Starring: Review: The title dares to evoke From Russia With Love, one of the best Bond movies ever. From Paris With Love isn't among the best of anything, but it definitely corners the market on the worst. Staring John Travolta with shaved head and badass attitude left over from The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, this clanking bore of a movie teams Travolta's gun-crazy CIA agent with Jonathan Rhys Meyers' tight-assed desk jockey who wants in on the special ops action. Peter Travers reviews From Paris with Love in his weekly video podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers." Director Pierre Morel tries to duplicate the B-movie tension he instilled in last year's Taken with Liam Neeson going medieval on the nether regions of bad guys hellbent on selling his daughter into white slavery.... Rating: 1 Star
(Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:57:37 PST)

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Starring: Review: This shameless tearjerker is Hollywood's alternative assault on Super Bowl weekend. Translation: While guys grunt and stuff their faces in front of large-screen TVs, women will line up to luxuriate in a bubblebath made from essence of Nicholas Sparks. You know who Sparks is, the guy who writes bestselling weepies that become appalling movies, such as The Notebook, Message in a Bottle and Nights in Rodanthe. The newest Sparks is Dear John, about soldier John (Channing Tatum), on leave from Special Forces to visit his hermit, coin-collecting dad (Richard Jenkins) in South Carolina. Peter Travers reviews Dear John in his weekly video podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers." Of course John meets a girl, she's Savannah and played by the lovely Amanda Seyfried. To... Rating: 1 Star
(Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:53:26 PST)

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Starring: Steve Buscemi, Sarah Silverman, Emmanuelle Chriqui Review: Just looking at hangdog Steve Buscemi and perky Sarah Silverman as mismatched lovers is a kick. What a comedy team these two virtuosos of the comically perverse could have made if they weren?t stuck in the shambles that is Saint John of Las Vegas. First-time director and screenwriter Hue Rhodes shows no discernible talent for dialogue, humor and, especially, pacing. For a movie than runs a mere 85 minutes, Saint John moves like a life sentence in molasses prison. Peter Travers reviews Saint John of Las Vegas in his weekly video podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers." Buscemi plays John Alighieri (same last name as Dante?s), a gambling junkie trying to take the cure by taking a nowhere job in an insurance company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Just as he?s settling into an... Rating: 1.5 Stars
(Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:28:24 PST)

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Starring: Mel Gibson, Bojana Novakovic Review: Mel gibson?s return to acting (it?s been eight years since Signs) is a welcome sight. His performance as Tom Craven, a Boston homicide detective whose 24-year-old daughter (Bojana Novakovic) is shotgun- executed before his eyes, shows his movie-star shine hasn?t dimmed. (Peter Travers reviews Edge of Darkness in his weekly video podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers.") The years of boozing and accusations of anti- Semitism have left Gibson, 54, looking thicker and worry- creased. But his acting has deepened. Too bad his comeback vehicle springs so many leaks. Edge of Darkness, the Americanization for short attention spans of the awardwinning British miniseries from 1985, is a mixed bag even with the same director, Casino Royale?s Martin Campbell. The... Rating: 2.5 Stars
(Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:18:40 PST)

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Starring: Ray Winstone, Ian McShane Review: It sounded good: a bunch of foulmouthed geezers taking bloody revenge on the French lover boy (Melvil Poupaud) who stole the wife (Joanne Whalley) of their car-salesman mate (Ray Winstone). With the acting power of Ian McShane, Stephen Dillane, Tom Wilkinson and John Hurt joining Winstone in a swearing challenge that could make David Mamet blush, 44 Inch Chest had the makings of the next Sexy Beast, since it shares the same screenwriters, Louis Mellis and David Scinto. But unlike Beast director Jonathan Glazer, Malcolm Venville coaches his ace acting team to ring infinite variations on the word "cunt" without realizing that there's a difference between exposing misogyny and crassly exploiting it. Get more news, reviews and interviews from Peter Travers on The Travers Take. Rating: 1 Star
(Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:18:07 PST)

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Starring: Review: This one means well, a kiss-of-death review if there ever was one. Paul Bettany takes an earnest shot at playing Charles Darwin, a 19th-century man obsessed with monkeys, the origin of the species, the death of his favorite daughter and the disapproval of his religious wife (Jennifer Connelly). In other words, director Jon Amiel has reduced a crucial moment in science to a Lifetime weepie about a workaholic who needs personal tragedy to wake him up to his wife's virtues. The fact that Bettany and Connelly are married in real life adds surprisingly little zest. What provocation there is comes in the still-­timely debate between science and faith that sneaks in from the sidelines when the tear-jerking momentarily abates. Get more news, reviews and interviews from Peter Travers on The... Rating: 2 Stars
(Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:16:54 PST)

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