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Owen Gleiberman

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Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW.

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Movie Review Sound Of My Voice
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 25, 2012

Even if you know a lot about cults, there's a mystery at the heart of cult psychology that is singular in its creepiness. And that's…

Movie Review The Five-Year Engagement
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 25, 2012

Romantic comedies, it has often been said, end just as the truly interesting drama of love — at least in real life — is beginning.…

Movie Review The Broken Tower
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 25, 2012

If you've been curious about James Franco's career as a grad student, you now have the chance to see his 2011 New York University master's…

Movie Review Safe
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 25, 2012

Jason Statham, with his beady-eyed, I'll-die-harder-than-Bruce-Willis magnetism, has spent his career walking the line between being an accomplished A-list actor and a pitiless B-movie ruffian.…

Movie Review The Lucky One
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 18, 2012

The Lucky One marks the latest attempt to turn Zac Efron into a major dreamboat movie star, and more than ever, he looks the part.…

Movie Review The Three Stooges
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 12, 2012

When people think of the Three Stooges — the poked eyeballs, smashed noggins, and yanked nostrils; the boink! plonk! and clang! sound effects; the snarling…

Movie Review Think Like a Man
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 11, 2012

If anything can make you long for the hang-loose 1970s, it's the prospect of looking for love in an era when dating is governed by…

Movie Review Marley
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 11, 2012

Though I own a few of his albums and have seen countless clips of him over the decades, I've always felt that I didn't know…

Movie Review Darling Companion
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 11, 2012

Diane Keaton, with her trademark nervous giggle-fit overacting, plays Beth, who deeply resents her surgeon husband. The strange thing is, his only crime appears to…

Inside Movies 'Titanic' is a great film. It's also the movie that gave rise to hater culture
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 09, 2012 09:50 AM

James Cameron's Titanic is one of the most successful movies of all time, and I have no problem saying that it's also one of the...

Movie Review Titanic 3D
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 04, 2012

James Cameron, in  Avatar , is the one American filmmaker — at least to my eyes — who has truly knocked the 3-D ball out…

Movie Review American Reunion
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 04, 2012

Back in 1999, American Pie was a pretty funny comedy of horny youth anxiety. But it was also a sweet slice of teenage B-movie nostalgia…

Movie Review Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
by Owen Gleiberman | Apr 04, 2012

When I heard Morgan Spurlock had made a documentary called Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope , I figured I knew what to expect: the…

Movie Review Wrath of the Titans
by Owen Gleiberman | Mar 29, 2012

Everything is on fire in Wrath of the Titans . Sam Worthington, as the mighty Perseus (otherwise known as the dude who slayed the Kraken),…

Movie Review Bully
by Owen Gleiberman | Mar 28, 2012

Harvey Weinstein never met a ratings controversy that he couldn't massage into a publicity campaign. He did it in the '90s, when he turned up…

Movie Review Gerhard Richter Painting
by Owen Gleiberman | Mar 28, 2012

The German artist Gerhard Richter creates explosive psychedelic canvases in dense improvised layers. He's like a slow-motion action painter, using a giant homemade squeegee to…

Movie Review Goon
by Owen Gleiberman | Mar 28, 2012

Seann William Scott has spent his career projecting a certain goofy dumb puppy-dog sweetness. That persona has become a bit of a trap for him,…

Movie Review Jiro Dreams Of Sushi
by Owen Gleiberman | Mar 23, 2012

What's the greatest sushi restaurant in the world? According to many in Japan (not to mention the Michelin Guide), it's a modest little hole-in-the-wall sushi…

Movie Review 4:44 Last Day On Earth
by Owen Gleiberman | Mar 21, 2012

In Abel Ferrara's unsensational, almost intentionally humdrum countdown to the end of the world (the last vestiges of the ozone layer are set to evaporate…

Movie Review The Raid: Redemption
by Owen Gleiberman | Mar 21, 2012

Imagine that you're a child of thrill-kill videogames and other forms of pop culture gruesomeness, and you sit down to watch a classic kung fu…