Movie Reviews

Oscars Predictions: Kidnapped
Popcorn Column by Michael S. Goldberger Warner Brothers Film critic Michael Goldberger predicts 'Argo' will take the honor for Best Motion Picture of the Year. Dear Reader, If this, my annual Oscars
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'A Good Day to Die Hard': And the Sooner the Better
Popcorn Column by Michael S. Goldberger Twentieth Century Fox Films 'Bruce Willis stars in the fifth installment of the Die Hard series. In this brave new world, even a meditation on healing the rift between workaholic dad
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'Warm Bodies': Zombie Tale for Diehards Only
Popcorn Column by Michael S. Goldberger Summit Entertainment 'Warm Bodies' offers an unusual tale of love amidst the zombie apocalypse. "To be dead...to be really dead, is...glorious!" Thus spake Count Dracula
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'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters': Double, Double Toil and Rubble
Popcorn Column by Michael S. Goldberger Paramount Pictures The 'Hansel & Gretel' fairy tale continues in the future, where the duo now bounty hunts witches. Fuddy-duddies like me who see movies like "Hansel
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'Gangster Squad': An Offer You Can Refuse
Popcorn Column by Michael S. Goldberger Warner Bros. Pictures Sean Penn stars as Los Angeles gangster Mickey Cohen in Ruben Fleischer's 'Gangster Squad.' A typical shoot em' up, director Ruben Fleischer's
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'Zero Dark Thirty': Like Clockwork
Popcorn Column by Michael S. Goldberger Columbia Pictures Jessica Chastain plays a CIA agent known as Maya in Kathryn Bigelow's film 'Zero Dark Thirty.' I figured it would be tense and exciting. I knew Mark
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'Promised Land': Goes Over Old Ground
Popcorn Column by Michael S. Goldberger Focus Features Matt Damon plays the role of Steve Butler, a salesman for the gas company Global. Until some economic genius invents a great solution or we humans evolve considerably, the
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'Les Miserables': There but For the Grace...
Popcorn Column by Michael S. Goldberger Universal Pictures Russell Crowe stars as a police officer in Les Miserables. Great literature, superb filmmaking and a thoroughly heart-rending immersion into one of
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'The Guilt Trip': Guilty With an Explanation
Popcorn Column by Michael S. Goldberger Paramount Pictures Seth Rogan and Barbra Streisand participate in the mother-son comedy 'The Guilt Trip,' directed by Anne Fletcher. I hope the North Central Film Critic
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'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey': And a Long One, Too
Popcorn Column by Michael S. Goldberger Warner Brothers 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' follows the adventure of Bilbo Baggins (played by Martin Freeman). If you promised that, in some distant future, the Grim
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