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Movie review engine Rotten Tomatoes is adding a level of verification to demonstrate that audience reviews come from actual ticket buyers. Starting with movies released today, users can opt in to get their rating and review marked "verified" as long as they bought their movie ticket on Fandango, the NBCUniversal-owned…

Continuing an impressive run of performances in indie films, Richard Gere is simply terrific in Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer, the original title when it premiered at last fall’s Telluride and Toronto film festivals, but now just shortened to Norman. But don’t think this role was…

Lost in a long and sleepy holiday weekend’s ennui, we couldn’t help ourselves: We’ve pulled together lines culled from the funniest/worst movie reviews so far this year, pulling out some jewels. Here’s what we came up with: Tammy (Opened July 2, 27% Rotten Tomatoes Score) Melissa McCarthy‘s film sees her once again…

UPDATE: Sources tell me that Paramount’s The Last Airbender opened to $16+M Thursday, including the $3 million from its midnight shows. The pic based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series should be on its way to $60M for the 5-day July Fourth Holiday and a shot at 2nd place. Hard to believe but there’s another movie…

After some initial good press, there were boos as well as applause for the only American movie In Competition at its first screening at Cannes. Critics here feel it's too conventional to be a Palme d’Or winner. One reviewer expressed surprise it was even included. That said, there is no clear frontrunner so far for…

UK reviews on Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps have come in after its Cannes debut. "Utterly gripping. It's been 23 years but it was worth the wait," says London tabloid the Daily Mirror. “A return to form for all involved." Baz Bamigoye in the rival Daily Mail says the movie is packed full of great…

UPDATE: ‘Robin Hood’ Opens To $6M In 3 Countries The 63rd Cannes Film Festival opened with Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. Stars Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett (but not…

BREAKING NEWS! So much for the accuracy of tracking. There’s obviously huge online curioisty about James Cameron’s 3-D latest. The Hollywood Reporter‘s glowing early review of Avatar released just now has crashed the trade paper’s website because of a Drudge Report pickup. The Times of London, KTLA’s Sam Rubin, and…

There was an audience screening at noon Cannes Time. Great reaction from the general audience with a huge ovation. But the reviews range from good, to mixed, to really rotten. The real question is how Inglourious Basterds will do at the box office when it opens in August and how it will affect Quentin…

Few journalists have covered George W Bush for as long or as in depth as The Dallas Morning News‘ senior political writer Wayne Slater who was at the epicenter of Dubya’s two campaigns for Texas governor, his tenure in Austin, and both his runs for the U.S. presidency. He also is the co-author of two books on Bush’s…

The long respected film critic really stepped in it this week when he wrote a long negative review of a movie without revealing until the very end that he only saw the beginning of a 99-minute film before he stopped watching. (Ebert wrote at the finish of his critique: “The rating only applies to the first eight…

  You may recall that last year the Israeli Academy of Motion Pictures chose The Band's Visit as the country's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar only to see it disqualified by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for having too much English dialogue. The runner-up, Beaufort, then became the first…