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The Yes Men Fix the World
These anti-corporate pranksters strike again.
"...the Yes Men, they are a pair of drolly indefatigable, anti-corporate pranksters whose ongoing efforts to expose and ridicule..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Life in Ruins
Nia Vardalos, who hit pay dirt with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is on shakier ground with this clichéd story about an American tourist guide in Greece.
"...the phenomenal success she experienced with 2002’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is again backed by the Playtone Productions..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dance Flick
The next generation of the Wayans clan delivers one more spoof – this time of dance movies.
"...it (to sum up: You can’t go wrong with fat people and spontaneous expulsions of the bodily kind), the..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Everlasting Moments
Swedish master Jan Troell's period drama tells the story of a woman who learns new ways to see herself and her life as she discovers the art of photography.
"...Ooms and Emil Jensen. Leisurely unfolding, much like a fat novel, this turn-of-the-century Swedish drama has a warm, enveloping..."

April 17, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Boot Camp Challenge: Week One
If Barack Obama can become president, I can certainly lose 16 pounds in six weeks
"...am informed that the first day will entail getting body-fat measurements and then running a timed mile. Wuh-huh? A..."

Jan. 24, 2009 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

College
New frat-house comedy is timed for the new semester.
"...and Morris (Bell, Caldwell, and Covais playing the "normal," "fat," and "nerd" archetypes) head off to explore the fabled..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All
The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?
"...and go down yonder in Georgia and tell my father that I’m way over here crawling in these trench..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Baby Mama
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler skewer motherhood but make sure that nothing gets terribly burnt.
"...for the high road but for the great, big, fat, juicy, unchallenging, uncontroversial middle ground, where everybody’s laughing but..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Meet the Spartans
The working title says it all: Not Another Scary Epic Teen Date Movie.
"...of King Leonidas (Maguire) and his small army of fat boys and no-gooders vs. Xerxes (Borat's Davitian) and his..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Comebacks
A comedy spoof of inspirational sports films.
"...retirement to lead a group of lovable losers (the fat guy, the geek, the beautiful girl, the star quarterback..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Superbad
Cera and Hill are comic gold in this comedy, which is from the Judd Apatow stable and which has credits populated with refugees from Arrested Development.
"...always has flexibility. Still, sooner than he thinks, his fate is sealed with these fellas for better or worse;..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Movie Review by Shawn Badgley

Triad Election
When the time comes for an aging gangster godfather in Hong Kong to step down, a bloody battle for control ensues in this vivid story about thug life.
"...man Yam hasn’t crossed over to Hollywood like Chow Yun-Fat, but he’s no less an icon back home; here,..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Georgia Rule
Despite the presence of three acting powerhouses – Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, and Lindsay Lohan – this movie about three generations of "difficult" women never rings true.
"...and incongruous, leaping between the two modes like a fat frog jumping lily pads. The performances are all excellent,..."

May 11, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Norbit
The three personas Eddie Murphy adopts in this film literally fill the screen, but the script doesn't serve his multidimensional talents.
"...appreciate the vulgar pleasures of broad comedy, the ongoing fat joke in Norbit will likely strike you as misogynistic..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Employee of the Month
Assorted workers vie for the coveted title of "Employee of the Month."
"...Andy Dick as a blind eye doctor and enough fat/fart/gay jokes to outfit the next four National Lampoon vacations...."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shortbus
John Cameron Mitchell's sophomore film effort asserts – with great gusto and even a brass band – our universal right to sexual happiness.
"...queens or young butches or married or single or fat or weird or different. The quest for sexual happiness..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Quinceañera
Don't confuse this Sundance charmer with My Big Fat Mexican Debut, for its farcical scenes of high hair and waltzes form a genial, light-comic prism for watching race, age, class, and sexuality collide in one of America's most economically and ethnically complex cities.
"...fete; disagreements about a stretch Hummer limousine with her father (Castanos-Chima), a stern preacher at the storefront Echo Park..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Find Me Guilty
Like the criminal justice system it portrays, Find Me Guilty (starring Vin Diesel in the dramatic lead) ultimately works a great deal better than you might expect.
"...a waistline that makes him look more like a fat goombah than a buff action star, performs quite acceptably..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Date Movie
What's left to spoof? Why, romance movies, of course.
"...output. Ostensibly a parody of touchy-feely-quasi-comedies like My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Meet the Parents, Date Movie plays..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Momma's House 2
It's a shame to again witness Martin Lawrence squander his considerable comic talents under a fat suit and fake breasts in this shoddy sequel.
"...Martin Lawrence squander his considerable comic talents under a fat suit and fake breasts in this shoddy sequel. Big..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Annapolis
Annapolis is a thick but hardly meaty slice of old-school Hollywood hokum.
"...Loudmouth (Calderon), the Crusty Old Salt (Wahlberg), and the Fat Guy Who’s Doomed From the Start (Shannon). Much of..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ringer
A Farrelly brothers comedy that purports to have a message about treating the intellectually challenged as regular human beings and stars Johnny "Jackass" Knoxville is about as disingenuous as a comedy that urges us to see past a person’s body size to appreciate the beauty within and stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit.
"...the beauty within and stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit. Oh wait. That’s Shallow Hal, you say, and..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Asian Connection
"...high-profile Hong Kong-bred artists such as John Woo, Chow Yun-fat, Samo Hung, and Jackie Chan, movies like Asian Connection..."

Jan. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Mambo Italiano
Broad gay and Italian stereotypes mambo through this farce.
"...gay romantic comedy will be the next My Big Fat Greek Wedding. But saying it repeatedly doesn’t make it..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Notorious C.H.O.
"...Cho. Rrrrrrowrrr. She's funny, she's feisty, she's a flabulous, fat-positive “fag hag,” and Margaret Cho isn't apologizing for any..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Corky Romano
"...can only imagine were in desperate need of a fat paycheck. Peter Falk as Pops Romano? Peter Berg as..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Tao of Steve
Easygoing romantic comedy about an unlikely ladies' man.
"...Nineties (The Patriot, Blade). Here he plays Dex, a fat, vaguely misogynistic kindergarten teacher in Santa Fe who, despite..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

3 Strikes
"...around prison, gunplay, exotic dancing, viciously jealous women, horny fat women, and of course the old standby, fart jokes...."

March 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Superstar
"...Camryn Manheim dedicating her Emmy trophy to all the fat girls everywhere that Molly Shannon's popular Catholic schoolgirl character..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mighty Peking Man
This 1977 Shaw Brothers production from Hong Kong is a gleefully silly riff on everything monster movies and was re-released under the auspices of Quentin Tarantino in 1999.
"...a micro-cameo by an uncredited (and very young) Chow Yun-Fat. The fun begins when a corrupt exhibitor hears tell..."

April 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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