma attack-inducing power of the female orgasm.

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Easy A Director Will Gluck on Emma Stone’s Star Quality and Amanda Bynes’s Semi-Retirement