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Farrell sends up cop clichés in ‘The Other Guys’
 Neil Pond August 18, 2010 In a sweltering movie summer short on cool laughs for anyone under the age of 10, Will Farrell comes through in “The Other Guys,” a rollicking new PG-13 comedy about two hapless NYPD desk jockeys on the trail of a crime that turns out to be much bigger than they anticipated. (More) Angelina & ‘Salt’ add spice to summer movie season
 Neil Pond August 5, 2010 If you’ve been reading or watching the news, you know about the U.S. government’s recent bust-up of a Soviet spy ring. Most of the media attention was focused on a pretty young party girl who made the Manhattan social scene while funneling top-level secrets back to the Russkies. (More) ‘Despicable Me’ a delightful surprise
Neil Pond July 21, 2010 If you think “Despicable Me” is just another hyperkinetic kids movie with lots of slapstick, silly characters and slick, noisy, computer-animated mayhem, you may be missing a real summer treat. It’s all that, to be sure, but also a clever, robustly imaginative movie with a big heart that matches its broad humor, and some of the niftiest 3-D in any film so far this year. (More) ‘A-Team’ indestructible, overstuffed escapism
 Neil Pond June 29, 2010 Based on the 1983-87 TV series of the same name, this empty-headed, heavy-handed slab of summer escapism is so noisy, so busy, so start-to-finish overstuffed with its own swaggering, smirking macho bombast that it barely even bothers to make sense, much less give more than a cursory salute to its small-screen roots. (More)
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