Thursday, February 9, 2012

Talking Pictures: 'The Vow' | 'Safe House' | 'Journey 2' | 'W.E.'

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'The Vow': Foggy on everything but the feelings -- ✭✭ 1/2
'The Vow' — ✭✭ 1/2
Foggy, except for the feelings

In this Chicago-set romance, Rachel McAdams plays a newly married School of the Art Institute student and sculptor whose husband, Leo (Channing Tatum), runs a fledgling recording studio. In the dreamiest, least painful slow-motion depiction possible, she is sent flying through a car windshield after their car gets rear-ended in a snowstorm.

'Safe House' a bumpy ride, with Denzel in the driver's seat -- ✭✭ 1/2 'Safe House' — ✭✭ 1/2
Denzel in the driver's seat

Denzel Washington saves this violence-filled CIA thriller with his vicious portrayal of an agent on the run.
'Journey 2' gets wasted in paradise -- ✭ 1/2 'Journey 2' — ✭ 1/2
Wasted in paradise

Take away the 3-D shots of berries bouncing off Dwayne Johnson's vibrating pecs, and you have a pretty scrawny experience.
Madonna's 'W.E.' all dressed up, going nowhere -- ✭ 1/2 'W.E.' — ✭ 1/2
Dressed up, going nowhere

They split in 2008, but Madonna stayed married to director Guy Ritchie long enough to absorb his most grating cinematic instincts.
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