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Review: Horrible Bosses

Overplayed quirks
After two comedies, it's clear Seth Gordon is good at making . . . documentaries.
By BRETT MICHEL | July 12, 2011

Alert social services: this movie is an exercise in abuse
Has Jennifer Aniston's career gone so far off track that she needs to slum in this year's Dennis Dugan–directed Adam Sandler vehicle?
By BRETT MICHEL | February 15, 2011

Review: The Switch

Possibly the best sperm-donor comedy of the year?
The set-up alone has some of the funniest semen humor since There's Something About Mary .
By PETER KEOUGH | August 23, 2010

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Review: The Bounty Hunter

Dreadful, handcuffed to derivative
A bounty hunter chasing down Uncle Sam on the Fourth of July?
By BRETT MICHEL | March 23, 2010

Silly season

Spring pimps for summer
Now that the Oscars are over, let's get dumb.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 09, 2010

Review: Love Happens

Melodrama also happens
Half an hour into the screening of this tearjerker from Brandon Camp, three women exited. They made the right choice.
By BRETT MICHEL | September 23, 2009

Review: Management

Logic checks out
With a tip of the name badge to Norman Bates, a mama's boy of a motel manager hooks up with an emotionally stunted executive for a romance that's stiffer than a Radisson bedspread.
By ALICIA POTTER | May 13, 2009

Firing back

A girl's best friend is her yogurt
"Yogurt is the official food of women." Or so enthuses TV writer Sarah Haskins in her sarcastic three-minute video "Target Women: Yogurt Edition."
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | March 26, 2009

Review: He's Just Not That Into You

Reduces both men and women to shrill stereotypes
And why isn't he? Could it be because you're needy, nagging, and possibly psychotic?
By PETER KEOUGH | February 04, 2009

Review: Marley & Me

Banal entertainment
Will Jennifer Aniston ever get a good film role?
By BRETT MICHEL | December 23, 2008

Can classical be underground?

Portsmouth's Navona Records releases an indie aesthetic for orchestra
At least one of the reasons many of us contemporary-music fans don't get into classical music is because it seems like no one wants us to listen to it.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 14, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Dan Hirshon

We put a visiting comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
Marriages don’t always turn out the way you think they’re going to. Make sure you have a way out of it if things don’t go as planned.
By SARAH FAITH ALTERMAN | May 13, 2008

Dance, monkey: Angelo Tsarouchas

We put a visiting comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
I apologize for the War of 1812. And for Celine Dion.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | December 18, 2007

Colbie Caillat

Coco | Universal
This singer-songwriter is part of an emerging breed of Billboard-climbing folk-pop babes using YouTube and MySpace to build a devoted audience from the hard drive up.
By MIKAEL WOOD | October 30, 2007

Can Britney rise again?

It’s tough to be a celebrity on the skids, but even a ‘ticking time-bomb’ can stage a convincing comeback
The first movie star was a woman named Florence Lawrence.
By SHARON STEEL | October 18, 2007

Cinemania

The 11th annual Rhode Island International Film Festival
It may be in Little Rhody, but the 11th Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival is the biggest film festival in New England.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | July 31, 2007

Media monstrosities

Oddities and ephemera from the week gone by
On April 23, MIT sophomore David Sheets cataloged Web sites that can’t be reached on Boston’s free wireless network due to a screwy filtering program.
By ADAM REILLY | April 25, 2007

The Ultimate Gift

Pretty hoky stuff
Stingy are the rich, as we know from Ebenezer Scrooge and even Bill Gates before he became a crusading philanthropist.
By TOM MEEK | March 14, 2007

Feel-bad cinema

Gerald Peary's year in movies
This critic's been carping for decades about feel-good cinema, how lousy it makes me feel, and this year I got the misery I begged for.
By GERALD PEARY | December 21, 2006

The Break-up

Vaughniston outshined by real estate
Those of us accustomed to Boston-scale apartments will at once appreciate what The Break-Up has to offer: the condo.
By BROOKE HOLGERSON | June 07, 2006

Puffy piece

Sitting down with the Chair man and woman
Why no festival excitement at Sundance for Jay Duplass’s endearing road comedy, The Puffy Chair with its comely, talented, camera-comfortable leads?
By GERALD PEARY | June 02, 2006

Apocalypse now and then

Doom, damnation, and other summer fun
With Snakes on a Plane and World Trade Center opening on the same day, this summer won’t be offering the usual escapist fare.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 03, 2006

Friends with Money

Indie filmmaker avoids preachiness and formula
After Walking and Talking and Lovely and Amazing , bright and ambitious indie filmmaker Nicole Holofcener focuses on the root of all evil, Friends with Money .
By PETER KEOUGH | April 05, 2006

Seasonal adjustment

Hollywood springs back
After weeks of tormenting audiences with gems like Failure To Launch and The Shaggy Dog , Hollywood seems ready to shake off the Oscar doldrums and unveil its spring collection.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 07, 2006

Wish list

106 things the Phoenix wants to see in 2006
[1] An MBTA Red Line station without a broken escalator. [2] Someone in the White House who at least pretends we’re still looking for Osama.
By | October 27, 2008

37. John Mayer

SOCIAL NETJERKING
You know your stock has fallen when the Star , that bastion of serious journalism, claims that Jennifer Aniston broke up with you because you Twitter too damn much. That’s what Mayer gets for relentlessly spewing nonsense in 140-characters-or-less bursts. And let this be a lesson to all you 40404-fiends: if you’re gonna tell a lady you’re “too busy,” make sure you’re not simultaneously thumbing shit like “ Life is like walking through a funhouse. It’s dark, people are pushing, and you can’t turn around ” onto the Internet. Not just because it’s pathetic. Because she’s following you, dickweed.
By | March 25, 2009