Thursday, November 3, 2011

Talking Pictures: 'Tower Heist' | 'Like Crazy' | 'A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas' | 'Le Havre' | 'Son of No One'

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'Tower Heist': Comedy of comeuppance
'Tower Heist' — 3 stars
Comedy of comeuppance

A cast that includes Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller and Matthew Broderick cashes in via a '70s-style crime caper.

'Like Crazy': Felicity Jones wins hearts in Internet-age love story — 3 stars 'Like Crazy' — 3 stars
Felicity Jones wins hearts

Love is an endlessly renewable resource, yet the fuel's so seldom used wisely.
'Harold & Kumar Christmas': Stoner comedy sequel shows the buzz is gone — 1 1/2 stars 'Harold/Kumar Christmas' — 1 1/2
Buzz is gone from sequel

Comic effrontery is the Bic that lights the bong in this series, but willfully strained outrageousness can turn sour like that.
Finnish director turns up the warmth, for a change, in 'Le Havre' -- 3 1/2 stars 'Le Havre' — 3 1/2 stars
Finnish director warms up

This utopian dream of a comedy is set in the Normandy port city of the title, a location and its citizenry rendered in fairy tale strokes.
'The Son of No One': Hodgepodge cast cannot keep urban drama afloat — 1 1/2 stars 'The Son of No One' — 1 1/2 stars
Cast can't save urban drama

Writer-director Dito Montiel shoots mostly blanks in the hokey cop melodrama whose half-dozen stars amazingly emerge unscathed.
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