THE SWITCH stars Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman .

By SANDRA OLMSTED

In the The Switch, which is more worth seeing for the acting than the predictable, more-sweet-than-funny story, Jennifer Aniston (The Bounty Hunter) imbues Kassie with her mature, everywoman charm which adds much to the film.  However, since the first images are of Jason Bateman (Couples Retreat), the audience knows it is not Aniston’s character, but Bateman’s, which is central to the story.

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By Sandra Olmsted

In the guise of a buddy-cop action parody, executive producer Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay make the villain a Wall Street investment guru in order to focus on the US financial crisis. Ferrell and McKay remind the audiences of what is wrong with the financial sector; however, how well audiences like this movie might well be determined by whom they blame for the crisis.  It would also help if the moviegoers were males with pubescent streaks that need to be fed nonsensical humor.

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Evelyn Salt, Angelina Jolie proves she has the chops to be a James Bond-esque action star because her new film Salt uses less CGI and more real stunts.

Salt:  A Sodium-Rich, Highly-Processed Tidbit

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Steve Carell (left) is the voice of Gru, the villian in Despicable Me who tries to steal the moon in this animated film.

By Maggie Scott

Steve Carell adds to his considerable comedy resume with a multi-dimensional voice-over portrayal of the character Gru in Universal Pictures’ three-dimensional animated comedy, Despicable Me.

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Knight and Day, directed by James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma), has a number of good qualities to recommend it, but an important message and studied character development are not among the film’s attributes.  However, the film has its charms.

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The A-Team:  Pity the Fool Who Expects Too Much!

By Sandra Olmsted

Rarely does adapting a television series to the big screen work, but the new version of Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell’s series, The A-Team, does. That’s because writer/director Joe Carnahan (Smokin’ Aces) and writers Brian Bloom (debut) and Skip Woods (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) connect with the spirit of the original and translate that spirit into excesses and excitement large enough to fill a movie theater.

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The Sex in the City gal pals are back, this time visiting Abu Dhabi in Sex in the City 2.

Sex in the City 2 : Pushing The Limits of Fantasy

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Russell Crowe is Robin Longstride before he became Robin Hood in new epic film from Universal.

By Maggie Scott

It’s not just the legendary man of Sherwood Forest who’s launching target-piercing arrows in Robin Hood, legendary director (Alien) Ridley Scott’s rousing historical action/adventure.  Cupid manages to hit the bulls eye to help a solemn archer who’s seen too much of medieval warfare find his heart’s desire, a fight he can believe in and a birthright worth dying for.

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