Weekend Movie Reviews by Bruce Kantor

Crazy Stupid Love

Cal (Steve Carrell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) are an old married couple who got married right out of high school. Now in their mid 40’s Emily tells Cal over dinner that she wants a divorce. She admits to having slept with a co worker David Lindhagen, (Kevin Bacon) Cal is [...]

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Movie Review Win Win:

Paul Giammati is one of the finest character actors in films today. He always looks like someone you know. In Win Win he stars as a middle aged attorney in a small town in New Jersey. He has troubles making ends meet as an attorney and works as [...]

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The Rite Movie Review

Anthony Hopkins and Colin O’Donoghue. This is The Exorcist revisited. Colin O’Donoghue is a young man who enters the priesthood. Prior to taking his final vows he has a crisis of belief wondering if he really is seriously committed to the calling as a priest. He is offered [...]

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The Roommate Movie Review

Starring Minja Kelly and Leighton Meester. Whenever Hollywood runs low on movie plots, they go into the archives of old movies and redo it. Such is the case here. Single White Female was a film in 1992 about a psychotic roommate. In the new version, Sarah-Leighton Meester is [...]

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True Grit Movie Review

A young woman (Hailey Steinfeld) seeks out a dirty US Marshall (Jeff Bridges) to find and bring to trial her father’s killer (Josh Brolin). This film is a real winner. Hailey Steinfeld steals the film and I would predict she has a big career ahead of her. Jeff [...]

Movie Reviews By Bruce Kantor | Little Fockers | How Do you Know

Little Fockers Movie Review

Usually a sequel becomes rather long in the tooth the third time around however the Little Fockers still has the zing that makes this franchise so popular. You do not have to have seen the first two, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers to appreciate this newest [...]

Movie Reviews By Bruce Kantor | Love And Other Drugs | The Next 3 Days

Love And Other Drugs Movie Review

Jamie, Jake Gyllenhall, becomes a pharmaceutical salesman calling on doctors. He represents Zoloft an anti depressive medication in tight competition with Prozac and is having a good time going out with free loving women. He meets Maggie, Anne Hathaway, a young woman suffering from early onset [...]

Movie Reviews By Bruce Kantor | You Again | Conviction

You Again Movie Review

Kristen Bell stars as a young woman tormented in high school by one girl in particular. She graduates from college and becomes a successful public relations person. She is working in Los Angeles and goes to her home in a small California to meet her brother’s fiance who [...]

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Red Movie Review

RED in CIA terms means Retired and Extremely Dangerous. Bruce Willis is a retired CIA agent living in Cleveland who discovered that there are people out to kill him. Scene one: In the middle of the night he goes down stairs and finds four people dressed in black and [...]

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Get Low Movie Review

Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black and Gerald McRamey. This film is based upon a true life experience.

Robert Duvall plays Felix Bush a man who forty years earlier became a reclusive hermit. He is the butt of speculation and rumor. Getting on in age, [...]

Movie Reviews By Bruce Kantor. The Expendables | The Switch

The Expendables Movie Review

The Expendables starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews, Let Li, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, “Stone Cole” Steve Austin, Eric Roberts with cameos from Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. A group of mercenaries are hired to take out the president of an opium producing island. The [...]

Bruce Kantor’s Movie Reviews | Charlie St. Cloud | The Other Guys

Charlie St. Cloud Movie Review

Charlie St. Cloud stars teen heart throb handsome Zac Efron in the title role. A high school senior with a passion for sailing and good grades, he graduates with a full ride sailing scholarship to Stanford. He lives in a sea coast town in Massachusetts. He and [...]

Ballantyne Scoop Movie Reviews | Grownups | Toy Story 3

Grownups Movie Review

A group of five men, friends since elementary school, get together with their families at a large lake house following the funeral of their middle school basketball coach. Adam Sandler co wrote the film as a family story minus a lot of the inane humor and language of his [...]

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Karate Kid Movie Review

Dre Parker played by Jaden Smith is a 12 year old who finds himself in Beijing China when his mother is suddenly transferred from Detroit. The first day in a strange city he is confronted by bullies who, by using kung fu, beat him up. The bullying continues [...]

Movie Review | Letters To Juliet

Letters to Juliet Movie Review

Letters to Juliet: Stars Amanda Seyfield, Chris Egan, Gael Garcia Bernal and Venessa Redgrave.

Sophie (Amanda) is engaged to Victor (Gael) She works as a fact checker at New Yorker Magazine and he is working on opening an Italian Restaurant in New York City. They decide [...]