CW10 Beaumont Movie Reviews

'Scott Pilgrim' offers a high-energy mix

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

This is going to sound like blasphemy — especially to the film's target audience — but here goes: "Scott Pilgrim vs.

 

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'Animal Kingdom' an intense thriller

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

We know we're in for a different kind of family values early in "Animal Kingdom" — right off the top, actually — as we watch a teenager sitting next to his passed-out mother on the couch while some inane game show blares on the television in the background.

 

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'Eat Pray Love' will satisfy fans

ByCHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

"Eat Pray Love" does exactly what it should to satisfy its core audience: It provides a gorgeous escape, exquisitely photographed and full of female wish fulfillment.

 

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Stallone's nostalgia, 'The Expendables'

BY JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

"The Expendables" is an exercise in nostalgia for the bygone era of muscly, macho action films.

 

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Fur flies with the jokes in 'Cats & Dogs'

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

Dogs and cats, living together .

 

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Duvall and Co. fly high with 'Get Low'

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

Robert Duvall looks great as a grizzled old coot, while Bill Murray makes a mighty fine funeral director.

 

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'Toy Story 3' doesn't shine quite as brightly

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Critic

This is what happens when you're good at your job: Everyone expects excellence from you, and anything even slightly short of that feels like a letdown.

 

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'Cyrus' delivers extremely Oedipal humor

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

The romantic charmer "Cyrus" works in spite of — and maybe a bit because of — two physical mismatches audiences are asked to accept in this story of a suitor stymied by the extreme Oedipal complex of his girlfriend's kid.

 

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