| Starring: Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick, Jr. Review: This crap is supposed to be the chick flick antidote to Super Bowl fever. Ha! The thudding sounds you hear at New In Town are jokes landing like lead balloons and conking the life out of the actors. Director Jonas Elmer shares the script's anvil touch. Renee Zellweger stars as Lucy Hill, a spike-heeled, spikier-tempered Miami executive terminator assigned to downsize a food-manufacturing plant in snowy Minnesota. Get the contrast? No sooner does Harry Connick, Jr. show up as Ted Mitchell, the union rep for said plant, then you know 
Movie review: ‘Wendy and Lucy’ is eerily timelyby Mick LaSalle January 29th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Wendy and Lucy: Drama. Starring Michelle Williams, Wally Dalton and Will Patton. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. (R. 80 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Movies have a funny way sometimes of knowing the future. The latest example is "Wendy...
Movie review: ‘Taken’ keeps on givingby Mick LaSalle January 29th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Taken: Action thriller. Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Olivier Rabourdin. Directed by Pierre Morel. (PG-13. 94 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters,...
Movie review: ‘The Pope’s Toilet’by Walter Addiego January 29th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
RATING: (SNOOZING VIEWER) The Pope's Toilet: Comedy-drama. Starring César Troncoso, Virginia Méndez and Virginia Ruiz. Written and directed by César Charlone and Enrique Fernández. In Spanish with English subtitles. (Not rated. 97 minutes. Presented by the...
Movie review: ‘The Uninvited’by Peter Hartlaub January 29th, 2009 | Movie Reviews
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) The Uninvited: Horror. Starring Emily Browning, David Strathairn and Elizabeth Banks. Directed by Charles and Thomas Guard. (PG-13. 87 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Some of us older than 30 remember when horror filmmakers made...
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