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'Cop Out'
"Cop Out" is a buddy cop film in which one of the cops continually quotes dialogue espoused by fictional cops, in everything from "Heat" to "RoboCop," and not once is it funny. The film winks at the audience for 110 minutes. Tracy Morgan plays the...Tags: Kevin Smith, Kevin Pollak, Bruce Willis, Cop Out (movie), Eddie Murphy
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Show time at the Wilder
Times Staff WriterThe UCLA Film & Television Archive's new venue, the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, officially opens Friday with a screening of the Oscar-winning 1960 Wilder classic "The Apartment." Two days later, the archive kicks off its "Art of Light"...Tags: Sting, Roberto Rossellini, Robert Altman, Arthur Penn, Drama (genre)
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'The Man'
Times Staff WriterGiven the state of digital effects, it seems entirely possible that the lame action-comedy "The Man," starring Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy, was assembled from bits cut from the actors' previous movies. That's not to imply they phoned in their...Tags: Samuel L. Jackson, Movies, Eugene Levy, Entertainment, Robert De Niro
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Movie review: 'Gigli'
Chicago Tribune Movie Writer1 star (out of 4) "Gigli" rhymes with "really," we're told twice in the movie of the same name, and it begins with a "zs" sound, as in "Zsa Zsa." It's the last name of Ben Affleck's dese-dem-dose thug character, Larry Gigli. People mispronounce it. He...Tags: Jennifer Lopez, Lainie Kazan, Lenny Venito, Pat Boone, Christopher Walken
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Meet Joe Black
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 13, 1998 Death takes a holiday in "Meet Joe Black," but does that mean everyone else has to slow down? The fanciful story of what happens when the original Big Chill takes human form and investigates life on Earth, "Meet Joe...Tags: Marcia Gay Harden, Jake Weber, Jeffrey Tambor, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani
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5 films starring Al Pacino
1. SCARFACE (Brian DePalma, Oliver Stone; 1983) 3 1/2 stars This one's first because Pacino's reading of crazed druglord Tony Montana came to define his acting style for subsequent films -- moody, with arms flailing. DePalma turns everything up -- the...Tags: Chicago Tribune, DVDs and Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, David Mamet, Oliver Stone
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5 films with top performances by Al Pacino
1. The Godfather Trilogy (Francis Ford Coppola; 1972, '74, '90) 4 stars One of the great achievements in American movies. The first film, based on Mario Puzo's novel and starring Marlon Brando, began the saga of Don Corleone and his family, romanticizing...Tags: Sidney Lumet, Ed Harris, Bank Robbery, Ashley Judd, Al Pacino
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Top winners from 1992
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Robert Downey Jr. as Charles Chaplin in CHAPLIN Carolco Productions; TriStar Clint Eastwood as Bill Munny in UNFORGIVEN Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade...Tags: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Chaplin, Judy Davis, Susan Sarandon, Clint Eastwood
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5 films that are the funniest from 'Saturday Night Live' alumni
1. NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (John Landis; 1978) 3 stars The prime model for all the sexed-up anti-establishment college comedies and gross-out gagfests that followed: John Belushi as the king animal of outlaw fraternity Delta House, a band of...Tags: Harold Ramis, Judge Reinhold, Julie Hagerty, Dennis Hopper, John Landis
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5 films that are great non-Scorses/Coppola-directed Robert De Niro movies
1. THE LAST TYCOON (Elia Kazan; 1976) 3 1/2 stars Kazan and writer Harold Pinter make a curiously cool but intelligent movie of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last, uncompleted novel -- about sophisticated Hollywood studio boss Monroe Stahr (played by Robert De...Tags: Christopher Walken, Elizabeth McGovern, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Jack Nicholson
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